This is a recipe for Pasta E Fagioli that Deana Martin, Dean Martin’s daughter, shared on social media recently. It is a recipe that Dean Martin’s mom used to make often and it was one of his favorite foods. Dean Martin was born in 1917, so he would have been a teenager during The Great Depression. People ate Pasta E Fagioli often during that time because it was very cheap to make and also very filling.
The recipe is from the book Memories Are Made Of This by Deana Martin – https://amzn.to/3Uw7I4w
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PEF is a fantastically customizable dish! It's one of the "refrigerator soups", lol – a soup you can make out of whatever's in the fridge so long as there are pasta and beans as the base of it. Thank you for reminding your viewers that it exists, and as always, thank you for your tips, too! We love you, Grandma!!
How would you make yours, Grandma?
Would love your version too plz
Excellent timing. Saw the video just before heading to the store. Got what o need for a nice little meal now. Thank you!
Thanks for the video Grandma! ❤
This soup is a great example of comfort food. Thanks Grandma.
Love it! Can't get much cheaper than pasta and beans!! Thanks again! (I save all your great depression recipes. Think we're all going to need them if this inflation gets much higher!)
It looks like it should be pronounced "Eh! Fagioli! (Rhyme with Ravioli!) So how come it's pronounced "Fazool?"
The ones I've seen are tomato based but very similar, just uses some tins of tomatoes instead of some of the water.
Looked good tho grandma.
One of my favorite meals, although mine is very different than this and only takes about 15 minutes to make. Thanks for sharing and glad Grandpa enjoyed it. Stay well and safe.
An Italian landlord that I lived with years ago made this with celery and carrots fried up with the onions and then she used pink beans. It was delicious . this one seems interesting with the cannellini and cinnamon. I will try that
I don't think I would ever put cinnamon in this recipe; it's like adding sugar to chicken soup. Not sure why you would boil the onions and beans for so long when the beans are already cooked.
Can you use black beans or chickpeas or lentils?
When you get a chance, post your version too♥️
So sad that grandpa didn't reply in his usual fashion. My Mom and I crack up every time Grandma says "how's it taste Grandpa"? And he replies "let you know in a minute Ma"😀❤and thanks for pronouncing the Italian! I remember the Dean Martin song, but didn't know how " pasta fahjool" was spelled😀
looks great!
Dean Martin was such a nice man. I have never made this and it looked marvelous. Thank you.
I first heard of pasta e fagioli when I worked briefly at an Italian restaurant that served great depression recipes and meatballs. The owner was a jerk but the food was really good and is one of the reasons I love great depression food
Looks good but id probably use chicken stock if i was going to make it this way
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A perfect dish for cold weather!
My family loves Italian food, so
I can’t wait to try this.
P.S. Dean Martin is dreamy! 😍
I'm gonna try this ooooh I can't wait 😁
I recently saw the TCM bio on Dean Martin. Deanna said she made this for him, and a week later he called and asked her to make it again. She also said the secret ingredient was cinnamon. Thanks for the video.
💕💕 it!
Did she cinnamon in the soup
Thanks so much for sharing this with us. I am looking forward to your garden video!
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Never heard of adding cinnamon. Interesting!
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For my family, pasta e fagioli was tomato based with red kidney beans. Pasta cheech was chicken broth based with chi chi (chickpeas). We ate it a lot as kids. We called it pasta balloon. I guess fagioli sounded like balloon to us. And lots of garlic bread with it..might be a cheap meal, but we ate it Ike we were kings! ❤❤
Heart warming, but also humbling. I made pasta e fagioli with high quality Italian tomato paste, well seasoned sausage, aromatics, and a very nice olive oil with imported parmagio reggiano, tonight. Dean's Grandmother's dish, however, is very reflective of the lean times in which she perfected her recipe, and a reminder of how hard those times were for those of us too young to have experienced them. I'll be trying this version next. Thank you for bringing it to us. <3
Now I need to watch the video with grandma and Grandpa's recipe again to see how these differ. I'm intrigued.