A New Project: My Quest for Italian American Cooking

Today I'm starting a new project. Getting back to my roots. Not my ancestral roots, I'd be making pasties, Welsh cookies, faggots, minted lamb and various oat based foods (for the prodominate Welsh roots) or Yorkshire pudding and Roast beef for the English, Marske by the Sea, roots or something Danish, that would take research because my Danish great Grandmother cooked the English fare that her husband Great Grandfather Bryan liked but maybe those jam filled cookies were Danish. No I'm getting to the Valley roots which means either Italian or Polish fare. The Italian is really Italian American the kind of dishes you'd find at Grecos or Periguinos. Today I'm making Pork Braciola Marinara from Frankie's Spuntino cookbook. Just like grandma made if Grandma lived in West Pittston.

While it simmers I'm decorating my Xmas Tree.