Sunday Cooking

When I saw this recipe, a take on "Sunday Pot Roast," I couldn't help but make it. Hours of time and tons of ingredients, but you know I love that.

The dish is basically this:

1. Make an awesome cheesy and lemony risotto*, then make that into patties that are breaded and pan fried. (Risotto cakes)

2. Top them with a seared chuck roast slowly braised in a red wine-beef broth with veggies and herbs.

3. Top it all off with a little salad of watercress and parsley, dressed with lemon juice, olive oil, and toasted almonds.

* I gotta plug risotto again. For me, making risotto is like raking a calming zen rock garden that you get to eat. One of my favorite cookbooks, Tom Valenti's One Pot Meals, says of risotto, "It's the Leonard Zelig of Italian gastronomy–a dish that takes on the character of whatever you stir into it. (Leonard Zelig is the Woody Allen character in the film of the same name who took on the physical traits of whomever he came into contact with. If you've never seen it, rent it.)"