Fresh Risotto Recipe (courtesy of Wine Trail Traveler):
3 c water
2 c chicken broth
3 T butter or margarine, divided
1 lb fresh asparagus spears, diagonally sliced into 1-inch pieces
½ c chopped onion
1 c uncooked U.S. arborio or medium grain rice
1/3 c dry white wine
½ c heavy cream
¼ c grated Parmesan cheese
½ t salt
Directions
Heat water and broth in 2-quart saucepan over medium heat until it comes to a simmer. Reduce heat to low and keep warm. Meanwhile, melt 2 tablespoons butter in large saucepan over medium heat; add asparagus and cook until tender crisp. Remove asparagus; set aside. In same saucepan, cook onion in remaining 1 tablespoon butter until soft. Add rice and stir 2 to 3 minutes. Add wine; stir until absorbed. Increase heat to medium-high; stir in 1 cup water-broth mixture. Cook uncovered, stirring frequently, until liquid is absorbed. Continue stirring and adding remaining water-broth mixture 1 cup at a time, allowing each cup to be absorbed before adding another. Cook until rice is tender and mixture has a creamy consistency, approximately 25 to 30 minutes. Stir in asparagus, cream, cheese, salt and pepper. Stir until mixture is creamy, about 2 to 3 minutes. Serve immediately.
*One adjustment we make is to juice one lemon, and combine that with a lesser amount of the wine. For example, I juice the lemon into the 1/3 measuring cup. It usually fills it about half way, and then I fill it the rest of the way with wine.
I add sautéed shrimp to this recipe, as well. I simply sautee about a dozen shrimp in butter and sprinkle it with salt, pepper, and lemon juice (to taste). Let it cool a bit, and then cut it up into pieces. Add the shrimp to the risotto with the asparagus.
I recommend Pinot Grigio or Sauvignon blanc with this dish. It looks very fancy, but other than being very time consuming (it requires near continuous stirring), it's actually quite easy to make.
SOURCE: Mutterings and Musings
As I sit here completely dumbfounded by the events of this past weekend again I am reassured the choices I made to change my life were the right thing to do. My life has been drama free since I chose a new path. A path of freedom. A path out from under another persons control. My life has a sense of happiness and feelings of freedom I haven't felt for years. Yet narcisstic people who require control and aren't quite ready to give it up with a person will do anything and I mean anything to try to keep their control. And now I am faced with a different situation that doesn't involve someone trying to directly control me, but someone controling my child in an attempt to still control me. Let me tell you....I am a laid back, chill, go with the flow, patient, kind person BUT I am a mother bear. And you mess with my kids.......you are done.
Hell has no fury like a woman whose children have been hurt by another!!!!!
I recently spoke with a person who has been through this kind of thing. A person who came out of it on the other side....stronger, wiser, and kids in tact. This person told me when she was going through this her grandmother gave her some wise words. She told her to "pray for that person" WAIT WHAT?!?! Yes she said, "pray for that persons happiness" Praying for another persons happiness so they will stop thinking their happiness with be by bringing despair onto others. Just pray for them to be happy. Let me tell you after what I have seen and heard over this past weekend this is going to be a hard one. I have a burning fire inside me now like I have never had in my entire life. I will do anything to protect my children.
BUT I will pray. I will pray for this person to have happiness. I will pray like a son of a gun. I will pray for them every chance I get. BUT my silence and my sitting back and being laid back in this situation......is over!
"So run you cur. And.......the law is coming. ..........I'm coming! And Hell's coming with me you hear! Hell's coming with me!"
~Tombstone, Wyatt Earp
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