Last Night’s Risotto

Home late but won’t settle for an instant dinner. Risotto it is- because it’s not pasta or noodles or stir fry over rice.

Jasmine rice mixed with a long grain black wild rice. Sauteed onions, capers, red pepper flakes. Herbs that look like weed- parsley, basil and oregano. Veggie sausage, broccoli, baby spinach, pesto and a few shakes of parmesan (sure I bastardized it). Cook with lots of water (poured in small intervals) and some white wine if you so desire. Stir ad infinitum or at least until rice is soft and a bit gooey.

What I think I used:

2 cups jasmine rice

1 cup long grain black wild rice

1 small onion chopped

1 tablespoon of capers (kalamata olives would be nice as well)

1 teaspoon red pepper flakes

a few shakes of marijuana wanna-be’s

4 veggie sausage chopped into cubes

3 cups chopped broccoli

3 fist-fulls of spinach

3 or 4 tablespoons of pesto

1 quart of water (maybe more- I can’t remember)

salt & pepper

grated parmesan to taste

tip w/ risotto: have your stock/water boiling in another pot so it’s hot and ready the entire cooking process.

I like risotto because it’s sophisticated geriatric food.

2 years ago