The Foodist: Pasta With Butternut Squash and Sage Brown Butter
This is a hearty and naturally vegetarian dish. You can add additional protein if you wish, but it is not necessary. This is great hot on a fall or winter night or served cold as a summer salad. The flavor is exceptional, especially with the sage, and it's very filling!
The Foodist: Potatoes Lyonnaise
Not gonna lie, this is one of my all-time favorite Rick meals at Mezzacello, The Foodist: Lyonnaise Potatoes. It is similar to his fantastic potator galette, but hot, crispy, smooth and loaded with flavor. He cooks it in a cast iron pan to really get that crispy maillard reactionand then finishes it in the oven that I replaced after I destroyed his old oven.
This is equally good reheated, although it can get greasy. Serve it for a brunch with a poached duck egg or as an appetizer with fresh goat cheese and a toothpick. This will be a crowd pleaser, fresh herbs are best, but dried will work.
The Foodist: Parmesan Chicken Tenderloins
This is the recipe for The Foodist: Parmesan Chicken Tenderloins and it is a banger! Your whole family is going to love this (even kids!). It is also super easy to reuse leftovers as it heats up perfectly.
It is also perfect for serving as a cocktail part or even fundraiser, as it is easy and cheap to make and holds up well. Serve it with toothpicks and a marinara or dijon and mayonnaise mustard sauce.
The Foodist: Homemade Rosemary Lasagna
I decided that I wanted to try to make a lasagna as much from scratch as was possible. I made the tomato sauce, ricotta, mozzarella, and cottage cheeses, and homemade lasagna noodles. The tomatoes and herbs came straight from the garden and the canning pantry. It was so good.
From Waste To Taste
This is a blog p[ost about how we create animal feed at Mezzacello Urban Farm from slightly dehydrated edible weeds and assorted corn, hay, seeds, wheat germ, oils, and molasses. When all of this blended it is mixed with 1/3 it’s mass of water. This is then blended together into a paste, The paste is then extruded, left to dry and voila! Feed!
The Foodist: Three Homemade Cheeses
These three cheeses are so easy to make, and so worth it to make it yourself. In terms of cost, it makes great sense to make these yourself. Point of fact, to buy these at a store is $18 but just $5 to buy the milk, lemon and vinegar - through in $3 for the heavy cream for the cottage cheese. Now you are in business!
The Foodist: Zingy Peas and Great Northern Bean Bowl
This soup is a delightful, tasty, and filling surprise. It is full of nutrients and flavor, and the tile is right on with the zing! supplied with fresh peas, ginger, and lemon. The leeks, garlic, miso, and butter beans create a rich, crunchy, and flavorful broth that makes for a delicious and luxurious mouthfeel.
The Foodist: Mezzacello Tortilla, Egg, Chives, Cheese, and Salsa Frittata
This was a fun experiment in sustainability and frugality! For $1.60 (including electricity to run the oven for 15 minutes, I made this delicious frittata this morning. It is very tasty and feeds a lot of people.
The Foodist: Oatmeal With Blueberry, Nutmeg, and Cinnamon Compote
Wake up to a yummy morning with this simple oatmeal, blueberry, and cinnamon baked compote. The combination of hearty oats and baked sachets of compote filling is a home run. The sachets can be baked ahead of time and frozen until needed.
The Foodist: Mezzacello Sausage and CheeseTortellini Soup
On cold windy winter nights we love to experiment with old standards in new ways. Rick merged the sausage balls from his version of wedding soup with a version of cheese tortellini soup. What’s more is that this recipe is comprised of 70% leftover veggies from other meals and sealed vegetables harvested last summer. Leftovers after this go to the rabbits.
The Foodist: Sustainable Spare Fruits and Veggies Smoothy
This is a secondary recipe from Rick’s Sausage and Cheese Tortellini Soup. The beauty of this is that it uses just five ingredients, a strainer, a blender, some epsom salt, drywall dust, and niacin tablets and Voila! Freeze the leftover ground tailings mix in the salt, gypsum, and niacin and freeze them into cubes. Then you have rabbit treats for the Rabbits. ZERO Waste and a very healthy drink.
The Foodist: New Year’s Day Surprise Quiche
Happy New Year! Rick wanted to use the mustard, garlic and honey rubbed pork roast, cabbage with Boursin cheese, and this amazing Marmalade. You simply must try this recipe for the foodist: New Years Day Surprise Quiche!
The Foodist: An Urban Farm Breakfast
Yay! Eggs are back! Now that we have a semi-functioning kitchen again, Rick made me an Urban Farm Breakfast. It was very good and filling and 80% homemade from materials on the farm. This is The Foodist: An Urban Farm Breakfast.
The Foodist: Seasoning Big Mom’s Cast Iron Pan
This pan is an heirloom. Ricks' Grandma Ann gifted to Rick's mother (Big Mom) who in turn gifted it to Rick. We use this pan alot! It's over 100 years old and has been well-cared for. With the remodel it got dusty and neglected, so we reseasoned her. Here's how.
The Foodist: Sausage, Thunder Jack Cheese, and Mango Scrambled Eggs
This is total comfort food! Rick threw together this experiment in flavors, textures, and ingredients, and boy is it a winner! Just the right amount of spice, sweetness and salty flavors. Try this The Foodist: Sausage, Thunder Jack Cheese, and Mango Scrambled Eggs!
The Foodist: Apple, Orange, Rosemary, and Peppercorn Turkey Brine
This brine is perfect for an Urban Farm and a fresh turkey! We were able to use peppercorns, garlic, bay leaves, and rosemary from the gardens and the fresh fruit was a nice addition. We swapped out apple cider for apple cider vinegar.
Boursin Chicken Roulette With Cabbage
This was a real surprise from Manon’s Little Kitchen! Boursin cheese, butter, salt and pepper on white cabbage. Delightful and wicked easy to make — and best of all — even better the next day! Rick included the entire dinner from Manon’s book.
The Foodist: The Ultimate Onion
A deluxe and delicious buttery roasted onion dish with Feta cheese, honey, and thyme. All over a bed of strained Kefir and walnuts!
The Foodist: Upside Down Shrimp Sesame Toast
Delightful buttered philo dough atop a puree of shrimp, parsley, walnuts, and butter. A reverse-engineered shrimp spring roll. And oh so good!