If you can still find it on the newsstand, you might want to pick up the September 2008 issue of the BBC’s GoodFood magazine (the UK edition), which runs about $8.99 here in the U.S. It’s marked “best of British” and throughout are recipes celebrating English fare. One reason why I bought this particular issue is for the Cornish pasties recipe on page 96. My husband loves them, so in the next few weeks I’ll test this recipe for him. The recipe in my old King Arthur baking book has never turned out well.
There’s also a risotto-making workshop in here. I’ll confess … I’m a total cheat when it comes to risotto: I use a pressure cooker. And don’t let anyone try to tell you otherwise, but Italian grandmothers make their risottos in pressure cookers, too. I will not be bullied or swayed here.
The recipe I chose was the butternut squash and sage risotto on page 53. I followed the directions almost to the T, except for the pressure cooker bit, and substituted homemade chicken stock for the vegetable stock. Our au pair, who wasn’t too enthusiastic about eating squash, ended up having three servings. Oliver, of course, wouldn’t touch it … too yellow, plus those green bits on the top? Eww, the horror, the horror.
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Loving this blog Di!
Have you seen the UK version of delicious. magazine? (I’m a big fan of the Australian edition.)
http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk
Deb, I *love* Delicious! However, I buy the Australian version — that’s the only one we have here. It’s always off by the season, but it’s still fun to read.