Arborio rice grains
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Monday, April 29, 2019
Risotto Milanese.
So pretty to say it’s worth repeating until we say it like a native.
No.
Not a Native American.
A native of the country the phrase is indigenous to, in this case, Italy – La Bell’Italia.
Approaching this dish, if we didn’t know it already, we should first realize that for cooking purposes, we don’t cook ‘rice,’ we cook ‘adjective’ rice, either Asian or African in origin, and those broken down even further, each having its own characteristics.
For Risotto Milanese we will be using ‘arborio’ rice.
Arborio rice is an Italian short-grain rice named after the town of Arborio, in the Po Valley, which is situated in the main growing region of Doron.
When cooked, the rounded grains are firm, and creamy and chewy compared to other rices, due to their higher amylopectin starch content.
It has a starchy taste and blends well with other flavors.
Arborio rice is often used to make risotto; other suitable varieties include Carnaroli, Maratelli, Baldo, and Vialone Nano.
Arborio rice is also usually used for rice pudding.
Arborio is a cultivar of the Japonica group of varieties of Oryza sativa..
Here, we like cooking it in the traditional manner, which we explain herein.
Risotto Milanese.
The four days following may bring us rain.
Let’s actively enjoy our time despite the weather.
If we don’t, the hours will tick away and another day will click past.
Unnoticed.
Unappreciated.
Tick Tock.
In clock language:
Enjoy today.
Enjoy the week.
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Postings Count, Weather Brief, and Dinner
Monday, April 29, 2019
My 388th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 388 posts we’re at the 7.76% mark of my commitment, the commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Time is 12.01am.
On Monday, Boston’s temperature will reach a high of 57* with a feels-like of 57* with sunny skies.
Dinner for tonight will be Osso Buco.
Osso buco with Risotto Milanese.
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Question of the Day:
What is Risotto Milanese?
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Short Takes:
Much time and attention being spent on recasting the underpinnings of the blog to maintain and improve the quality of the blog.
Hopefully, over the hump on Monday afternoon.
Meanwhile, enjoy a chuckle.
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Chuckle for Monday, April 29, 2019
“I’ve been happily married for six years.”
“That’s pretty good.”
“Six out of thirty? Not so much.”
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Answer to the Question of the Day:
What is Risotto Milanese?
Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice).
As a cereal grain, it is the most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in Asia.
It is the agricultural commodity with the third-highest worldwide production (rice, 741.5 million tons in 2014), after sugarcane (1.9 billion tons) and maize (1.0 billion tons).
Risotto Milanese with Mushrooms
Since sizable portions of sugarcane and maize crops are used for purposes other than human consumption, rice is the most important grain with regard to human nutrition and caloric intake, providing more than one-fifth of the calories consumed worldwide by humans.
There are many varieties of rice and culinary preferences tend to vary regionally.
Rice cultivation is well-suited to countries and regions with low labor costs and high rainfall, as it is labor-intensive to cultivate and requires ample water.
However, rice can be grown practically anywhere, even on a steep hill or mountain area with the use of water-controlling terrace systems.
Although its parent species are native to Asia and certain parts of Africa, centuries of trade and exportation have made it commonplace in many cultures worldwide.
Oryza sativa, commonly known as Asian rice, is the plant species most commonly referred to in English as rice. Oryza sativa is a grass with a genome consisting of 430Mb across 12 chromosomes. It is renowned for being easy to genetically modify, and is a model organism for cereal biology.
Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen - List of Koehler Images
The traditional method for cultivating rice is flooding the fields while, or after, setting the young seedlings.
This simple method requires sound planning and servicing of the water damming and channeling, but reduces the growth of less robust weed and pest plants that have no submerged growth state, and deters vermin.
While flooding is not mandatory for the cultivation of rice, all other methods of irrigation require higher effort in weed and pest control during growth periods and a different approach for fertilizing the soil.
The varieties of rice are typically classified as long-, medium-, and short-grained.
The grains of long-grain rice (high in amylose) tend to remain intact after cooking; medium-grain rice (high in amylopectin) becomes more sticky.
Medium-grain rice is used for sweet dishes, for risotto in Italy, and many rice dishes, such as arròs negre, in Spain.
Some varieties of long-grain rice that are high in amylopectin, known as Thai Sticky rice, are usually steamed.
A stickier medium-grain rice is used for sushi; the stickiness allows rice to hold its shape when molded. Medium-grain rice is used extensively in Japan, including to accompany savory dishes, where it is usually served plain in a separate dish.
Short-grain rice is often used for rice pudding.
The name wild rice is usually used for species of the genera Zizania and Porteresia, both wild and domesticated, although the term may also be used for primitive or uncultivated varieties of Oryza.
I just put my tablet back.
Opening the blog I see that this is entirely about food.
Would prefer a little variety.
Methinks the bloggers are rather caught up with learning how to move forward.
Will be happy to welcome you bloggers back to you more interesting postings.
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Good Morning on this Monday, the Twenty-Ninth Day of April.
We posted a thought on our fondness for Risotto Milanese and in short order, we counted our postings, talked about the weather, and decided on Risotto Milanese for dinner.
We posted a note explaining where a lot of our time is going these days.
We posted a chuckle:6 out of 30.
Our q and a dealt with the making of Risotto Milanese.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.