I took a shot at making risotto tonight. It turned out OK, but not great. The rice wasn't quite the right consistency, but it tasted good. I'm not sure if I screwed something up, or if the rice I was using just wasn't good. Either way, I'm definitely going to try again at some point.
I basically made up my own recipe, using
this random recipe and
this Alton Brown recipe as a basis, along with
this very useful page of general information. I saw the Good Eats episode on risotto quite some time ago, and I've been meaning to try it since then.
Just for future reference, I used mushrooms, asparagus, vegetable stock, Pinot Grigio, and fontina cheese, along with the other obvious ingredients (rice, onion, etc).
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