Perfectly cooked risotto incorporated shiitake mushrooms, a surprising but ideal foil for Italian rice.
Inside, the Lasnet children — Marcel, 13, Cecily, 11, Jasmine, 9, and Iris, 6 — were rolling around laughing, while the adults cooked risotto patties wrapped in bacon.
One of my favorite dishes there is a plate of perfectly cooked risotto with a snowfall of thin-sliced white truffle.
For the recent Hudson Valley Restaurant Week, he served a grilled trout with carrot farrotto (farro cooked risotto style), fresh dill and carrot-juice nage sauce and foam; diners liked it so much that he has decided to put it on the regular menu.
The equally excellent lamb, meanwhile, takes a place on the right, along with a lovely lamb carpaccio brightened by fava beans; an appetizer of shrimp-stuffed calamari in which potent blasts of orange don't quite fit; a nicely cooked risotto in which bonito and sea urchin join forces to stunning, lingering effect; and the salmon.
He often cooks risottos, pastas, things like that, but as he's Texan we often get fajitas, which all hit the spot.
We were making, or intending to make, farro, an ancient wheat variety that can be cooked risotto-style with broth, butter and Parmesan.
People can and often do learn how to cook a risotto by reading recipes in cookbooks.
Yield: Serves 4. Advance preparation: The broth can be made several hours before you wish to cook the risotto.
