Grandma DeGeorge’s Sicilian Style Meatballs and Ground Beef Braciola
In Angelo’s words
So far I’ve given you a few of the wonderful recipes my grandmother brought with her from the Island of Sicily. It is for that reason I feel she deserves the credit for them. I feel they are her creations, because she neither owned or possibly didn’t know what a measuring cup was. To watch her at work was certainly a masterful skill I’m afraid I must say was an art I couldn’t appreciate in my youthful years.
When my wife and I set up house-keeping on our own, we didn’t go out to dinner much, fast food chains like McDonalds, Burger King, Arthur Treacher’s, were just starting to really get popular and it seems new “fast food” chains were popping up everywhere. Nevertheless we liked home cooked and it was my mother whom I turned to for grandma’s recipe’s after my grandmother passed away in 1964.
My mother is from the old school too. The difference being, she has the measuring cups and spoons – but she doesn’t use them either. So, if you want to learn a recipe from her, you have to watch and hope you get it right. Needless to say in order to put these recipes to paper isn’t easy.
I have taken the time to have pencil and paper handy when making these recipes, along with the proper measuring utensil to measure and note the amounts of herbs and spices used in the recipe. As individual taste vary I suggest you use a similar method when making them. Believe me when I tell you dinner at my mom’s house is a real treat. She still cooks at 92 and hasn’t lost the touch yet. So if you see a recipe called “Momma Biondo’s Eggplant Parmesan” etc., you’ll know where it came from.
This meatball recipe also doubles as a “Ground Beef Braciola” recipe with some a minor variation or two, which is included at the end of the meatball recipe. It is assumed that you are making Spaghetti sauce. You will need to finish the cooking process by simmering the meatballs and/or braciola in the sauce.
Recipe 1
Meatballs
Title added by the archive. Angelo gave this recipe no heading.
(for the meatball recipe)
Ingredients
What you’ll need
Note: Additional ingrediants for “Ground Beef Braciola” is listed below.
Method
Instructions
- See also: Grandma DeGeorge’s Spaghetti (tomato) Sauce
- Variation: Hamburg or Ground Beef Braciola
- See also: Grandma DeGeorge’s Spaghetti (tomato) Sauce
Recipe 2
Hamburg or Ground Beef Braciola
To make this recipe you simply use the meatball recipe with two (2) additional ingredients. You will need:
Ingredients
Method
- A variation of: Meatballs
- See also: Grandma DeGeorge’s Sicilian Style Steak Braciola
Family notes
None yet. Notes from the family will appear here, signed and dated, and kept apart from Angelo’s words.
From the archive
Restored · 2012 capture- Originally published
- , on angelobiondo.com by Angelo Biondo (post No. 55)
- Filed under
- Beef Recipes, Family Favorites, Pasta Recipes
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- No capture of the post’s own page exists; it is transcribed from the Beef Recipes category page, which shows it in full. The posting time isn’t shown there.
- The meatball recipe has no heading in the post (it follows “What you’ll need: (for the meatball recipe)”); “Meatballs” is a navigation title added by the archive.
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- The byline “By: Angelo Biondo” is not repeated.