Sunday, November 14, 2010

day four

woke to rain, brilliant, a wonderful excuse to stay indoors and quilt.  Lost 3 1/2 hours sleep time last night, so a bit below par this morning. 

Quilted, watched a doco and made Yellow Tomato and Parmesan Salad for Lunch, and for dinner a Risotto, based on the oven baked Risotto with Bacon and Peas. (Donna Hay 'the instant cook' P66.
Followed the recipe but halved the ingredients, after 25 mins there was a lot of stock still in the dish, transferred it to the oven top and stirred, risotto became very creamy and incorporated all the stock.
Sliced a chicken breast and lightly pan fried it in the same pan I used for the bacon and leeks.

This risotto would be nice served with a salad, but tonight I relied on the peas.  Very tasty dish, more so than the pic in the cookbook would lead you to believe.
Forgot to take a pic.  so here is something completely different.....the view through the french doors of my sewing room to the house across the street.....talk about seeing just what you want to see....all I ever notice is the lovely flowers, the pic is reality, warts and all.

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