"Hey baby, I hear the blues are callin', tossed salads and scrambled eggs." <Music: Frank Sinatra - Somewhere Beyond The Sea> HENRY (VO): "In prison, dinner was always a big thing." "We had a pasta course, and then we had a meat or a fish." "Paulie did the prep work.
He was doing a year for contempt" "and he had this wonderful system for doing the garlic." "He used a razor." "He used to slice it so thin it used to liquefy in the pan with just a little oil." "It was a very good system." "Vinnie was in charge of the tomato sauce." VINNIE: "Ahhh... it's got the smell... " "Got 3 kinds of meat in the meatballs, got, uh veal, beef, and pork." <offscreen> "Ahh, good, but you gotta have the pork." "Ohhh, that's, that's the flavor." HENRY (VO): "I felt that he used too many onions but it was still a very good sauce." PAULIE: "Vinnie... don't put too many onions in the sauce." VINNIE: "I didn't put too much onions in there, Paul... three small onions, that's all I did." <offscreen> "Three onions?
!" <Music: Ratatat - Cream on Chrome> Hey, what's up, guys, I'm back with another episode of Binging with Babish, and as a thank you for all the love you guys gave me for the last episode, I'm tackling, far and away, the one that has been most requested: Prison sauce from Goodfellas.
This of course means slicing our garlic so thin that it dissolves in the pan with just a little bit of oil and that's -- it's not really true, but it looks really cool, so we're gonna do it anyway.
Next up, we know Vinnie uses too many onions in the sauce; he says three small onions.
I'm cheating, using especially small onions, because I don't want to over-onion my sauce; I suggest you do the same.
We're gonna set this aside so we can start browning our meat.
We're gonna start with a pound each sweet Italian and hot Italian sausage.
Space them out so they're not overcrowding each other, and get some good color going on them.
Then we're going to do the same with a beef shank and some pieces of veal neck that we're then going to set aside once we get some good fond going.
