New Years Eve Dinner

Homemade Pasta Fazul and a salad
 

 

 

Another winner, John!!!

Man JA Looks super, How bout a recipe?

John,
 
That pasta fazul looks great.  My families recipe is more like a pasta dish than a soup.
 
Care to give up some trade secerts? 

PASTA FAZUL 
  
 
Two 15oz cans of Great Northern Beans, Drained
One 14.5oz can diced Italian tomatoes
One 10oz can Ro-Tel diced tomatoes & chilies
Two cloves finely chopped garlic
One medium chopped onion
One small stalk chopped celery
One small chopped carrot
Basil
Parsley
Oregano
Red pepper flakes
S&P
Pasta
 
Add all ingredients except pasta to pot and cover with water. Pour a ring of olive oil on top and simmer for two hours. At this point I let the beans cool down and refrigerate for at least one day. When ready to eat reheat and cook desired amount of pasta in another pot, add to beans and simmer for 20-30 minutes before serving.
 
NOTES
 
1.   Ro-Tel tomatoes & chilies in mild, regular, or hot is up to you.
2.   Seasonings are to taste, sorry but I do not measure.
3.   I use either fine spaghetti or Ditalini macaroni.
4.   You may have to add water after refrigerating overnight.
 
 

Got it.  Yumm.  Hope you and yours had a good one; John.  I assume my tent is still not rented? 

Pasta e Fagiole
 
Edit: I forgot the e.

At my Cousin's diner it was always spelled and pronounced "Pasta Fazool".

John,
You always post beautiful food! Your salads are spectacular.

man, you make the best salads.  all the good stuff, and a judicious use of that pesky lettuce when you can so easily add meat, onions, cheese, olives, tomatoes, etc.

wonderful!

joerogo


At my Cousin's diner it was always spelled and pronounced "Pasta Fazool".

I know how it's pronounced, at least where I come from, but it is pasta with beans. Beans -- fagiole.

That salad is a meal by itself. 

Ummm, looks wonderful and deliceous...

So where is the map to your house? I live near Sacramento, CA !!

Does your wife know what a lucky woman she is?

 I didn't make anything special for New Years Eve but I did make a pot of white beans and ham bones for New Years Day. I am making skillet fried potatoes to go with as we speak. I don't have a digital camera so I can't post pics. Rest assured everything looks delicious.

David O.

Google Fazul, Fazol, or Fazool and you will come up with a number of recipes. Guess it depends upon what region in Italy your grand parents came from? Mine were from Sicily.

Adjudicator


Got it.  Yumm.  Hope you and yours had a good one; John.  I assume my tent is still not rented? 

Still have your reservation Joe

John A


Google Fazul, Fazol, or Fazool and you will come up with a number of recipes. Guess it depends upon what region in Italy your grand parents came from? Mine were from Sicily.

You don't mention if you Googled  'fagiole'.  This may be our first forum controversy for 2009.  I side with Michael on this as I was taught in California by Italians from Florence and Umbria.  I've used Michael's reply when asked if I had a pasta fazool recipe. I had a soup recipe of pasta ...e fagiole.
Unlike Michael, I do eat pizza and not apizza, even if I am sitting in one of New Haven's big three...

Instead of me being snotty about it,  I now realize that it is part of the East coast regional description for (and I mean this in the best way) old style, red sauce and meatball Italian cooking.  You will not find pasta fazool in California.
This is actually the reason for RoadFood, a exploration of our own regional differences.  Sometimes it is hard to remember this. The real difference between fagiole and fazool is about a dollar a bowl, depending on the restaurant.

Your soup may be part of a theme for 2009, easy and comforting food.  Yours always is.  Soup and salad is a great start.  Will we be seeing Salisbury steak instead of steak?

mark

doggydaddy

John A


Google Fazul, Fazol, or Fazool and you will come up with a number of recipes. Guess it depends upon what region in Italy your grand parents came from? Mine were from Sicily.

You don't mention if you Googled  'fagiole'.  This may be our first forum controversy for 2009.  I side with Michael on this as I was taught in California by Italians from Florence and Umbria.  I've used Michael's reply when asked if I had a pasta fazool recipe. I had a soup recipe of pasta ...e fagiole.
Unlike Michael, I do eat pizza and not apizza, even if I am sitting in one of New Haven's big three...

Instead of me being snotty about it,  I now realize that it is part of the East coast regional description for (and I mean this in the best way) old style, red sauce and meatball Italian cooking.  You will not find pasta fazool in California.
This is actually the reason for RoadFood, a exploration of our own regional differences.  Sometimes it is hard to remember this. The real difference between fagiole and fazool is about a dollar a bowl, depending on the restaurant.

Your soup may be part of a theme for 2009, easy and comforting food.  Yours always is.  Soup and salad is a great start.  Will we be seeing Salisbury steak instead of steak?

mark

 
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However its spelt, its a beautiful looking dish !

Could cannelini beans sub for the great northerns as we don't have them here ?

Ny Mom's recipe,similar to John's above actually calls for cannelini beans...I've only seen it made around here with cannelini beans...so it is fine, I'd actually prefer them!!!

You say tomato...I say "Welcome to New Jersey"

Here, you will enjoy Pasta (sometimes even Basta) Fazul or Fazool. Sometimes, when we are minding our manners, you will hear term fazool (in lieu of something else), while we are driving. It has nothing to do with soup, or pasta.

We also get a kick out of traveling around, and listening to all of the "other" variations...like Pass ta  fage e oh li. Oh my! Pass the what??

Beautiful, John!!

All we need are a few ceci, for the salid, and we good to go!



 

Hey,CCin NJ,
    My mom made a ceci d'pasta...
       Exactly like Pata Fagiole, except with ceci beans...we loved both...and I still make both...if you've never had the Italian favorite with ceci beans, give it a try!!

I agree with you, Lee! It is very delicious!

Oh yes. Ceci aka chick peas or garbanzo beans.

MissKitty


However its spelt, its a beautiful looking dish !

Could cannelini beans sub for the great northerns as we don't have them here ?

Cannellini beans are standard for this dish.

What's for dessert?

Thank you so much folks.

I'll use either Cannellini or Great Northern beans, depends on what I have at the moment. I do Ceci beans the same way.

morningglory, go south to I-10, East to I-95, then south to Daytona Beach. Call ahead though as Adjudicator has first dibs on a tent in the back yard.

"Call ahead though as Adjudicator has first dibs on a tent in the back yard."