Posted on 08/20/2022 8:49:08 PM PDT by jfd1776
They carry Mezzeta around here. I'll have to scope out their giardiniera.
Also, if you're a sweet pepper fan, try to find Peruvian sweety drop peppers.
Hard to find one anywhere in LA, even though we have many decent Italian delis.
South sider here.
Take about a 5 lb. rump roast. Stab it about 30 times. In each stab stuff part of a garlic clove. Coat it with fennel seed and oregano. Put it in a roasting pan with about an inch of water. Bake at 350° until thermometer registers 110° Cool and slice very thin.
Add 4 cups of water and 4 bouillon cubes to pan drippings. Add 1 tsp of oregano, 1 Tbl Worcestershire, 1 crushed garlic clove, salt and pepper. Simmer for about 15 minutes.
Marinate beef in broth mixture overnight.
Heaven.
Portillo's is now a chain and its locations (including Florida) can be looked up on your search engine.
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY has ever been able to duplicate the Portillo recipe for Italian Beef.
It's yummy in the tummy.
Leni
Somewhere along the way, our nation’s elders forgot to leave the instructions out for future voters to read.
No...they didn’t forget. Instead, we refuse to teach those instructions and denigrate them if they are mentioned.
When the boomers go, there will be no one who has the faintest inkling of a civics education.
WE did that.
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY has ever been able to duplicate the Portillo recipe for Italian Beef
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I won’t dispute your love for Portillo’s. For me it was NOVI’s in Berwyn on Oak Park and Ogden Avenue. I was a teenager in the late 70’s early 80’s when I first experienced Italian beef’s at Novi’s. They had the giardiniera on the counter top and you could add as much as you wanted. I am hooked on both (beef sandwiches & giardiniera) to this day. Novi’s is still in business, but through several different owners, it is a shell of what it used to be. Portillo’s is too commercialized. I make my beef recipe at home now. Great memories.
Although I’m not sure they are Chicago style, the East Side Market in LA serves roast beef sandwiches with Italian sauce and bell peppers. The deli opened in 1929 and is the last remaining Italian market in what was once an Italian neighborhood, and it is owned by an Italian family—not by Middle Easterners, Koreans or other non-Italians, as are so many other Italian eateries in the Southland. It is located on East Side Market Square in Victor Heights. a residential neighborhood across the Pasadena Freeway from China Town and across the Hollywood Freeway from Downtown LA.
Had my first italian beef sandwich last month & that was what drew me to this post.
Fortunately for me I stuck with the article long enough to get down to the real meat of the piece.
The quotes & discussions re: mr di leo on the lost decades of public education & understanding of how our government was intended to work were much more appetizing than the discussion of peppers & cheese.
A French Dip Illinois style is 100 times better. medium rare thin slices beef on a crusty french bread deep dipped in au jus. Not the slimy Italian mix - yuck.
Thanks! I know of it but only heard about their meatball sandwiches.
Thanks! Gotta try this!
He and Kasich must be brothers from different mothers.
I am holding the VDH ping list to keep his articles noticed on FR. (To the best of my knowledge there is no corresponding Di Leo ping list. Yet.)
American Thinker has asked that we do not post the articles in full.
I could go back to VDH’s website and post from the website, once he reposts it there (if ever).
But American Thinker has a financial model that includes (more) honest advertising numbers than say, YT or FB. Certainly more honest than Twitter.
So it makes sense to support the website that allow JFD and other to reach a larger audience than they would if they posted on their own site only. And I supposed they get paid for online articles.
I can honor that request, if it helps keep these writers creating articles that I can share with family and friends. These writers work hard at their craft and are worthy to be paid for their work.
Mr Di Leo, please keep up the good worksmithing.
We look forward to more from you.
Since they were bought out,(portillo sold to an Indian company only kept one store) they are still good but not the same. IMHO.
Do you happen to know the location of the store that Portillo’s kept?
Am planning a trip to the area and would like to visit it.
There will be a Portillos opening this Fall in the DFW area, but I can’t imagine it will be the same.
Great article, and the comments, too!
DiLeo has written a lot of good articles over the years, this is one of his best.
He is brilliant in how he points out the parallels in the reporter’s writing, and the deficiencies in today’s voters.
A great analysis of how our system of government is designed to work, and a great analysis of what makes a good Italian Beef sandwich-he got my mouth watering for sure!
Pepperoncini or hot giardinara for me!😛😛
Somewhere along the way, our nation’s elders forgot to leave the instructions out for future voters to read.
This last sentence is the only flaw I see in his writing.
The instructions are there; The US Constitution and The Federalist Papers.
Americans, are “too busy”, too lazy, and too sidetracked to bother with what affects their way of life. They want a quick fix to everything, and “bread and circuses”.
They can’t be bothered with the words of some men who lived hundreds of years ago, some of who were slave owners.
Education involves two people if it has a chance of working.
The teacher and the learner.
If we don’t teach, they can’t learn. We each have an opportunity every day to teach someone. Education is like sales, you have to knock on a hundred doors to get one sale.
He can be funny or cruel
Depends on his mood
Traffic here is 10-20% of the golden years
Seems we don’t have the luxury to purge like we used to
And boy did we ever
2000-2007
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