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Posts tagged “risotto”

Recipe: Mushroom and Leek Risotto

I've been craving a nice, hearty risotto for a while. With the cold and wet weather recently, I decided this week would be a good time for this type of dish. I had it in my mind that I wanted to m...

Recipe: Duck with Black Olives and Black Olive Risotto
Cookbook Recipes

We like to have a few recipes tucked away for special occasions. Meals that are foolproof, crowd-pleasing, and not too difficult — but still a little more demanding (and impressive) than our usu...

Wine: Bouchaine Vineyards in Cool and Beautiful Carneros

I spent last week in Napa, in California. Hence I thought it apt to devote this week's post to a recent tasting I enjoyed of Bouchaine Chardonnay and Pinot Noir wines from Carneros, in Napa Valley. Th...

Recipe Recommendation: Risotto with Squash and Sage

An ubiquitous Italian dish in the fall and winter, Risotto di Zucca e Salvia, or Risotto with Squash and Sage, is a hearty meal that sticks to your ribs and fills your belly in the cold parts of the y...

Look! Arborio Rice at Trader Joe's

We're not sure if this is a new product or if it's been there all along, but we were excited to discover arborio rice on a recent shopping foray to Trader Joe's!...

Weekend Cooking: How to Make a Good Risotto

Risotto is a dish that's become associated with fancy high end restaurants, but really, it's the epitome of Italian home cooking and comfort food. Knowing how to make a good risotto is something we th...

Playing with Recipes: Pasta, Risotto-Style

Emma’s popular post on the best way to cook pasta triggered a vague memory of a no-boil method I had read about years ago. A few minutes of internet sleuthing and there it was: Alain Ducasse’s r...

How To: Make Risotto in a Rice Cooker

Not since a roommate in college had a rice maker have I played around with one. If I remember correctly, that one singed the bottom layer of rice and then broke before Thanksgiving break. Not much o...

Recipe: Spring Lemon Risotto with Asparagus and Fiddlehead Ferns

After two weeks away from our kitchen, we returned last week to find the market positively brimming with spring vegetables. When we'd left there were only the first signs of ramps, but now there was ...

Chocolate Pudding and Risotto for the Pope
From the NY Times Dining Section 04.23.2008

Chocolate pudding! Melissa Clark goes on an all-out quest to discover the chocolate pudding of her dreams in her piece You Call That Pudding, Grandma?. She comes back with not one but four decadent re...

Recipe: Caramel Risotto

Risottos and braises are not the same, since a risotto is not covered at any point in the cooking process. But they are related in that the rice is fried with butter at the beginning, then cooked sl...