Mestolando, where home cooked italian food happens.

‘Risotto con bietola’ a risotto slow-cooked with a strong sauté base, leafy swiss chard and hints of tomato flavoring. The simple sauté is made up of carrot, celery, red onion in extra virgin olive oil.

Cannellini beans slow cooked with sausage in a mix of garlic, sage and tomato flavors. This traditional recipe is simple in both ingredients and preparation.

Fresh eggplant and tomato sauce recipe that has the eggplant sauteed in garlic and olive oil. Finished with melting mozzarella di bufala cheese.

Pappa al pomodoro brings some of the simple ingredients like tomatoes, bread, garlic and basil together in a warm flavorful soup.

This recipe is a simple way to get a lot of flavor into a piece of pork. Two holes are made into the pork before cooking and a mix of chopped garlic, rosemary, salt and pepper are stuffed inside.

Bruschetta with tomatoes is an apetitizer found in almost every italian restaurant around the world, it’s simple and delicious.

Amatriciana is spicy hot, and generous in it’s use of strong flavorful ingredients. It has a mix of red onions, pancetta bacon, tomatoes, olive oil and peperoncino which is like red cayenne pepper.

Piselli al prosciutto, peas with prosciutto ham takes ordinary frozen peas and adds flavors of garlic, prosciutto ham, parsley and olive oil to them.

This salad with it’s tuscan contadini-farmer roots, is an interesting way to combine bread and fresh ingredients together. With tomatoes, red onions, cucumbers, oilve oil and vinegar there’s lots of flavor to go around.

Black olives, prosciutto ends, porcini mushrooms and tomatoes in this sauce produce several strong flavors, serve this one hot with some parmesan cheese sprinkled on top.

A different kind of Risotto that takes advantage of fresh artichokes, a great dish to cook when they’re in season. There’s plenty of flavor with garlic, artichokes and parsley being some of the main ones.

It’s all about the tomatoes, if you can find some ripe mature good looking ones then it will come out perfect! The preparation and cooking time are short and easy.

Have a good size piece of tender red meat? This is a great way to lightly season it with rosemary, garlic and olive oil. The beef slowly cooks in the olive oil creating a flavorful gravy like sauce afterwards.