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I’m going to have to introduce a separate ‘risotto’ category soon – but I really do make risotto a lot. I’ve had a really busy day but to stand by my cooker, slowly pouring hot stock into the rice in a pan and gently stirring with, it must be admitted, a glass of wine to […]
Read MoreI cook risotto a lot. It’s an ideal meal for one but will easily multiply to feed more – I used to make them a lot for a family meal – 3 to 4 of us. However, I wouldn’t cook one for lots of people. There’s nothing difficult about making a risotto, but timing is […]
Read MoreRisotto alla Milanese is perhaps the most famous risotto in Italy. In the recent BBC TV series Italy Unpacked Giorgio Locatelli and Andrew Graham-Dixon watched an acclaimed chef and master of the dish make it and then top it with a sheet of gold leaf. Though it would be wonderful to try that, for a midweek […]
Read More‘Risotto is such a simple and satisfactory dish’, wrote Elizabeth David in her Italian Food, first published in 1954. I imagine it was quite a rare dish to find in UK in those days whereas now it pops up on nearly every menu you’re likely to come across that crosses the Italian-fusion divide. Often it […]
Read MoreI love risotto and I can see I may need to introduce an entire ‘risotto’ category to the blog, but for the time being, this can be known as a ‘rice’ dish. (To find out more about the history of risotto, see my post: Fresh Tomato and Herb Risotto.) For me, risotto is soul food: […]
Read MoreRather surprisingly, given how much I love paella and always want to eat in when in Spain, I’d never cooked it, so I decided to put that right. I ordered a small (26cm) paella pan from Amazon, which is the right size for 2-3 portions, and then I was set to go. As I wrote […]
Read MoreI had quite a bit of pesto left over from the Sea Bream (see this post for pesto recipe) I cooked and decided the next evening to make a risotto and use it as the main flavouring. I picked this idea up from Jamie Oliver’s Italy book but thought I’d add some peas too. I like peas. […]
Read MoreRisotto is soul food: the kind of food you cook when you want to nurture yourself or those you care about; food that is warm and comforting; food to help you slow down as you stir it slowly. There are winter risottos but summer ones too: still warm and comforting but lighter, fresher flavours. This […]
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