Mmm, squash risotto.
Nov. 2nd, 2005 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rikibethMind you, although I made it with the house vegetarian in mind, she decided she didn't like it.
You see, I had a limited time to come up with a dinner thing, because I had to pick![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
melovechocolate up from school at 3, and get her to her 4:30 tae kwon do class, so dinner prep had to happen between those two times. So it ideally had to be something that could crockpot or otherwise cook unattended.
What I thought of was the rice cooker.
So I diced three onions and some celery, and sautéed them in olive oil with a little of a tarragon-based herb mixture, and scooped out the seeds and cubed up the flesh of half a red kuri squash that I'd used up the other half of last night, in Moosewood's Gypsy Soup recipe (we were supposed to carve them like pumpkins but I was TIRED), and tossed them in to soften a little, and then put 3 cups of arborio rice into the cooker, stirred in the vegetables, added 8 cups of water and 1/2 cup of sherry, closed the lid, and pressed the button.
I've got a bowl now, with more salt and pepper, and sprinkled with cheddar cheese. It is YUMMY.
The vegetarian kiddo ate a Chinese vegetarian bao.
*sigh* At least she really likes Gypsy Soup.
You see, I had a limited time to come up with a dinner thing, because I had to pick
melovechocolate up from school at 3, and get her to her 4:30 tae kwon do class, so dinner prep had to happen between those two times. So it ideally had to be something that could crockpot or otherwise cook unattended.What I thought of was the rice cooker.
So I diced three onions and some celery, and sautéed them in olive oil with a little of a tarragon-based herb mixture, and scooped out the seeds and cubed up the flesh of half a red kuri squash that I'd used up the other half of last night, in Moosewood's Gypsy Soup recipe (we were supposed to carve them like pumpkins but I was TIRED), and tossed them in to soften a little, and then put 3 cups of arborio rice into the cooker, stirred in the vegetables, added 8 cups of water and 1/2 cup of sherry, closed the lid, and pressed the button.
I've got a bowl now, with more salt and pepper, and sprinkled with cheddar cheese. It is YUMMY.
The vegetarian kiddo ate a Chinese vegetarian bao.
*sigh* At least she really likes Gypsy Soup.
