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From: Ed P <esp@snet.n>
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Subject: Re: Risotto Last Night
Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 19:13:06 -0400
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On 5/7/2025 5:54 PM, Graham wrote:
> On 2025-05-07 3:05 p.m., 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.
>>
> 
> I've come across recipes for risotto in reliable publications
> where the liquid is all added at once and not ladle-by-ladle.
> However, I haven't tried that technique.


Never tried it, but I guess it could work.  When you make plain white 
rice it works that way.  I have to wonder if the flavors develop the 
same way though.