Risotto v2.0

I cooked another risotto last night, using the rest of the stock from the first batch I cooked a week or so ago.

As chickenfeet2003, it isn’t difficult per se – it is dead easy, even - just hard work: I got really bored doing all the stirring and my wrist ached; since I knew it would work, there wasn’t even the excitement of waiting to see if it would work or not.

One problem is that my wife really, really likes risotto; and she now knows I can make it; so it is going to become a fixture on our menu, I think.

Last night, it was a vegetarian risotto – standard recipe (with onions, this time), and a stick of celery added with the sweating onions, and loads of mushrooms added; I had put the mushroom in the heating stock for a while to make sure they were cooked (I wanted to just add them to the rice late on, so they’d be warm but still with some bite, but my wife pulled a face – she likes things cooked – though I am sure she’d have been happy with mushrooms in a salad – why didn’t I think of that last night?).

It was, frankly, delicious.

We had it with a bottle of Hardy’s sparkling chardonnay – good fizz at under £5 (on offer from Tesco until the end of the month – at least in Edinburgh! (I’ve just looked for it on the Tesco website, but they require you to register; so they can f*ck off, then!)

And then we hit the jazz.

Risotto v2.0

I cooked another risotto last night, using the rest of the stock from the first batch I cooked a week or so ago.

As chickenfeet2003, it isn’t difficult per se – it is dead easy, even - just hard work: I got really bored doing all the stirring and my wrist ached; since I knew it would work, there wasn’t even the excitement of waiting to see if it would work or not.

One problem is that my wife really, really likes risotto; and she now knows I can make it; so it is going to become a fixture on our menu, I think.

Last night, it was a vegetarian risotto – standard recipe (with onions, this time), and a stick of celery added with the sweating onions, and loads of mushrooms added; I had put the mushroom in the heating stock for a while to make sure they were cooked (I wanted to just add them to the rice late on, so they’d be warm but still with some bite, but my wife pulled a face – she likes things cooked – though I am sure she’d have been happy with mushrooms in a salad – why didn’t I think of that last night?).

It was, frankly, delicious.

We had it with a bottle of Hardy’s sparkling chardonnay – good fizz at under £5 (on offer from Tesco until the end of the month – at least in Edinburgh! (I’ve just looked for it on the Tesco website, but they require you to register; so they can f*ck off, then!)

And then we hit the jazz.

London: Saturday - "speeding around underneath the yellow lights"

( ...Way Out West... )

London: Saturday - "speeding around underneath the yellow lights"

( ...Way Out West... )