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From: Ed P <esp@snet.n>
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Subject: Re: Risotto Last Night
Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 19:08:40 -0400
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On 5/7/2025 5:05 PM, songbird wrote:
> Ed P wrote:
>> Cooking for one, there are some dishes I pass on, one of them is
>> risotto.  I can scale it down, but it takes the same time to make a
>> small batch as a normal one.   Yesterday afternoon, my granddaughter
>> came over to help with an outdoor cleaning project.  So, I'm making
>> dinner.
>>
>> We both had a serving for dinner and enough left that we'll each have it
>> another night.  It has probably been a year since I enjoyed it.
> 
>    it is one of those dishes that sounds ok, but likely i'll
> never make it because i'm not a huge fan of rice (other than
> rice pudding which i do like because of the raisins, nutmeg
> and custard if you make an egg version).  Mom certainly won't
> make it, she doesn't have the patience for that sort of
> cooking.

It is the only rice dish I make.  The rice is really a flavor carrier 
and helps round out the other ingredients, sausage, peas, Parm cheese, 
heavy cream, broth.

Try it sometime, you may be surprise how much you like it.