using up: cabbage, the very last of last week’s roast chicken. Now, I really didn’t expect this to work at all, but it was really nice, and will be added to my repertoire of cabbage recipes; we get a lot of cabbages in the veg box, so a new dish is quite exciting! I think…
Tag: risotto
fusion risotto
using up: cold roast duck, 1/4 tin coconut milk Now, this really was quite barking, and I wasn’t at all sure it would work, but nothing ventured, etc. As I said, there was more duck left on the carcass than we thought, so risotto seemed appropriate. Basic rule of risotto in this house is 5…
ris e bisi
This is one of our favourite things – you can use frozen peas for the, er, peas, but you really do need the pods for the stock, so we only have it in summer. Take about 500g of peas in the pod, and shell them. Put the pods in a pan with about 1l of…
asparagus and feta risotto
I didn’t take a photo because, to be honest, I was exhausted from too much Wii Tennis in the heat! So you’ll have to be satisifed with a repeat of the asparagus photo. I’m a big fan of risotto, although I must confess here to generally doing them in the oven as [whisper] Delia Smith…
pumpkin and apple risotto
After the aforementioned trying day yesterday, we fancied something simple and easy for supper. A rummage in the freezer brought forth a promising tub of mush, and so we had pumpkin and apple risotto. We make a lot of what I call risotto, but what purists would insist should be called an oven-baked rice dish,…
risi e bisi is fab!
just a note to remind myself how gorgeous this was – so gorgeous, in fact, that I have instructed Pete to save all the pea pods from his bag ‘o’ peas, and I will simmer them down with the rest of the chicken stock, and put it in the freezer. I’m sure frozen would be…