New Food Friday - Risotto

So as mentioned here I have decided its time to start actually making some of the yummy recipes Ive seen on TV and read in magazines. So this week I've tried risotto, made from scratch. I blame a boy from Form 2 (year 11?) for putting me off trying risotto. We had to interview each other and he told me his least favorite food was risotto ( the premix packet stuff), and so I must have decided I wont like it either. After giving it a try for lunch at a local cafe, I was a convert. However it looked so tricky to make, so Ive never tried until this week.

So.... I won't bother giving you a recipe...because to be honest I hate following recipes. So I goggled it and found a couple of recipes to (experiment) base mine on. This is a bacon, mushroom and basil pesto risotto

Ingredients...

First I did this....

then added these...

and this is the result...
One bacon, mushroom and basil pesto. Done. (as Ramsey says)

Food Critics Thumbs up/down?
I decided not to even try making the younger food critics (master 4 and miss 6) try this. I usually make them eat what ever I make for dinner veges in all, but I knew this would go down like a lead balloon. But Lesmond J (hubby) gave it two thumbs up, One thumb up from me and of course two thumbs up from bubba (3months). So 5 thumbs out of a total of 6 thumbs up. Would I try it again? Hmmm. Probably not. Standing over the pot stirring often and watching to see if the rice has absorbed the stock is not an ideal way to spend jungle hour (5-6pm) at my house.

Any suggestions about next New Food Friday?