Ultimate Home-Cooked Italian Food Experience | Cheese, Pasta, Meatballs and More!

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It’s more than just cooking; it’s about embracing the soulful connection between food, family, and culture. I’ll show you how my father-in-law (& Chef!) goes mushroom foraging and shares the art of the pickling process, all while slowing down to appreciate life’s simpler pleasures. A little taste of Italy – Buon appetito!

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Meet Mr s father husband my father-in-law and master mushroom hunter join us as he unveils the secrets of foraging edible mushrooms including the elusive Hen of the Woods AKA grifola frondosa in today’s video We’re Going Back to Basics exploring the Fine Arts of mushroom pickling cheese making pasta crafting and so much More That’s a good sign mushroom hunt over there oh we see it oh first one first one is spotted and there he goes and this is how it happens folks he just goes up to a random house and takes the mushroom So this is a good sign go size then you find the mushroom are you happy yeah this is my father-in-law s and then this one hiding is anet this is my mother lot so we are going to be cooking up a storm in this kitchen today and

We’re going to bring you along and show you how to make it okay so we’re going to start off by making homemade rotta cheese you only need three ingredients to make this you need home milk salt and white vinegar you do need a special kind of container as you can see there’s

Little spaces here this is to allow some of that water to drain so if you can find maybe something on Amazon or specialty store this is what it looks like we have a few that we’re going to use today we’ll show you how this works I’m going to put the whole gallon milk

And it is a PO 2 tablespoon salt do it do it you put the the flame to warm it up in milk cuz it takes time before boil how long do you typically keep this on for uh I would say about 10 minutes all right okay time to add in our white Vinegar this is where he measured his white vinegar so nice little espresso cup could be your measuring cup very Italian you see it’s already getting thicker so he’s going to be just mixing for the next 5 to 10 minutes when you see the water from the milkk change color means there is no

More go on the bottom to get up Rot rot you know what I means means it’s you cook something twice twice you know oh this got thick fast the rut is done now how long do you have to wait until we eat it right now we have to drain with these that crackers a little bit of Honey on top

It’s very good we’re going to what is it football party that’s what we’re going to bring crackers Super Bowl party Super Bowl yeah you think it’s going to win I don’t know I didn’t know okay I’m looking this is for draining right get off all the water from go believe it or

Not it’s a better off to make your own regot then buy any stores and why is that because the G make that I bought it it’s only $2.49 if you buy the doota 3 lb in a store it cost you $9 $10 and it’s going to taste better because you

Got Mr Chef Sal right here for you I think we have enough cheese nothing to waste you could use this with everything with a to make a bazii galoni raoli feel like it’s a dance anything ends up o put a little bit of honey for

Breakfast put in a slic toast put in the toast oven and it’s delicious you know breakfast What If you’re lactose intolerant then what you’re screw Wow taste pass show our friends not me show them oh with the rot I put some honey this is going to get everywhere all right a little bit of Honey so good well like with the honey a lot right Frank why that’s good you get a little saltiness a little Sal and then the sweetness from the honey we’ll first show you some homemade wine and do a little taste test and if it’s a good time for you to also be sitting

With a glass please join us for a little wine I bought a juice comes from California when I buy the juice I put the yeast inside one envelope okay specific kind of yeast for wine for the wine yes okay I put it in I mix it up and I close

The bucket okay and I leave the day on the bucket the juice for least two three days okay until the juice ferment mhm once the juice ferment I transfer the juice from here from the bucket to the Daman this is red this is white now before you drink this

Wine it’s going to pass at least 3 months 3 months three months until become a wine then after that it could taste the wine if it came good or bad the wine instead of to be wine it become vinegar M so I stay away from the

Vinegar yes we want we like the wine we have some wine upstairs you want to go try it okay let’s go let’s go all right we’re going to try some wine never too early so although it looks like it’s not homemade cuz we rebottle into something else this is not the actual wine

Homemade if you are in Long Island or if you know Long Island wineries the white I’ve actually tried this the white actually tastes like pindar wine which is a Winer R out in Long Island you going to have one too yeah strong wi so CH chop CH cheers Che

Wow that is good that is sweet that is a good one that is very good unbelievable that’s refreshing that’s perfect for the summer let’s see we’ll try the red this one smells strong strong it’s good for the chicken sauce sauce this will be good with some meatballs nice what’s better than homemade wine

Wish you were here to drink it with us but cheers to you hopefully you’re drinking a little glass you don’t drink something nice and refreshing very go homemade pasta time we’re getting the table ready telli okay so these are all the things you need to make pasta we need it

Four cups flour two smolina two wh so he is sifting yeah with that goes baking powder half a tablespoon baking powder all right 1 and a half tablespoon in a oil mix her up mix it up after you mix you start to put a warm

Water if you need it more you put it more I think it needs more than that need more all right so you kind of just feel it out how much water you’ll need if it’s like a little dry I think it need cup and a

Half or two so what kind of texture are we trying to get it’s going to be between not too hot not too wet this is the start of something beautiful right here You opened up your first restaurant what year 1975 to 76 and how many restaurants did you have four Wow how do you know when they’re done another 10 15 minutes you can use go this way the door relax I like how it and it’s easier gotten so fluffy already yeah all right we let it Sit we interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for a quick news update the statements made about mushrooms in this video have not been verified by FDA s is not actually a mushroom hunter so please take what he says with a grain of salt be aware that while some wild mushrooms are edible a

Few are poisonous do not eat any mushroom unless absolutely certain of its identification and that is safe to consume back to our regularly scheduled programming good and look I right I got when I see trees I see the bottom of the tree if there is

A mushroom I tell if there isn’t I walk for another one but how do you know those mushrooms are safe yeah what about their poison we test it out on your mother if she starts to hallucinate then we we throw out the batch we saw dragons

Last night for 3 hours oh my gosh these are all them this thing is hugeass I can’t even pick it up what what is the process of preparing the mushrooms first of all you got to cut it up okay piece by piece okay and they got

To live in the water at least 3 days 3 days and it change water once every four4 hours to get the dirt yeah after that you’re going to boil I put a some in my garlic if the garlic change the color means it’s not good that’s the way of testing

To see if it’s no good meaning not edible little bug that’s the crunch organic yeah and I on my mind I say if those little bugs they Li that means they a poison so then it’s washed what color does the garlic have to turn if it’s bad if it stays white it’s okay

Yeah it’s good what’s the next step once you move forward I put a Cho garlic okay I put a aleno paper and lots of lots of oil lot of oil boil them with white that’s pickling process disect yes disinfectant yeah both both cook for taste you have another ear three ears be

Tri very good m it’s very tasty scared me we’re going to stretch now to make the C Doing I’m you know just making Pasta I put two kinds of meat beef and pork beef and pork to make my meatballs so we already combin the two kinds of meat black paper garlic chicken grilled seasoning and uh lemon pepper salt homemade pesta homemade pesta bread Crum and cheese and one egg and one egg put

Lu4 teaspoon black pepper 1/4 teaspoon dry garlic a pinch of Chicken Grill seasoning lemon paper Just A Pinch qu of a salt tablespoon salt yum and 1 tablespoon Pasto bre put some milk and then mix everything together And then we start to make a big balls I like to have it the same size each one what’s better than this gadget a little ice cream scooper Beautiful and I like my meatballs not fried but Bak m M healthier Yes and we put in the oven about 15 minutes they going to be 15 minutes now we’re making sauce yes so chop one yellow onion many size Tomatoes we use this we like this to toos okay peel that’s the best and then you put a little bit of of this the tomato

Paste so you you do this when you make with meat without the meat don’t use the tomato paste use just Tomatoes okay so we put a little bit olive oil in the pot and I drop the onions cook in on about 5 minutes until gets translucent Through the tomatoes with tomatoes Apple some concentrated tomatoes and I put some Water this SP okay black peer lemon paper and you mix them and I put one B leaves and I let it cook a little bit more both the brown and what I do one by one I put it in a Sauce Good job Adrian I have a chef I am a chef that very good okay so here is our fresh pasta I’m excited what up tasting our fresh pasta oo wow that’s good excellent meet the ball Time all right we’re going to eat talk to you soon okay it’s towards the end of the day I’m getting tired I’ve had a lot of food in my belly we hope you enjoyed cooking with us we hope you learned some new recipes and make some of this

Delicious food at home with your friends or your family please leave me a comment down below what food you liked best and which one you want to try please subscribe to the channel if you haven’t already it helps us put out more content like this and we will see you in the next

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