The responses have been amazing. We have guests coming into the our Italian restaurant several times a week to dine. Many people have come to the restaurant after being told about us from their friends and family. People are even calling us from home to congratulate us on the atmosphere, friendliness and most of all, the taste of the food.
There’s something to be said about how food tastes and looks like when it comes out of a wood burning, brick oven. Nothing can compare to it. Come see and taste for yourselves.
Veal specials are back and everyone is loving as well as gobbling them up. Prepared as a Parmigiana dish with your choice of pasta or Milanaise style, breaded and laid atop a bed of arugula with bruschetta, shaved parm and a balsamic glaze to top it off.
Although our families started and ended in other communities, the friendship began in Rosedale, a neighborhood in Queens County, NY. It will always be a special place in our hearts with many good memories. We are truly amazed at the “buzz” the name Rosedale Brick Oven has created. Numerous people have come in to see the “guys from Rosedale”. Whether they were from Rosedale or surrounding neighborhoods, it has given us and our patrons many walks down memory lane. It was the best name we could have chosen for our Italian restaurant.
So good, they’ll make you cry!
When it comes to an Italian kitchen, onions are used in so many dishes, we don’t know where to start. Whether they are standing out on a salad, adding flavor and texture to a pizza, or combined with other ingredients, many of our dishes would lose their touch without the presence of onions.
The Onion Origin
Since the beginning of civilization, onions have been an important part of our diet. However, it was once believed to be a lowly vegetable because of its pungent taste. But, as we all know, over the centuries the onion has prevailed! It is now one of the most commonly consumed vegetables, and has emerged as a favorite ingredient in many recipes. Onions have the amazing ability to add flavor to an otherwise bland dish, can turn an average meal into an elegant dinner, and fill the kitchen with delicious aromas.
What Are Onions?
Practically everyone is familiar with onions, but there are probably a number of things you don’t know about this amazing vegetable.
Onions actually belong to the lily plant family. They are grown for the edible bulb, which is what you find in the produce section. Onions are typically put into two categories, “green” or “dry”.
Green onions are smaller onions, harvested before the bulb has matured. Because of early harvesting, the tops are still green.
Dry onions are also known as “mature onions”. These are harvested when the shoot has died and layers of papery thin skin cover a firm juicy flesh. There are two types of dry onions: Fresh (Spring/Summer), also called “sweet onions”, and Storage (Fall/Winter) onions.
Sweet onions have higher water content and may be served either raw or cooked. Storage onions contain less moisture and have a higher sulfur content, so they can be kept in storage for longer periods of time. The storage onion is used in cooking, providing a sharper and more flavorful taste than sweet onions.
A traditional Italian onion is the Cippoline onion. It has a flat oval shape, a brown papery skin, and ranges from 1-3 inches in size. Cippoline onions are a dry onion, with a delicately sweet flavor. They’re wonderful for roasting whole – caramelized and delicious.
So how does Rosedale Brick Oven use onions in our Italian ?
Our famous marinara sauce also gets a nice assist from the onion which in turn, compliments most of our red sauce dishes.
Joined by garlic and other herbs, and cooked with our marinated chicken wings in our wood fired oven, onions help to give our “Wings Italiano” their name.
Flavorful onions are also used in some of our delicious seafood dishes, such as mussels marinara in white wine sauce.
Rosedale Brick Oven is the Best Wood Fired Pizza and Italian Restaurant in Naples, Florida. We serve a variety of delicious Italian dishes, including pasta, lasagna, calzones oven baked sandwiches, seafood, chicken and veal entrees as well as a true Pizza Napoletana with an authentic New York style.
