What is your relation to risotto?
By marguicha
@marguicha (230350)
Chile
December 6, 2010 10:16am CST
Risotto is one of my favorite meals and I cook it a lot when I have two couples for dinner. I just set the wok on the table and make everyone happy with the seconds.
I make it with whatever I have in my fridge although I throw in something special for guests. Shrimps are wonderful to add in a seafood risotto made with frozen or canned seafood. Fresh mushrooms or artichoke hearts add a zest to vegetable risottos.
What is your favorite? Share!
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6 responses
@Valene82 (89)
• United States
6 Dec 10
I have never made real risotto I don't think, but I have cooked with arborio rice which is what you use to make risotto, right? I made paella a few weeks ago with arborio rice and it turned out pretty well except I learned that if you cooked it too long with too much liquid, it will get smushed and pasty. I put mixed seafood and veggies in it and it tasted pretty good.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
29 Jan 11
Hiya margi,
Me I love Risotto too. However I am the only one that does like it. So I only get to try it if I eat out and that is not very often either. But that does not take away the fact that I like it and will always eat it wherever I am.
Risotto goes down a treat with most. I did make some and bought some already made they liked neither of them. So I gave up on them. It´s no good trying to talk to a brick Wall is it?
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
30 Jan 11
I know what you mean. I did not eat several dishes I loved for the almost forty years of my marriage. I had to go to my mom´s house (without my husband) when she made garbanzos. There were other foods he never liked. When we got married I told him to make a list of the 20 dishes he most hated. I was entitled to make the Nº 21.
He looked at me and said he was not that picky. He started the list and I evilly made some sugestions.
. When he reached the end of his list and discovered that he had left out a lot of gross foods (garbanzos, callos and other yummy food), he said I was cheating!
I agree: it´s no good trying to talk to a brick wall
. When he reached the end of his list and discovered that he had left out a lot of gross foods (garbanzos, callos and other yummy food), he said I was cheating!I agree: it´s no good trying to talk to a brick wall1 person likes this
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
31 Jan 11
Hiya margi,
Ha you already had him worked out then right from the start. That was a very good idea. I have done something similar only to find that when I don´t put a certain thing they come up with "who says that I don´t like that"? Again like talking to a brick Wall. A brick Wall is liable to give me more answers gal.
Yes he did miss out a lot of yummy food too.
A lot of Days they are getting to eat what I have enough in my purse to buy and seeing as it´s the last Day in January they are not complaining too much at least not yet.
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
18 Dec 10
I've only ever had risotto reconstituted out odf a packet. I didn't like it as it was quite bland. I like rich, tasty food.
What's the difference between risotto and paella? You always make your food sound so yummy Margy that I end up hungry...
@shaggin (74987)
• United States
7 Dec 10
I have never eaten Risotto. I dont even know what it is. I remember watching hells kitchen and Risotto was one of the dishes that the chefs would have to make a lot. It seems like it would be hard to make because they were always getting it wrong and then the top chef whatever the guys name was would scream at them so bad. I loved watching that show lol. I would never be able to be a chef after watching that show.
@ersmommy1 (12587)
• United States
7 Dec 10
My hubby is the better cook in the family. But I do like risotto. I will have to try the artichoke hearts. It sounds yummy.
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
8 Dec 10
I it wonderful. But in my country artichokes have to be bought in season. That´s Spring and part of Summer. Later on they bring it from elsewhere and are morew expensive. In season I buy 5 or 6 artichokes for $2, enough to make a big risotto and use the scraped cooked meat for a wonderful pasta with artichoke meat and olive oil.
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
6 Dec 10
is risotto like a soup? im not sure of what it is. we probably cook it here but call it something else. i know there are things my mom and i have cooked that even people here in the same country call something else or have a different name for it in other words.
