A friend gave me some zucchini from his garden, so I've decided to try making some ratatouille. I've never even eaten ratatouille, never mind cooked it, but it seems like something I should try. There are quite a few recipes out there on the internet: the weird one from the Pixar film, an interesting, but time-consuming, one here, one with mushrooms over here, and what I'm guessing is a tradional French version here. I think I'm going to go with something that's kind of a combination of recipes from two cookbooks I've got here at home.

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Beeramisu: Basically, tiramisu with beer in it. Maybe not as bad an idea as I'd originally thought.

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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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Lots of stuff this weekend. A visit to Morimoto's in Philly. Made a bunch of chocolate chip cookies. Watched the Giants win. (Yay!) And read a good deal of the Sunday New York Times.

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