I tried making vegetable and barley risotto yesterday with portobello steaks. I accidentally bought wheat berries. Did you know that making risotto out of wheat berries takes approximately two hundred hours? Neither did I, until I served my boyfriend dinner just in time to watch SNL. In the meantime:
- My roommate watched a movie "with several breaks."
- My boyfriend designed a website.
- Someone arrived, unpacked, and moved in across the street.
- I sang the entire cast albums of A Little Night Music, Company, and Follies.
- I fogged up the apartment until everything condensed and it began to rain indoors.
- I ate two bowls of cereal because I was too hungry to wait for dinner.
- I washed dishes three times.
- I started to hallucinate in the sweat lodge I'd created over the stove.
I sort of resent any meal that takes so long that it would have been easier to work at minimum wage for a fraction of the time and just buy the stupid thing myself. It was kind of good, though.
3 comments:
Really daft question, but what are wheat berries? Are they more berry or more wheat?
More wheat. I have no idea how wheat works, but they're kernelesque.
So you tried making risotto from the equivalent of unpopped popcorn*? You clearly have your boyfriend well trained.
* It was that or some weak pun on 'kernelesque', but I figure if the person telling the joke has to Google the command structure of the army then maybe it's not such a good joke.
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