Tag Archives: rice

Rice pilaf with toasted soba noodles

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Rivertree kitchen

There’s a pasta cooking technique that involves breaking thin noodles (usually spaghetti or linguine) in small pieces, frying them until golden in copious amounts of oil, then boiling them as usual. The result is tender pasta with lots of flavor … Continue reading →

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BLT risotto

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Rivertree kitchen

I confess I was not riding the bacon bandwagon. It wasn’t that I disliked bacon; I just didn’t think it was a necessity of life. But my experience had been limited to preservative-laden, shrink-wrapped supermarket bacon. I hadn’t had locally … Continue reading →

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Risotto: day three; dogs: day five

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Rivertree kitchen

Dogs first: The girls are settling in nicely. Cleo’s taken over the new bed and dish we bought for Libby; Libby’s appropriated all the rawhides. Both are fine with this arrangement. Libby has already learned that dogs are required to sit … Continue reading →

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New puppy! Oh, and some awesome peppers.

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Rivertree kitchen

Last May we adopted a five-month-old beagle mix and named her Cleo. She had been born in a shelter, and was labeled “special needs” for her debilitating shyness: she was frightened by everything except other dogs. Nearly a year later, … Continue reading →

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Risotto: the basics

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Rivertree kitchen

Ask my husband what his favorite food is, and he’ll undoubtedly say risotto. (Food that I make, that is; his favorite food of all time is crab cakes, which I rarely prepare, unfortunately.) Risotto is elegant and comforting at the … Continue reading →

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