Salmon day again ALREADY?

Seriously? How can life be so very dull at the moment, but going so very fast as well?

Anyway, Monday cameth around once more. Which means another variant of salmon (per previous blogs). Only I spent all day in video interviews which was (a) intense and (b) gave me very little time to think about what on earth to do with the smoked salmon sitting in the fridge.

We'd had pasta for lunch. Ben doesn't like omelettes. Er...

The solution was obvious and overdue. Risotto, which I've somehow managed to breach Confined Kitchen rules by not making yet.

I had: quark, lemon juice, salmon, vegetable stock and - courtesy of a drop-off from my parents - a chervil plant hooray.

I did not have: leeks, or arborio rice.

Luckily I'd not yet had my outing for the day, and the weird grocery round the corner had massive leeks and a kind of rice called Idli which I'd never heard of but looked exactly like arborio (and was £2 for 1kg, result).

You know the drill with risotto. Leeks and garlic fried in butter, rice chucked in for a minute, stock, stir, salt and pepper, more stock etc etc etc.

Could-have-been-worse risotto

I had some frozen baby leaf spinach which I threw in for additional greenery. I had the end of a bottle of Cinzano Bianco (Christmas, of course) which I reasoned would probably work as well as white wine.

I had a bit of parmesan, which went in at the end with the chervil, lemon juice, quark and salmon.

It was a qualified success. Son No2 and I really liked it, Ben thought it was nice but maybe creme fraiche would have been better than quark. Son No1 ate most of it before taking agin a bitter taste which may have been the quark too.

So it's sort of a work-in-progress one. If I can be arsed to stir for 25 friffing minutes on the offchance again. Life's dull, but not *that* dull...