How to Prepare Tomato Sauce From the Prison Dinner Scene in ‘Goodfellas’

Binging with Babish, filmmaker Andrew Rea made the old-school tomato sauce prepared by Paulie (Paul Sorvino) and Vinnie (Charles Scorsese) during the classic prison dinner scene in the excellent Goodfellas.

Say what you want about gangsters – the garroting, the cocaine use, the shooting-a-guy-in-his-foot-for-no-reason – the guys know how to eat, even in prison. Follow along as we make old-school Sunday gravy, and please, try not to piss off Tommy.

and the original scene from the movie: