*Breakfast, Risotto, & Calzones, Oh My...*

This update is purely about recipes. These recipes are dishes that I saw on Food Network (Giada and Robin Miller) and copied out of memory. Yup, strictly memory, no recipe following. Woot! But first...



I. Love. Breakfast. Byaawww!!!


Ok now on to the recipes...



Mushroom Risotto

5 cups chicken broth
handful of mushrooms (i used the cheapy pre-sliced packaged ones)
3 T butter
1/2 a shallot/or onion
3 cloves garlic
1/4 c white wine
1 cup rice
1/2 cup Asiago cheese (grated)
1/2 cup Romano cheese (grated)
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese (grated)
parsley
salt/pepper

Simmer mushrooms with chicken broth. Do not over boil. About 20-30 minutes

Meanwhile, melt butter and saute shallot/onion and garlic for about 5 minutes. Add rice and stir around to coat. Add wine and keep stirring. With a slotted ladle scoop out mushrooms and let excess liquid out. Add to rice mixture. When wine is almost all absorbed by rice add in chicken broth one ladle amount at a time. **You need to be constantly stirring and mixing the rice mixture with the liquid or else it will burn** Keep adding broth to rice every 5 minutes until gone. When mixture is bubbly and creamy (about 30 minutes) and rice is soft add in cheese. Add salt and pepper and sprinkle parsley. Word!



Chicken Alfredo Calzone

refrigerated pizza dough
EVOO
salt/pepper
chicken breast pieces, cubed
cumin
shallot
Alfredo Sauce
Parmesan cheese
parsley
garlic
Italian seasoning


Preheat oven to 400 degrees. I used the packet mix Alfredo Sauce mixture...soooo good NOM! So follow that for Alfredo sauce. I also used the Pillsbury pizza dough. Unroll that and flatten out. Drizzle EVOO, salt and pepper over.

Heat a pan to medium-high heat and cook the chicken. Season with salt, pepper, and cumin. Slice a shallot and add to chicken.

When sauce is done smother over the pizza dough and sprinkle chopped up garlic around pizza. Distribute chicken and shallots around one half of the pizza. Sprinkle Parmesan cheese modestly over pizza. Fold over half of the pizza and pinch the sides close with fingers or with fork. Drizzle top with evoo to brown it and sprinkle parsley and Italian Seasoning. Cut three slits on top to let steam out and to prevent it from blowing up in the oven. Bake for 9-13 minutes, until brown.


NOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM to all you readers out there. Enjoy!