Risotto with smoked chicken and veggies – recipe

With risotto and me, it wasn't love at first bite. Of the three 'great' staples of Italian cuisine - pizza, pasta and risotto (yes I know there's antipasti, prosciutto, panini, lasagna and whatnot, but you know what I mean), risotto was the last one that I was introduced to. Growing up in Delhi, pizza was…

Of real life monsters and French(???) rice

Fairy tales are so naïve. There are tomes written about monsters that are perpetually hungry and need to be fed all the time. Sigh…. No such luck in real life... As far as my experience with real life monsters (I have a 6 year old)  goes, they do not eat food and prefer to survive…