Anthony's Italian Recipe Visitor Photos! Part 2

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This is a section of the site where I will be posting photos emailed to me by visitors. Below are photos that visitors took while having a great time making the sauce. :-) Please feel free to submit any photos of your culinary experience while making or eating this sauce recipe and I will promptly get them up on the site! I would welcome them. It's great fun to see people enjoying the whole Italian cooking experience!

These photos were sent in by Forrest,

...coming to you from San Fransisco, California, USA

~ Thanks for the photos Forrest! :-)

Forrest found out that it's much better if you have friends over to make the sauce, especially when those friends are family!

There were four chefs in the kitchen to create the feast; Forrest in the Hawaiian shirt, his sister, his sister's son, and mama. This was a good team effort with chopping, stirring, mixing and singing! Way to go guys!!! It looks to me like your sharing the LOVE, and that's what Italian cooking is all about!

Click HERE for more photos of Forrest's cooking experience!

Dear Anthony,
I found your delicious recipe when wanting to make some homemade pasta sauce. Thank you for having the best recipe to follow and enjoy! It is perfect with the step-by-step. Thank you! I've made it twice by myself and then invited friends over, but I found out it's better if you have some friends helping you make it! And what better friends than family? So the Grimshaw family got together, turned up "Il Barbiere di Sivglia" (one of my favorites) we did it up!

Like I mention, I've tried it, preparing it in widening stages. The first time I made it, I had the chops and sausages. The last time I made it, we added the meatballs, and those have got to be THE BEST! High fives to you my friend! Still to conquer are the Braciole. That's something to look forward to! Thanks Anthony for giving us a good day of fun love and food!

Warm regards, Forrest

These photos were sent in by Phil,

...coming to you from Falkirk, Scotland, UK!

~ Thanks for the photos Phil! :-)

Ok, if your in the UK, this is what your paste and sauce is going to look like. Tomato paste comes in a tube like you see here, and what I call a can of tomato sauce looks like the Passata in a box as shown above. Thanks for taking this photo Phil, this will help with future explinations!

Here we have Phil's wife Karen, she was not afraid to be in the photo, Phil admittedly was afraid ;-) Phil says she came in at the eleventh hour to steel some of the glory, hmm.. should we believe him?

Auh... the end product, the bread, the sauce, the spaghetti... yum! The meat must be hiding somewhere, Phil appears to be hiding as well ;-)

...and here is Phil's son Thomas, pounding that braciole meat. Oh look, his shirt says "animal", that is an appropriate shirt to wear when your pounding the heck out of the braciole meat! This part really helps the braciole get tender, plus it's fun :-)

From what Phil told me, Thomas did most of the work! Good job Thomas!!! WooHoo! Looks great! You would my grandma proud!!

Click HERE for more photos of Phil's cooking experience!

Anthony,
Yep - Made the sauce and it was great!!! (did meatballs, porkchops and braciole as well) Took a few pics so will try and get them across to you tomorrow... A rather belated note with some pictures from the sauce making session (apols for not appearing myself - I hate getting my picture taken - My son Thomas did most of the work and then my wife Karen stepped in for some glory at the eleventh hour......). The recipe is great and well worth the effort. I'm sure we'll make this again all too soon.

I'm originally from Newcastle upon Tyne which is north east england, but for the last five years have lived in a place called Falkirk (about 15 miles west of Edinburgh, 20 miles east of Glasgow (two great cities) in Scotland. Haven't tried the Carolina / North Carolina areas where you are - maybe next year (as visiting a friend in Oz this year). I have previously been to 'New York, Boston, Washington, Florida, Vegas (Grand Canyon / Monument Valley), San Fran, Yosemite (great place) etc.... Too much to see and do. USA is a great country with great friendly people. Take it easy and thanks for the quick responses - Have a fab weekend

Regards - Phil

These photos were sent in by Linda,

...coming to you from Oklahoma, USA

~ Thanks for the photos Linda! :-)

Dear Anthony,
I am part Italian and part Czech but only now am I beginning to embrace my Italian culture since it was not so much a part of my life growing up in Oklahoma. Anyway, I have looked for the perfect authentic spaghetti sauce and meatballs and garlic bread recipes and I am very much looking forward to trying out your very detailed recipes. I hope to accomplish this even by this weekend. I am excited about it and I do appreciate all of your step by step instructions. Again thanks for your website. I'll let you know of my success!!! Linda

Hey Anthony,
As I wrote to you earlier, I made the spaghetti sauce and meatballs recently and now I will be making it again this next Saturday. After looking at your site today and seeing all the pictures sent in by other people who love your recipes, I have decided to not only make the spaghetti and meatballs but also try the braciole recipe. It is just that I have to make this perfectly as the guest I will be serving will be having great expectations and since I have never met them before I have to make a good first impression. They are actually in-laws that have not been so eager to meet me so you can imagine the stress that I will be under. Being part Italian I need to represent the Italian cooking very well. These people are used to eating at fine restaurants, eating on cruises etc. The pressure will be on........ I will let you know how it goes and this time I will take more pictures to send to you.

Thanks!, ~ Linda

These photos were sent in by Don,

...coming to you from San Jose, California, USA

~ Thanks for the photos Don! :-)

Here we have a nice leather bound 3-ring binder that Don made up from printing out most of the recipes from my site:-) Very inspiring! It is on my list to one day make a cookbook, this inspires me to get moving!

Step by step photos all printed up, recipes all tabbed and orginized. Very nice! i want one of these ;-) Well done Don!

Don has recently tackled the major task of making the Anessitte cookis and Peseta Bars? Oh... it looks like they came out just wonderful!!!!. Click the link just below here to see more photos from Don :-)

Auh, all the hard work really pays off in the end. Just look at that lovely pot of sauce! YUM! :-)

Anthony's Binder is already battle-tested with food stains during recipe prep.

Click HERE for more photos of Don's cooking experience!

Anthony,
I'll be making another batch of Anthony's pasta sauce this weekend and will take several digital photos of my Anthony's Binder (I call it my Italian bible). I place the binder on a small table in my kitchen, throw on a little Louie Prima on the jukebox then go to work. You will laugh when you see some of the photos because my Anthony's Binder is already battle-tested with food stains during recipe prep. The photos from your site printed beautifully even though they were low resolution. You will see them in the photos I email to you. By the way, what drew me to your site from the beginning was your hands-on illustrations. Most Internet cooking sites have few photos of recipe prep and contain just plain text recipes. You, however, guide the viewer through the entire recipe with your illustrations, which is exceptional. Your site is so different from the others because the viewer can feel the LOVE of Italian cooking jump right out at them from their computer! Don :)

Good morning Anthony,
Attached are photos of the 3-ring binder I made up from your website. It contains most of your recipes. It's right there in the kitchen every time I cook Italian and I depend on the step-by-step instructions and photos as a guide.Unfortunately I haven't yet developed the instincts of your grandma & mom ("a little of this & a little of that") so my "Bible" is indispensable! This past Saturday I made up a large batch of your famous pasta sauce and there's a photo of it here. Thanks again for all the help you've given me - it's greatly appreciated.

~ Don

These photos were sent in by Bill and Kazz,

...coming to you from Seattle, Washington, USA

~ Thanks for the photos Bill and Kazz! :-)

...Just too precious!

WE COULDN'T WAIT TO TAKE A PICTURE!

Thank's Uncle Anthony!

Anthony,
I could rave for pages about your meatballs and sauce but how's about if my grand-daughter just shows her pleasure and thanks. We owe you. If you're ever in Seattle stop by.

Thanks!, Bill and Kazz

These photos were sent in by Katy,

...coming to you from San Diego, California, USA

~ Thanks for the photos Katy! :-)

Ok, we see here all the necessities. Most important, the candels! Love those cendles! Katy is on the right here. Good job katy, it all looks deliciouse! I hope that Saprono's season opener was a good one.

Good family and friends and good food! Does it get any better? I think not! :-) It looks like Katy made the meatballs and braciole. She did the whole meal! WoW! Thatsa Lota Work! Trust me. But well worth the effort.

Anthony,
Here are some pictures of our Soprano's party as promised. People were fighting over the leftovers! I made your lasanga the next week and had to make two recipies so that my parents and aunt (in the picture with my husband and me) could take it home. Thank you so much, your site has opened up a whole world of italian cooking that I was too scared to even attempt before. That was my first lasanga, and boy was it good!

Thanks, Katy

These photos were sent in by William,

...coming to you from (North of) Chicago, Illinois, USA

~ Thanks for the photos William! :-)

Here sits William, enjoying the fruits of his labors :-) It's to just sit back and relaxed after all the cooking and just EnJoY!!!

Friends and family ready to dig in.. Yum!!! Un pane' tostato alla vostra salute' :-) (A toast to your good heath!)

Click HERE for more photos of William's cooking experience!

Ok, on the left here we have William taking care of the sauce. It's looking good!!! Don't forget to stirr the sauce! William has done a good job on the sauce here! It looks almost ready to go :-)

Anthony,
I have been telling all of my peeps about your site. This is the most comprehensive recipe site I have found. You give the shopping list, wine suggestions, even great music to set the theme, and loads of pictures to guide us through this wonderful process. I have been trying to perfect my own sauce or RED GRAVY (as we used to say in the South) for over 30 years, but your families secrets and methods have taken this blonde Dane into a whole new level. (The Italian Level) of saucery!! We live North of Chicago and I decided to make a small party out of this recipe one evening. I spent the whole day chopping, mixing and stirring and when my sister and brother-in-law came home from work and my girlfriend came over we spent the whole evening eating and lauging and dancing to the music. I doubled the recipe to have plenty to freeze, and I must admit I had to do a few variations on your theme but the end result was simply awesome. I mixed ground sausage and ground chuck and browned it and didn't make the meatballs (sorry, next time I will follow your recipe to a tee). All I had was wheat french bread but it turned out to be the best garlic bread I have EVER tasted!! A week later I thawed some of the sauce and made your lazagne (absolutley KILLER!!!) I can't thank you enough for building this site. All the best to you and yours! Peace Love and RED GRAVY

Ciao,

William P. Scott, Ann and Angie

These photos were sent in by Dr. Don,

...coming to you from St. Louis, Missouri, USA

~ Thanks for the photos Doc! :-)

Ok, we see above that Dr. Don has all the goodies and he's ready to Rock!!! If you look closely you will see a nice bottle of water, no tap water for Dr. Don :-) I have never tried that! Must give it a try next go around.

Here we see Dr. Don has his wine and he is ready to tackle this very tough job!
You go doc!!!

Click HERE for more photos of Dr. Don's cooking experience!

On the left we see here the all important bay leaf over the shoulder toss...Above we see the sauce just about ready to go :-) Man, this looks good!... In the word's of Dr. Don, of which he attached to this photo:
"Are you freaking kidding me?"... I'm thinking he was happy with the outcome. :-)

Anthony,
All right. Your sauce is freaking SICK. I mean SICK with a capital S. I have been searching and searching. This one does the trick. SOOOOO Good in fact that I made twice in two weeks. Once for Spaghetti and Meatballs and this time for Lasagna. I have included a few pics from my experience. I am writing from St. Louis. We have a little Italian area known as "The Hill". Several family recipes (ragu) come out of this small section of St. Louis. I have been trying different ones--connections you know. Nothing compares to this. WOW. YOU are the MAN. I enjoyed the whole experience. My daughters and I danced as the music played. We got our hands dirty, enjoyed the smells, and most of all enjoyed the day together. True family time. Great wine, Great sauce, and Great recipe. You will be hearing from me again. What about ravs? Any ravioli recipes??? Take care and thanks.

Dr. Don

These photos were sent in by;

Jeremy, Andrew, James and Matt,

...coming to you from wilmington, North Carolina, USA

~ Thanks for the photos guys! :-)

I like this braciole & wine photo so much, I have a blowup of this photo here.

Here we see Andrew getting ready for the behind the back bay leaf toss, wish him luck ;-) Over to our left here we see a beautiful photo taken by Jeremy of the Braciole all wrapped up and ready to go. A thing of beauty and the Chianti in the background is a perfect touch!

Good job Matt! I see you brought the wine, very important! :-)

...and here is Jeremy being oh so careful to roll up that braciole just right :-)

hmm... ok now, let's take a look at Anthony's Pasta Sauce, Meatballs and Braciole Recipe website one more time. Oh, that's what you do with the garlic, ok. Makes sense now, back to cooking!

Finally, after all the hard work, finally we get to eat! Man I'm starving! Eah! The food's all done, come eat, cabish?

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Jeremy, Andrew, James and Matt's cooking experience!

Tony,
Yeah, we made the sauce yesterday. Everything went GREAT! It was a lot of fun and I had my girlfriend's parents over and they enjoyed it too. Her mom doesn't even like Italian food and won't usually eat it, but she loved it, so much so she called her mom (my girlfriend's grandma) and was telling her all about it. We've got lots of pictures to send your way!

Jeremy

These photos were sent in by Jo Ng,

...coming to you from Hong Kong!

~ Thanks for the photos Jo! :-)

Hmmm.. Man! Just look at that Braciole! Awesome! It's amazing how good this stuff is! It is usually the one item family members fight over! Hey! He got a bigger Braciole than me, waaaa!.

Here it is, the finished deal! All that work and this is the end result! Believe me, it's worth the effort! Now dig in!

And here we have another photo of the finished product. This one shows the OH so important extra bowl of sauce! You really have to lay it on thick, this is good tasting stuff! ...and on the right here, we see Jo having fun with here friends kids starting to make the Bracoile :-) >>

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...Here we have Jo, her friend Jess and Jess' two kids over for a fun filled day of cooking and eating. Good food and good times, can it get any better than this? :-)

Anthony,
A couple of days ago, I made your spaghetti sauce, with pork chops, meatballs and Braciole, too. Wow, it was definitely the best sauce in the world! It was so good! My husband just loved it like crazy.

When I was making the sauce, he smelled it once and he just couldn't forget that lovely smell all day during his work. He even skipped his dinner and waited till I was off from work (almost 11:30pm) to make him the spaghetti. He said it was the best sauce he had ever tasted, even better than those eaten in 5-star hotels. I was so happy! Thank you dearly for your wonderful recipe and the way you're putting it.

It is the most detailed recipe I have ever seen. It was just like you're here teaching me beside me. I have never made any spaghetti sauce before and this is my first time, and it was such a success!

We'll be eating your spaghetti sauce with pork chops, meatballs and Braciole for the rest of our life! Thank you so much indeed!

Best regards, Jo

This photo was sent in by Bill, ...coming to you from San Francisco, California, USA ~ Thanks for the photo Bill :-)


	Anthony, I e-mailed my sister in New York for help in my attempt to produce some meatballs like my Mom used to make. Apparrently she either didn't get my e-mail or is still rolling on the floor in a fit of laughter at my audacity so I went to the net and the FIRST site I came to was yours. It is GREAT !!!!!!!!! I owe you. Thanks a lot for your sharing, patience and HUMOR. Again, you are GREAT ! Thanks, Bill

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