Saturday, April 30, 2011

Italian jobs

Hi everyone!

If you like okra and you like risotto, you'll love my world famous original silky-smooth Okrisotto! With all the silky smoothness of okra AND risotto! (if you had as much time on your hands as I do, you'd cook up some pretty interesting food for yourself)














Italians who read this will probably be furious, but then most Europeans I've met are (not uniformly, but) on average too uptight about their "culture". The difference is that the French say "zaat ees not fwwranssaayyy!" and the Italians say "daa ta eee sa nooo ta eetaliaaaaaaaannno!"

Okay, that's enough fun at the expense of the continental folk. I've never had much reverence to culture, especially when it comes to food. Another of my world famous recipes is hommus made with edamame beans and balsamic vinegar. It's really good (all hommus is better with balsamic).

Also, don't let anybody tell you you need special rise to make risotto. Use any old rice you want!

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In fact, I'm so amazing I invented a whole four different functional prefixes that describe a certain kind of risotto that I've recently developed.

Okri-sotto: risotto with okra

Curri-sotto: Curry risotto














Red-sotto: Risotto with whole red rice and beets














Waakye-sotto (waa chee sotto): Risotto and beans (waakye is a ghanaian rice and beans meal)

Combinations are possible: okurri-sotto is risotto with curry and okra.

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Now, after reading this, it is your duty to run out into the world and cook up some crazy stuff. Here's another family of foods that lend itself easily to modification: the pad's.

I think "pad" (the one in "pad Thai") simply means "fried", but since it's most commonly associated with fried noodles, you can go out and make your own pad-anything.

A few of you have eaten (also world famous) pad woon in Cambridge...

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