Comments on: what’s cooking wednesday: risotto with pancetta & peas

By: The Other Girl

The Other Girl — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 02:43:00 +0000

Maybe it’s because I’m Japanese, but I studiously avoided risotto for years. The idea of butter and cheese in rice just sounded … not even not appetizing, but practically blasphemous. Then a few years ago, on a whim, I ordered a seafood risotto in a restaurant and oh. my. god. It was all I could do to not take my bowl, walk around the restaurant offering bites to people, and daring them not to admit it was the best thing they had ever eaten in their lives. So I’m a big risotto convert (even though a small bowl of plain white rice and pickled radish still makes me insanely happy).

By: Nadine

Nadine — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:16:00 +0000

I love Risotto, this looks like a good receipe. Thank you for sharing.

By: Shan

Shan — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:28:00 +0000

Risotto has always seemed really intimidating, but this seems easy. This I could try and very likely love. Thanks!

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:17:00 +0000

I know you’re a sister in arms when I say that risotto is, head and shoulders above the rest, the ultimate comfort food. I could eat it anytime, pretty much any way. Your recipe makes me wish I made risotto again tonight.

By: Ninotchka

Ninotchka — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:25:00 +0000

Looks absolutely divvy!

By: The (Mis)Adventures of a Single City Chick

The (Mis)Adventures of a Single City Chick — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:38:00 +0000

I grew up eating risotto, too. Specifically Risotto Milanese, or “Yellow Rice” as we called it in my family when we were kids. Funny how some things never change. We still refer to it as that. It uses chicken broth, red wine, butter, parmesean cheese and the most important ingredient…saffron. My grandparents and great aunts/uncles used to grow it themselves until they got too old and/or passed away. Rainy Seattle is definitely not the environment for growing it, so I must make due with the stash I have hoarded away in my freezer. Seriously, it’s treated like gold in my family with how expensive it would be if we had to actually buy it. You do NOT give it away and it’s only made for family or special friends. LOL! But that will always be my absolute favorite. It’s one of the few recipes (that and meatballs and crustollis) that I can make from what my grandma handed down from her mother. Dang. It’s 7:36am and I am now craving risotto. Sigh. I’ll have to try your recipe, too. I’m loving “What’s Cooking Wenesdays.”

Christina

By: Laini Taylor

Laini Taylor — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:34:00 +0000

Ooh, I love risotto, and I also stir it however I feel like! And I do recall that when I lived in Southern Italy (Gaeta) the culinary landscape was dominated by pizza and pasta. A friend came to visit us in Belgium after we moved away, a 20-something mammino (I think that’s how you say mama’s boy?) and he was so anxious if he couldn’t have pasta every single day like his mama made him at home!

By: Waspgoddess

Waspgoddess — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:11:00 +0000

Risotto, yum yum. But unfortunately there is a ban on starchy delicacies like these for a while in this house. I’m on day 7 on 43 day challenge to look hot on 38th birthday and when I weighed myself this morning it was exactly the same as a week ago. Aaarrghhh… but I must persevere. There is a delicious risotto recipe waiting for me at the end (and your gorgeous sounding carbonara from a few weeks ago).

By: goodthomas

goodthomas — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:07:00 +0000

It is 9:02 in Chicago and this little Italian boy is very, very hungry.

That looks sooooo good. Yummy.

By: nyc/caribbean ragazza

nyc/caribbean ragazza — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:57:00 +0000

I will be making this. Mi piace risotto.