Arborio Rice
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Oven Risotto
This is a long-standing favorite recipe of my husband’s, and if you’ve been over for dinner in the winter, I most likely have made this dish. I’ve been making this recipe for YEARS – what are the chances that one of my favorite food bloggers, Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, posts her own oven baked risotto recipe this week?!
My Uncle Mark made this risotto for me when I visited him in San Francisco during my spring break my junior year of college at Iowa State. Such a fun trip – as a Hotel, Restaurant, and Institution Management major, his goal was to take me to as many restaurants and bars in San Francisco that we could squeeze in that week. I fell in love with the city, and immediately fell in love with his recipe. We ate it with steamed crab from Fisherman’s Wharf and some sourdough bread, which was heavenly! Might have been the only meal we ate at home that week, and it definitely left an impression! I still have the index card I wrote his recipe on, and have morphed it into my own over the years.