Menu No 1

The project is called Menus, and it’s a series of, well, menus! Each cookbooklet contains a set of recipes for a multi-course dinner that’s well-suited for a little dinner party. And with a plan to boot!

But more than a collection of really tasty recipes, the aim is to minimize waste by using ingredients that might otherwise be scrapped: if lemon juice goes into one recipe then zest goes into another; egg white in one recipe means yolk in another. Homesteading meets haute cuisine, if you will. And we will!

Menu No 1 focuses on rabbit, winter squash, eggplant, anchovy, and almond.

Recipes include:

• Whiskey Cocktail
  
• Butternut Squash on Toast
• Smothered Rabbit with Buttermilk and Cheddar Grits
• Romaine Salad with Roasted Eggplant Dressing
• Sauteed Cauliflower with Anchovies and Parsley
• Amaretti Morbidi and Sabayon