to put cheddar cheese on top of my risotto?

[TrillianAstra]

I know it's not traditional, but I want the feel of chewy melted cheese. There's already chorizo in the risotto so it's not exactly pure Italian to begin with.

DP won't mind - he loooves cheese. Apparently it was rationed when he was a child. By his mum, not by the government, he's not that old.

YABU how dare you not have parmesan ready grated in your fridge

I've only got some because food freak dp bought it.

Love your name btw, I am fond of piggies, especially Peppa and Wibbly (relatives of yours perhaps?)

sleep well.

I am not really a piggy at all I am one of these!!

My mum is from deepest darset (the sort of place where the only cheese is mild - for tasty you have to go to town) where they call a chukkypig a chukkypig and a woodouse is just for them poncey london types.

Here in Oz, one of my first discoveries was that hard "cheddar" cheese comes in
Mild
Tasty
Extra Tasty
Vintage
with variations of
Normal (obviously not called that, it's implicit :-)
Light
Extra Light

in the US of course I had my eyes opened to "yellow cheese" and "red cheese" but I didn't have to live with the idea for more than a few days at a time. It's been a hard lesson in cultural differences.

I suppose my ideal would be extra light vintage, but I can only find extra light extra tasty........ which tastes like yummy but feels like candle wax.

I wouldn't put cheddar on risotto, but only because I don't like cheese on risotto (i know, it's pretty much compulsory).

J

Chukky [disappointed emoticon]

Oh well, I guess that woodlouse as a mnet name just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Sorry to disappoint lollipop. As chukkypigs go though I am a very nice one who only slightly gets in your skirting board.

Bizarrely i am not at all fond of creepy crawlies and will run screaming from a centipede, but maybe due to the name I have no problem with chullypigs and will even pick them up and put them outside if i fnd them in the house...

Maybe if spiders were called fluffkins there would be less arachnophobia? Worth a research grant I think...

My little bro used to called woodlice 'peters'. Not sure why. It does make them into a 'good' bug though, like ladybirds.

YABVVVU

Exactly trillian exactly. Woodlice are cute and lovely and friendly. Just like ladybirds.

Whereas things like millipedes, while on the suface very similar, are actually evil and scary.

It's just so obvious.

This may have already been said, but there's a cheddar cheese risotto recipe in the Nigela Express book.