Hawaiian Chicken with Ginger and Peach is a chicken and rice dish with vaguely tropical sensibilities. If you’re expecting a traditional plate-lunch style chicken you’ll need to look elsewhere: this dish is more Nixon-era casserole than luau food. very salty rice pilaf topped with pan-seared chicken breast. The only thing even remotely Hawaiian about the……
Ingredient: long-grain white rice
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……