Stirring rice around and around for half an hour is a commitment. It takes multiple pots and time but thats good for us. Life is nice in slow motion. Especially when it’s in a kitchen where Hughes talks about the life of an almost 7 year old boy. Stories of kickball and making a pop-up book in his art class about our cat with 3 legs. I’m positive this constant grinning is fulfilling my ambition for great smile lines.
This recipe is inspiration from a wonderful book ‘Breakfast, Lunch, Tea: The Many Little Meals of Rose Bakery’. It’s completely customizable* so please find someone adorable to cook with and make your very own or Hughes’ favorite…
Oven Roasted Tomato Risotto
Ingredients
serves 2 adults and 2 small children
Preparation
Preheat oven to 225 and place tomatoes in a small sheet with 1 tablespoon of olive oil, reserving the remaining for risotto. Season with salt and pepper. Roast tomatoes until caramelized, about one hour.
Start chicken broth in small saucepan with additional 1 cup water over low heat. Grate cheese. In a large skillet over medium heat add the olive oil. Heat until rippling and add onion and garlic for two minutes. Add the rice to toast for around 3 minutes. When golden pull of flame and add white wine. This is the start to turning the rice unto a creamy, lovely bowl of risotto. Stir until evaporated over low heat. Add one ladle of warm chicken broth to the rice and stir until liquid is evaporated. Continue with remaining broth. This takes around 20 minutes. Last add some salt, pepper, butter and cheese. Top with the roasted tomatoes and basil to serve.
*customize with sautéed shrimp and zucchini, wild mushrooms and thyme, butternut squash with sage, or make it vegan but using vegetable stock, taking out the cheese and replacing the butter with olive oil
and ENJOY!
ps-that cookbook has an amazing pancake recipe and is full of gorgeous pictures. It’s also the prettiest color of making it the perfect kitchen counter book you won’t want to put away.
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MMMM! I love risotto! I’ll have to try that recipe out soon!
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Looks divine!!! Those tomatoes look SO yummy, too!! Way to go Hughes- can I make a reservation?
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Clary, this is too sweet. How fun to cook together as a family. And I think smile lines are beautiful. ps. I adore your kitchen.
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Ooohhhh that looks SO yummy! And I always love a peek at your kitchen. If I could redecorate ours, it’d look strikingly similar to this!
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Oh my! As a mom, as a foodie, as a great photo lover: THIS IS AMAZING! Your son is AWESOME! (must get it from his awesome mommy!)
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I love your sweet, personal posts.
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I couldn’t wait to get home from work to see this on a big screen instead of my tiny iphone screen! Wow Hughes- is he in college yet or what? Growing like a weed! Love it! Thanks for your sweet comment on my blog too, always means a lot
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sorry i have not commented in a very long time, but the pics are great, i know hughes loves to cook with you.
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love it
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This is so precious…makes my heart happy to see kiddos cooking! Now I want to get right into my kitchen with my little ones and have someone take fabulous pictures of it!!!
P.S. The chevron patterns are TO DIE FOR…why does everything in your life look absolutely fabulous?! I must learn your ways!!!! Even your tomatoes are different colors and fab…are they the tasty ones from Trader Joe’s? We love those! -
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And P.S….we are big lemon risotto fans…with a few green veggies thrown in, some lemon peel and lots of juice…yum!
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What a cute blog post filled with great photos and I just love your kitchen!
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Clary, You know that any time I can go to your site and see a picture of one or both of my grandkids, I am happy!! These pictures are great, too good – it makes me realize how fast Hughes is growing up!!! Food looks great also. I might have to look for that book, I am always in need of good pancakes recipes.
A one day adventure photography workshop. It’s simple, let me know how you would like to spend 1 day* at my studio (exploring film, talking about running a business, how to get published, etc) , with 1 sentence in the comments, and I’ll select 1 winner on Friday morning.
* rules and regulations
-Open to anyone with a camera. Film or digital.
-This workshop will take place at my studio, in the middle of nowhere Illinois. All travel fees are the resposibilty of winner.
-Workshop must take place in the month of March or April 2012 during the weekday.
-Coffee and lunch will be provided.
Thank you for all of the entries with poems, and sweet words. You all made it a difficult to select a winner .***christine*** you are the winner of the one day adventure, I can’t wait to spend it with you!
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So intrigued!
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I love an adventure! Are other photogs welcome?
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Your style is so very different from mine, I’d like to spend some time understand more about HOW you see… and a little film never hurt =0)
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I am walking, I am skipping, I am running, I want to learn how to take flight!
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I adore your style Clary, I would love to pick your brain about film and get your expertise….over wine
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I would like to learn how-to better manage my business while balancing life with family + friends and how-to creatively pose group photos for wedding parties and families.
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I have been inspired by your work for quite some time & I’m in awe that you shoot film…would love to visit & pick your brain!
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I would like to learn how to take detail shots at my client’s wedding so I can post a teaser before I get professional pictures back. I would also like to know hot to do a decent portrait of someone to capture my family better since I see them once a year. In addition, I would like to learn about your business and how you do things. You are a fascinating specimen. Ha ha ha…I will throw this out there as well, I would love to do this the last week of April and I will also go as far as stealing some of my mom’s pastry stash and bring it over from the other side of the planet. Do I sound motivated enough?
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Adventure is out there! I would love to spend a monday-funday talking and shooting film with you, Clary! I’ve quickly discovered it is my passion and that nothing thrills me more than the freedom and lightness of being that comes with shooting it and the beauty and color and romance with which film captures the moments I hold so dear. There are so many things I want to learn- it would be so wonderful to have your help on the journey
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I clearly need to read directions- one sentence then, here it is:: Film is how I show my love of life with the world and I would love your help developing it.
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Because you are awesome.
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i’d like to spend the day playing outside with coffee & all of our cameras.
you are a true artist and i have admired you from your very start. (also, i’m a country girl at heart and the middle of nowhere usually feels like home to me.)
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My life is totally different than it was just 4 short months ago; I’d love to ask, listen, catch up, and soak it all in… I have big plans and I could use some coffee in the middle of nowhere.
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roses are red, violets are blue. clary is rad, you know that’s true.
CROSSING MY FINGERS!
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I can think of not a better thing/ to watch someone so inspiring/help someone new know where to start/with this beautiful passion we share called photographic art.
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How fun!!!
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GAH! Pricing, publishing, balancing act of mommyhood and business, carving out your niche and staying in demand.
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“You can’t photograph if you’re not in love.”
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Because I can tell we both love pastels, I’m in love with middle of nowhere Illinois, because I own a film camera that doesn’t get used enough… because it would be a BLAST!
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I have been so intrigued by film for my personal use, but I don’t even know where to start. Spending a day with you would be a dream come true (a little rhyme there at the end)
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I am dying to know how you juggle the demands of running your own business (making it so very YOU, staying busy but not TOO busy, staying relevant by being out there, blogging, etc.), being an awesome mom (who does fun things, cooks great food, etc.) and being a great wife (who takes time away with her hubs, etc.) – I am dying to learn the secrets of SuperClary! (Longest sentence ever lol; I’m a writer so I can do that.)
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I’d love to hear your perspective on staying focused and passionate about creating images and running a business (and raising little humans in the meadows of the midwest) without being distracted by the latest hype.
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Although I hesitate to admit it, I’ve actually daydreamed of a day like this with you.
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Me+u=a great learning experience from which I would love to learn about the business side of photography (snore… but I do have ???s) and the creative side (Yeah!!) from which I’m really looking forward to hearing your perspective and how you stay creative & energized and not..sigh…bored
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While I’d love to even just meet you, I think I’d really enjoy discussing how you run your business as a Christian woman and a bit about how you work with your husband as a second shooter – that must not come cheap, ha!
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If I had a day with you, Clary: I’d bring my new Contax 645 and pick your brain about all there is to know with medium format film- (I want to learn more about it so badly because the results are so worth it!) we would talk about our love of art/design, and we would probably chuckle together over the fact that I’m your blog-stalker and attended the St. Louis shot party solely for the fact to have a couple minutes to learn from you!!
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A hopeful haiku:
rays of spring time light
scene framed with a lovely glow
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I would love to earn about film and how to get published. I’ve admired your work for a while now and it would be great to meet you and hang out for a while!
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I would be giddy to trek down from Wisconsin to soak in your wisdom of doing family + business well and your courage of rocking film in this digital age. (:
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First, I just want to say that I totally love when you do these contests!! You are definitely an inspiration to a lot of photographers and I love that even though you are extremely successful, you are humble.
I would love to spend that day in your home office soaking up the golden light and chatting about photography while drinking coffee
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I LOVE your work, and have been following you for years now; I’m a fellow FINDer (just got back from the workshop!!!) and would love to see how you have implemented everything you learned about film from Jon’s workshop, and how you make such amazing photographs! I would LOVE to meet you
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of course i’m bummed, but congrats, christine! i’m sure you two will have a blast! (:
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What!! I am SO bummed I missed this. Can I just pay and have a CP workshop? Love love your work.
Oh these are FABULOUS!!! Love their fashion sense and that dewy grass and that LIGHT!
AHMAZING, Clary!
LOVE the light!
I’m shaking my fists at the sky as to why I can’t be as good as you Clary Pfeiffer! You constantly impress me and make me smile!
Such a sweet session. The colors make my heart so happy!
Absolutely gorgeous! The light is absolutely amazing.
This is probably the most beautiful session I have ever seen in my whole life.
gorgeous!! makes me even MORE excited for our session in a few weeks!
So lovely, still, and sweet. Beautiful job!
Wow!!! Brandon and I are so thrilled by how they turned out! Now the hard part is which ones to pick!!!!! Can’t wait to see the entire shoot.
gooooorgeous colors!!
i have a confession- i think i got a sneak peak last night when you were working on this post. i happened to click on your blog and saw all these lovely colors and then went to check back a moment later and the post was gone
only one word needed for that brief glimpse though- glorious. glorious sun, glorious love, glorious moments captured. beautiful, clary!
I tried to post a blank comment to let you know I was speechless, but it didn’t work.
AMAZINGNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously breathtaking photos. You are the boss (or so boss, whatever the phrase is!)
Clary, I’m sorry, I haven’t been out here in so long, I had to see what you were up to. I am guessing that these were maybe at the property. They are so beautiful!!! They are all great, but my favorite is the one with the fog coming off of the lake with the couple standing by it – very nice! You do amazing things with a camera!!!!