Last Saturday I found some beautiful scallops at my local Asian market and made an impulse buy for Sunday dinner, without a firm meal plan to go with it.   After ruling out pasta, polenta, and pilaf I remembered a risotto dish from an old Junior League cookbook that I made for Mothers’ Day.   Risotto alla……

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……