White Gazpacho is a make-ahead chilled soup perfect for a sweaty summer evening. This particular recipe is one of two White Gazpacho recipes in Buen Provecho: 500 Years of Hispanic Cuisine (1995), a community cookbook compiled by a group of Hispanic AT&T employees. Both versions were submitted by the same employee and are, fundamentally,……
Ingredient: chicken stock or low-sodium chicken broth
Long Grain Pistachio Risotto (adapted from Private Collection, Junior League of Palo Alto, 1980)
Long Grain Pistachio Risotto was a recipe born of necessity. Last Saturday I found some beautiful scallops at my local Asian market and made an impulse buy for Sunday dinner. I needed a couple of good sides to round out the meal. After ruling out pasta, polenta, and pilaf I remembered a risotto dish from……
Risotto alla Milanese (adapted from Private Collection, Junior League of Palo Alto, 1980)
The recipe that perhaps best exemplifies the Junior Leaguer spirit of Private Collection is Risotto alla Milanese. The author, we are assured, is a member of one of “Northern California’s oldest Italian families” with a “flair and elegance for entertaining”. While the recipe is assured to be a “crowd pleaser”, making a proper risotto is……