I realized the other day that with still having around 150 recipes to make and considering that I've been doing this for 6 months alreadyand made only around 50 recipes. That means another year and half before I'm thru this book if I maintain current pace...so Ive decided to step it up. So tonight I made 2 recipes for dinner risotto and salad. Too bad Husband wasn't home to enjoy it with me because tonights dinner was deliscious!
I came home from work and decided my approach to this would be to get the risotto started and while that cooked I would make the salad. This nearly worked. I pulled all my ingredients for both recipes and then started to chop and prep. First I started the chopping of the leeks for the risotto and weighing the cheese etc. Immediately there's a problem because Nigella says 2 baby leeks..I have regular leeks. I decided that 1 regular leek equals 2 baby leeks and proceeded from there. I'm melting my butter and oil while I do this and it's starting to sizzle so I add the leeks quickly..then as I'm chopping and weighing the cheese I read that I'm actually supposed to be stirring the leeks while they saute..so I turn to do that. Then I turn back to finish my cheese and realize it's time for the risotto to go in but I haven't measured that out yet. So I clear the scale, get a bowl and measure it out while giving the leeks another stir and dump the risotto in the fry pan. I think 'I better do something for the salad'. So I flip to the salad recipe and see I need the full head of lettuce. I try to get that out of the package but the packaging is being a real bugger to open. Meanwhile my risotto is sizzling away so I turn to stir it and realize I have to get the mustard and the wine in. Neither of which are measured out. So I quickly do that portioning and add them to the fry pan and turn back to the lettuce...The scene continues like this for the entire time I'm making dinner. If Husband had been home he'd have seen my hair start to frizz I'm sure. Eventully though I did get everything together and then decided that after all my hard work I deserved a drink. So I made myself a Lemonade and Limoncello...Which I think I'll call an LL after my crazy aunt. (The one that carpeted her drive way to keep the weeds down..see a little crazy but no one gets hurt - right Aunt LL!?!?!?!) So I pull out the blender toss in a lemon, soda water, some organicn free trade sugar and my limoncello and boom...no literally boom! My drink is made and my dinner is made but looking around my kitchen it looks like a bomb went off and sent food and dirty dishes and recycling and compost EVERYWHERE. I can't stand this kind of mess.
I decide I need to do a little cleaning before I eat my nice meal - otherwise I just won't enjoy it knowing the kitchen is a disaster. So I do a little cleaning here and there and put the extra risotto in tupperware for lunch tomorrow and decide I'll give it a little taste test with what's left on the wooden spoon. It was soooooo good. I couldn't stop myself I sucked every morsel of food off that wooden spoon and then turned to the ladel which also had risotto residue on it and licked that clean too. This is completely ridiculous of me as I had a bowl sitting waiting for me to eat but it was like licking the beaters after your mom makes a chocolate cake mix....soooo yummy!
Anyhow, after that poor display of judgement and self control I decided maybe it was time to start eating dinner for real.
I sat down and took a taste of the risotto...which I'd already shamefully had some of...just as good from the bowl. I should maybe tell you I think the quality of the cheese will have massive impact on your recipe. I used 8 year old cheddar - soooooo yummy. I then tasted the Chef's Salad. This was great too. I even liked the canned corn in the salad - this is saying some thing because I HATE canned veg. I wasn't going to buy it but I decided I would give it a shot and it paid off. I didn't add the ham that's called for in the salad and I didn't do a replacement for it. Just left it out completely. Deliscious. I recommed both these recipes but if you make them together perhaps don't make them at exactly the same time.
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