So, tonight was round one of sausage dinners. Let me start out by saying that before I started this project I would have thought myself a decent cook. Not afraid to try new things, open-minded, experimental. Ugh - apparently not true. Because tonight, I made risotto for the first time. Seriously, poached eggs, galettes, risottos - what else have I not made? Anyway, I'm very familiar with what a risotto is, but I never made one before because rice has never been a favorite of mine minus that which is swimming in soy sauce or served within my mom's stir fry. I learned, though, that you can hardly refer to risotto as a rice dish since it is swamped with other things - in this case tomato, sausage, onion, spinach, parmesan. It was horrible...complete lie. I just wanted to type some different for once. In an attempt to avoid redundancy, let me refer to my thesaurus here. This dish was ambrosial. How's that for a new one? Actually, that word more refers to the wonderful smell it emitted, but let me just tell you about that smell. The dish had white wine in it (Ah - another new one for me! I never cook with alcohol cause we never have it in the house. Please don't hold this against me Deb.) Two minutes after I added it to the dish, my husband walked in the house and exclaimed "Something smells good!" To which I replied "It's the wine!" Gracious what a difference it made in flavor, too! I'm overjoyed that there are several servings leftover for the next couple days.
After dinner, it dawned on me that I had only made one recipe for the day. That just wouldn't do. So I scanned the eternal list of cakes and managed to find one in which I had all ingredients on hand. Chocolate muffin/cupcake darlings that - get this - Deb says you can eat with breakfast. Another reason for my children to love me? Yes please.
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- Tomato and Sausage Risotto
- Chocolate Yogurt Snack Cakes
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