When you think of Dean Martin’s iconic song “That’s Amore,” you can probably hear the opening line used in so many classic movies play in your head; “When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore.”
However, fans of the song know the Rat Pack singer goes on to list another classic Italian dish: pasta fagioli (or pasta e fagioli). “When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fagioli, that’s amore,” Martin croons. The pasta and bean dish is more than just an apt rhyme for “drool,” Martin is actually singing about one specific version of pasta fagioli that he loves: his mother’s.
In a 2016 episode of “Hallmark Channel Home & Family,” Deana Martin, the late Dean Martin’s daughter, shared the recipe for her grandmother Angela’s Pasta Fagioli.
“[My father] loved it, and she taught me how to make it,” she said. “She said I could not teach anybody, I couldn’t tell anybody, it was a secret, and that one day after she passed away that it would bring my dad and me together. And it’s true.”
Deana recalls making the pasta fagioli as a Christmas present for her father about 30 years after his mother’s death.
“The look in his eye was unbelievable. He said, ‘Is this what I think it is?’ So I made it for him many many times after that,” Deana said.
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