Sunday, March 15, 2009

White Asparagus!

My first time cooking with white asparagus! AaaaaaaSo this might not look so appealing from the picture, but man it tasted good! This was a white asparagus-mushroom risotto, used a mix of 2 rice types, a couple onions, and cooked them risotto-style with half and half vegetable broth and white wine, near the end adding in the asparagus and finally the mushrooms into the mixture.
Finished it off with salt and pepper and a thin sprinkling of Grand Padano cheese (cheaper here than parmesan) then mixed through the whole dish..

I was bedridden ill this last week, but had made a huge batch of this (to use up 1.5 kg of white asparagus) just before it got bad, and this dish got me through the week...was a really good comfort food while I was in the slumps!

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