Grab the Good Life with Rocco DiSpirito
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December 16, 2005 - WOR 12/16/05
WOR 12/16/05
***IMPORTANT***
Rocco's Cookware has RETURNED to QVC! Please go to:
ROCCO'S KITCHEN
Grab The Good Life everyone! Today we have a great show lined up for you! Today Bob and Donna Holder founders of Marilyn wines will be here!
Plus: My good friend Karen Bussen will be here to talk holiday ideas! Check her out at KarenBussen!
And YOU at 800-321-0710! The show only rocks with you involved so give us a call!
Rocco: Bottom line: Whoever took our Marilyn wine, headphones and books better return 'em! We have to live the good life, but not that way! But Momma, you look so beautiful with your new haircut!
Momma: I am 21 years old now!
Rocco: Yeah Mom, you look so young, so beautiful.
Patsy in Brooklyn: Hey Rocco, Hey Momma!
Rocco: Thank you SO much for the Christmas Gifts, they were so nice-especially the wind up toy, my cat loves it! He flips out!
Patsy: Aww I thought you'd like that Rocco! And you know that Fruit Cake that goes around the world? Well it stops at my house!
Rocco: I love that! I knew it ended up somewhere! So what can I help you with?
Patsy: I need a good Struffoli recipe!
Rocco: I have one that my aunt, who sadly just passed away made and it is a great one. Here it goes.
Struffoli
Ingredients:
9 eggs
Approximately 3/4 cup olive oil
5 1/2 cups of flour, or more
Vegetable oil for frying
To decorate:
1/4 cup of honey
1 to 1 1/2 cups of sugar
Confetti sprinkles
Sliced almonds
Instructions:
1. Beat together the eggs and oil.
2. Add flour into bowl, then knead for 20 minutes or longer, until soft. (it should be like a ball).
3. Break off a small piece of dough and covering the remaining dough. Roll the piece into a long narrow strip, and then cut the dough into pieces less than a half inch long. Repeat with remaining dough.
4. Using a heavy-bottomed frying pan, fill halfway up the sides with vegetable oil. Place dough pieces inside pan, without letting them touch. (Do not overcrowd, put in a only a handful in at a time; you may have to work in batches.) If oil starts to foam, the oil is too cool; raise the temperature. Cook until lightly golden brown.
5. To decorate, combine approximately 1/4 cup honey and 1 to 1 1/2 cups of sugar in a 12 inch frying pan. Cook on high heat until it boils. Add cooked pieces of strufoli, mixing until they are covered with the honey-sugar mixture.
6. Remove from frying pan and immediately mold strufoli into desired shape, traditionally a wreath. Keep cool water nearby for when hands become too warm.
7. Decorate with confetti sprinkles and almond slices.
Patsy: I saw you on Isaac Mizrahi-you were so great!
Rocco: I love him like a brother, he is so great! To see Isaac Mizrahi stuttering is too much!
Patsy: Yeah you had him speechless! Happy Christmas Rocco and Momma!
Lets' welcome Bob and Donna Holder founders of Marilyn wines to the show!
Rocco: So apparently your wines are so popular that someone even had to steal it out of our studio!
Bob: Wow, what sized bottle?
Rocco: 7.50
Bob: Well that can be replaced...
Rocco: Sure I mean if it's a size thing, you can send a double magnum if you want-
Mike: Why not send the whole case!
Rocco: Yeah we LOVED the Marilyn Picture on there!
Donna: Hahaha!
