I don’t know Beth personally, I don’t comment on the site, but I check it routinely and have done so for years. Sometimes her directions will contradict some cooking best-practices I follow, but this is hardly an issue. Her recipes are solid and her spreadsheet-based approach for tabulating the cost of meals is inspiring.
I see you have correctly positioned the green veg so that they do not touch the egg. Well played!
ETA re the spaghetti - nicely done, but one day, perhaps try sprinkling the parmesan over the spaghetti and mixing it in before adding the bolognese sauce topping. A minor variation, but it somehow does make it more ‘cheesy’ and variety is, of course, the spice of life.
Now that’s odd - because MY version of risotto (cooked chicken and sweetcorn added to the onion and mushroom base after the rice and stock have gone in) always has the parmesan ONLY sprinkled on top!
What with this and the recent yoghurt/cheese disagreement, I’m beginning to wonder if I am the anti-you / you are the anti-me! (Only culinarily speaking, of course.)
No no no. Parmesan goes into the risotto when the rice is done. (And a bit is sprinkled on top later.)
A good ratio is around 80g parmesan for 250g rice (dry).
Chicken stock or vegetable consommé + a bit of wine.
Risotto with porcini(and/or chanterelles): red wine. Maybe some beef tenderloin on top, thin slices, sharp broiled…
Springtime risotto: white wine + white asparagus. Maybe a shot of Ricard or Pernod (it’s the same company anyway) to give it a little kick. Goes well with (white) fish.
And always: what is al dente for pasta is all’onda for risotto - just the right viscosity.
Salad days are sort of on hold right now. Which bums me out, I really like salad. (I do a mean vinaigrette.) But right now it’s one outing a week, combination of office run to shuttle files back and forth and then one stop at one retailer. And last Friday they just didn’t have anything appealing. Maybe I’ll have better luck next Friday.
But no worries, I had a check-up in January, and the bloodwork was excellent, to quote my GP.
So I should be good for a while, junk food is comfort food, and I’ll pop the occasional vitamin pill.