Tag: Italian

I never made Risotto before but do enjoy it very much. I stumbled over Chef Jean Pierre’s Recipe and it turned out great. Will make this again ­ maybe next time I can try making a mushroom Risotto.

I had a lot of pasta sheets leftover from yesterday’s Lasagna-feast. Like a lot. But sadly no more meat sauce. I figured there’s white pizza so I could definitely make a white lasagna. The overall idea was to make a Bechamel sauce but infuse it with shallots and leeks, just because I had some in my fridge. I think sun-dried tomatoes would have been really good in this, but I didn’t have any, so I went for roasted red peppers.

I made lasagna al forno today. I made the meat sauce as usual, except I added some pancetta. This actually was really good except it rendered a ton of fat into the sauce that I had to skim off. Next time I should probably render the fat first before adding into the sauce. The other difference was that I used Kirkland brand canned tomatoes and they didn’t cook down as nicely as San Marzano tomatoes.

Made Chicken Cacciatore using Cafe Delites recipe and creamy zucchini to go with it.

Had a nice Porcetta sandwich as a snack. Really liked the combination of pesto, pork, roasted peppers, and the broccolini.

We made pizza and they came out beautifully. Dough is based on Joe Heffernan’s Recipe and was baked in hot preheated oven at 470° F convection for three minutes and then broiled for 2 minutes.