Wednesday, May 19, 2010

PUMPKIN & SAFFRON RISOTTO

I think I made my first risotto in 1982 after tasting my first risotto in a restaurant in Mantova a few months earlier. I don't know how many variations on a risotto them I've made since then. It's a lot. Favourites are crab, fennel and beetroot (which I first tasted in an Italian restaurant in LA). Our wonderful neighbours brought in a huge Japanese pumpkin yesterday with the weekly bag of lady finger bananas and passionfruit from their farm. I had some quail stock in the freezer, so these were combined with some saffron strands and other goodies to make this risotto. A sprinkling of fetta over the top to add a bit of tang.
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Posted by Greg Alder

2 comments:

  1. Amr MarzoukMay 20, 2010 at 5:14 PM

    At the end of 1982 you recommended a restaurant to me in Bologna which a year later got a Michelin Star . Had Risotto there ;Fennel .
    Went there by myself for lunch from Florence and it was very very cold . Sue T refused to wake up early to go there by train.
    Risotto is our idea of comfort food.
    Rosie says hello.

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  2. Greg AlderMay 21, 2010 at 9:45 AM

    Ah, Bologna. Funny how we call spaghetti with meat sauce spaghetti bolognese when the Bolognese themselves don't call it that. Not so weird now that I think about it. The French don't order French fries. A good town for eating. Nice markets. Not so keen on the ugliness of industry that surrounds the old town. I think that restaurant came (as did so many others I've really enjoyed in Italy) from a guide book called I Ristoranti di Veronelli (still being published, I see). Like Michelin - but a MUCH more useful guide to good food in Italy than the French can manage.

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