Missing Italy, not sure if there will be enough cash around to pop out for a week this year, so this evening I made a very simple, yet great risotto, accompanied by a simple green salad and a rustic baguette and  served it with very cold wine wine and loved every bit of it.

Risotto, as simple as they get, chopped shallot fried on butter, arborio rice added for a couple of minutes to soak it all in, then hot chicken stock, gradually poured in as well as wine wine. Some grated parmesan at the end, it hardly needed any seasoning thanks to good chicken stock. At the end I added a good handful of chopped fresh tomatoes and fresh basil and that was it. It was the simplicity that made it so tasty, I guess.

My green salad was mainly rocket, some more tomatoes, roasted pine nuts, good olive oil and good, thick balsamic, plus parmesan shavings on top. We destroyed the lot. Yum.