ViLco wrote:
> Il 03/11/2010 17:55, zxcvbob ha scritto:
>
>> I will get there early enough to maybe have some influence over the menu
>> but I won't be running the show because I'm not the host. What should I
>> offer to make so DD can actually eat a festive meal and not just an
>> austere vegetable plate (with marshmallows)? I have some ideas,
> > ...
>
> You are a great dad, man, I really appreciate your enthusiasm about
> cooking up something worth your love for your daughter. I'm sure you'll
> feed her a very good holiday meal.
> The only thing I could recommend you that comes to mind is the "riso
> spinaci e grana" I posted about a month or two ago. It's just a bunch of
> guidelines: cook the spinach in few water and finish them with butter
> and put a lot of grated parmigiano cheese when you remove them from the
> fire.Meanwhile, cook the rice and mix it all up and serve it with a nice
> cheesecarrier ("formaggera", si cheese holder more correct?) loaded with
> grated parmigiano. Creaminess, coming from the butter and the starch
> from the rice, is the key to this very simple and rich dish, which
> feigns to semm healthy thank to the spinach but kills you with the darn,
> wonderful butter, LOL. Here it would get served as a first course, just
> after antipasto, I think you can manage it well in family your meal. A
> vegetarian who eats dairies could like it a bit, if not a lot.


Thanks. I don't think I'll have that much control over the menu at
MIL's house, but I'm saving this (and all the other recipes posted)
for Christmas when *I* will be the host.

Bob