What's for Dinner?

I'm going to start posting recipes of the stuff I'm making for dinner.  Most of them are from Cooking Light Magazine, which was like my bible when I was losing weight last year.  The recipes are easy to make and 99.8% of them are delicious.

Also, I'm not one of those cooks who take a recipe and then substitute caviar for tomatoes.  I grew up with an Irish-American mother who's idea of a gourmet meal came from Market Day, so my kitchen skills are limited.  One of my secrets of losing 100 pounds last year was planning meals in advance and cooking a lot, so I want to get back on that bandwagon again.

Tonight I made Monterey Jack, Corn and Roasted Red Pepper Risotto from Cooking Light.

As you can see, I am QUITE the food photographer.  Too bad Gourmet Magazine is going under because I'm sure they'd hire me on the spot.  Also if I were on Top Chef, I'd get kicked off the first week due to my insipid plating and lack of skill in napkin folding.

Anyway, this is delicious.  I love rice and was known in the past for eating entire boxes of Rice-a-Roni for dinner.  This is the best rice dish I've ever had and I've made it approximately a million times.  Everyone I've ever made it for has loved it, including my sisters who are pickier about food than the Wicked Witch of the West is about footwear.

You have to stir it without stopping for 20 minutes.  I know this would discourage some people from even trying it, but I recommend singing rock operas while you stir, namely "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Evita," or in a pinch, "Rent."  That last one is a little hard to relate to once you have a mortgage and a career and stuff, but it still has some great numbers. 

I usually eat this all by itself, but I'm weird.  I think it'd be good with chicken or something Mexican, because it does have a little bit of a kick to it.