The Sacred Art of Eating

This evening we realised we’d not taken anything out of the freezer last night as planned. So Dougal flicked through NE before I got home, sent me out for a couple of ingredients, and then we flung together a meal.

• Cheddar Cheese Risotto

This comes from the Comfort Food chapter, and rightly so. It was thick and cheesy and by no means whatsoever could be classed as healthy…but it’s almost zero out there, and blowing such a gale that the Forth Road Bridge is closed with structural damage…so it was spot on. I can still feel it sitting in my belly. It is, in fact, probably the only reason I am still warm enough, an hour after we finished eating.

The recipe called for baby leeks- these are WONCAS ingredients (waitrose only, no chance at somerfield) so I went for smallish leeks rather than the suggested substitution of fat spring onions. I have a strange relationship with spring onions and don’t always appreciate their inclusion in recipes; I wasn’t willing to risk their ruining the meal.

Not only did the rice cook nicely in the prescribed time, but the flavours did meld convincingly. I’m not a total devotee of the ‘cheese in risotto’ camp but this worked really well, perhaps because it was suitably far from my personal impression of what risotto ought to be like.

Went very nicely with a cheeky glass of white wine, I must say. Not a sophisticated meal, but a most satisfying one :-)

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