My best friend gave me this recipe untested and we agreed to make it for our families on the same weekend. Here, there, following the same recipe -- kinda cool, right?!? A real together-thing to do despite the miles, right?!? RIGHT!!!

We compared notes afterwards and I'm still laughing! Something tells me these wouldn't have tasted anything alike, but they were both a success!! The "real" recipe is shown below. Our variations explained! Hey, wanna make this really fun? Send me your variations! We'll see how many risottos (risottii?!) we can come up with!!!