i follow too many accounts on instagram . . one of the accounts i follow is an italian cooking account. the woman is american and lives in italy . . her husband is italian. her mother-in-law makes this dish: tomatoes stuffed with arborio rice. she had a short movie demonstrating how to prepare it. it's incredibly simple: scoop out the tomatoes, mix it with rice and a little sea salt (i added oregano), let it sit for an hour or so, then scoop the filling into each hollowed out tomato (after adding a basil leaf to each one) and bake in a 350 degree oven for about 30 to 45 minutes. there was a bit of a problem with the cooking time (i needed to bake it much longer than suggested, and to baste it continuously so the rice would soak up the liquid), but finally the rice was soft enough to eat after two hours. chanda and greg declared it amazingly delicious and there were no leftovers.
after dinner we listened to a concert from the radio station wnyc/wqxr. they had musicians in each borough, whom they filmed performing and whose performances they streamed on facebook.
above is clarinetist anthony mcgill, who plays with the new york philharmonic. (you can hear the clink of greg's and my spoons as we were having sorbet while watching!)
they plan
to stream the show again this friday, between 12 noon and 2 pm - i shared the
villalobos brothers performing on staten island on my facebook page,
as i really enjoyed the last song they did, which side are you on? the link to facebook is here, and if you go to 19:29, you can hear the song. it's a beautiful setting, as they were on the boardwalk at dusk, with the verrazzano bridge in the background.
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greg met me at the hardware store today, to help carry home the groceries. i had to stop there in order to buy a new spray bottle for pluto's behavior modification. greg broke the squirter part of the one we have in a fit of frustration when pluto was prancing about in the middle of the night (rattling the heater and knocking books down).
You know, a friend of mine tried a recipe with rice and chicken in the oven once and the rice never got soft either. I wonder why it sometimes works and sometimes it does not.
ReplyDeleteI think it would have cooked more quickly if I had covered it.
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