On the menu for dinner were two items seemingly easy to cook, but actually required a fair bit of effort to prep. Clams in white wine sauce and saffron vegetable risotto.
Cleaning clams is tedious business. Soaking them and all that. Gotta put corn flour in there to rid it of weird smells and coax the sand out. We were lucky to have gotten really fresh clams from the supermarket today. It was free of all sand when we ate them.
The simplest risotto is the best. The evening's beautifully creamy and smooth risotto was a perfect balance of taste and consistency. The secret is in the vegetable stock. We lingered over every grain to savor its subtle flavors.
8 comments:
oh my! he can cook all these??!! what a sweetie.
ooh that looks good
hey,besides potions,what else stirs while in the kitchen??
hahahahaha!!
risotto is so tough to cook. the grains are hard to begin with. so difficult to achieve the same consistency. lots of stirring and perspiration. ugh.
man, the man really spoils the market. i can only do so well with eggs and instant noodles ya know?!
I'm sorry to have missed the rissotto!
ahhh...for love. without love,no man would willingly cook. only for the love of cooking, for the love of the company. how poetic. *grin*
Wow! You are really lucky! My man can only cook - instant noodles :P
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