The carrots have been grown in a cousin's garden and the spinach is simply bursting to be picked, then to be melted into my risotto and made into other light summer meals or even spinach pesto. My chard pesto from last year has been a great addition to my eating regime, providing a tasty spread for toast and jacket potatoes and rice cakes, of course, and especially nice on the spicy chilli rice cakes by Kallo.
Oh by the way, I've tasted their caramel flavoured rice cakes and well, they are jolly nice and perhaps too nice to be eaten frequently but very good when one is feeling just a little jaded and in need of something sweet to munch on!!!
Well, supper is almost ready and its not what I anticipated, for I didn't go to the garden in time - too hot, too hot! So, we are having the fresh garden carrots, some so tiny they are just morsels of carrot...plus fresh broad beans and Arborio rice, cooked in boiling water with a dash of salt and a gluten-free Kallo chicken stock cube and now those ingredients are cooked I've added a few baby mushrooms and a handful of diced ham, letting everything melt together in the boiled stock, while I finish writing up this post. (I thought diced ham so much more appropriate than slices for this dish!)
So, my boiling bath method does not really constitute "risotto" as such but, frankly, it's too hot to be standing in the kitchen stirring ladles of boiling water onto my rice and veggies and seasonings; I am not one wit abashed by this outrageous behaviour, for its summer time, a time for flirting with new ideas, new approaches and new fresh garden grown vegetables!
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| a little knob of butter was a magical touch...! Happy summer eating! Daisy xxx |
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