<p>I’ve tried and tried to like this dish and have ordered it at different fancy Italian restaurants thinking each time maybe the cook had an off-night or something. But it’s always the same. A nice sauce ruined by hard or barely cooked rice. It’s like eating the partially-popped popcorn at the bottom of the bag. Now I like my pasta firm or al dente, but I just can’t carry over liking rice the same way. Does anyone ever fully cook arborio rice because I think you might actually have something worth eating if you did.</p>
<p>YES, garland, my thoughts exactly! Couldn’t help remarking that it has (and lacks) all the proper things for a summer blockbuster movie, too…</p>
<p>I would have to agree with everything on this page so far – and grin at fredo, because I know I infuriated my mom by behaving similarly. It’s amazing the kind of tunnel vision you can have!</p>
<p>I don’t get low voter turn out that turns into outrage at policies enacted that were directly relevant. Case in point, a friend of mine who rails against Bush at every opportunity (sometimes making some pretty stretched parallels – he’s obsessed), but is fundamentally against the act of voting (?!).</p>
<p>I also don’t get why messages from “CredibleSource” with the subject line “Re: Sexual Awakening” is supposed to get me to purchase Viagra (especially since I’m female). Am I supposed to read the “from” line, go “Oh, well at least I know it’s not spam!” and assume that the “re:” is really a reply/regarding tag to something I don’t remember sending out to someone about something I would never own, but should buy anyway?</p>
<p>Oh I like risotto-
I think you just haven’t had it made right
I make it myself- from the recipe on the Lundbergs arborio rice package
be sure and use good wine and parmigiano-reggiano fresh grated cheese, sometimes I put in some pancetta but you don’t need it.</p>
<p>I also admit to having purchased beanie babies-
we used them as a bribe to get my youngest daughter motivated to change schools when she was 7. It was really hard for her- and so I would go to macdonalds just to buy a beanie baby( sometimes we would throw away the “food”)
The funny thing is- she hated tags of all sorts- if she was trying something on in a store she would rip the price tags off- if they were clothes we had purchased she would cut the inside tags off. She has several beanie babies that obstensibly would be very sought after- if they had only had the tags!</p>
<p>emeraldkity - your post about cutting off the labels brought back some memories. I’m sure you remember when Levi’s were all the rage & if you didn’t own them you just weren’t with it? When I got my first job I went out and bought several pairs of them. I come home from school one day & my mother had washed them. That wasn’t the problem. The PROBLEM? She cut off the Levi label on the pocket! I could have died. Funny now - not funny then:)</p>
<p>Extreme Republicans or Christians. But since those two characteristics are extremely dear to the hearts of the folks who share them I never say anything in public. Please don’t flame me, I just don’t get it, I’m not flaming or shaming the believers.</p>
<p>-I do get football … I go through withdrawals in the spring and summer. GOOOOO TITANS!</p>
<p>-I don’t get golf, but so many people I know do, so I’ve signed up to start taking lessons next week. Maybe I’ll get it then.</p>
<p>-I don’t get why people send their children to school sick, though I would guess it’s because they need a babysitter while they go to work, or maybe they just want to ensure their child gets the ever-coveted perfect attendance award.</p>
<p>-I don’t get why people talk during a movie … specifically my sister who inevitably will ask “Why do you think he did that?” or “OMG, what’s going to happen now?” I’ve given her the same answer all my life … “I don’t know … I’m seeing the movie for the first time, too.”</p>
<p>-I don’t get why some people do not use their turn signals!!!</p>
<p>-I, too, don’t get why professional athletes, actors and other people who don’t have a direct influence on our lives make so much $$ while teachers and child care workers make so little.</p>
<p>this is a great thread…I think Paris Hilton went to Beverly HIlls High and nothing more than that. She’s a perfect example of what happens to a kid with $$ when the parents don’t teach the responsibility of having $$…Maybe they never learned themselves. Scary.</p>
<p>SplashMom, regarding turn signals…sometimes I use them, sometimes I don’t. The “don’t” is generally for very safe lane changes or lane changes that need to be done quickly…there’s no point in putting on your signal unless you give the drivers behind you a couple of seconds to take notice and in LA traffic you sometimes don’t have those couple of seconds to spare. Depends on traffic and situation. What people don’t get is that using your signal lets people in front of you as well as in back of you know what you intend to do…this is helpful sometimes and I !@#$%^&*! when oncoming cars signal at the last moment.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t dream of watching Reality TV. Once, while changing VHS tapes of a series we were watching, saw a couple of minutes of “Trading Wives” or whatever it was called while the first tape re-wound, etc. Looked with morbid fascination, feeling my I.Q. drop with every second, and felt like I needed to take a shower to get rid of the unclean feeling.
If aliens had landed I would have said, “I’m not with them…really!”</p>
<p>Risotto!!! Yes!!! That’s another one I don’t get. Recently, I had Lobster Risotto at a very trendy and popular L.A. restaurant, so I think they must have made it right. It was…well…gross! The lobster was good, but too bad it was wasted in that gooky rice mush…with a horrible flavor. Never again.</p>
<p>I love calamari- ( but like risotto- it has to be made right and unfortunately a popular and expensive restaurant does not guarentee- we jsut had a very nice dinner at one of seattles reknowned waterfront restaurants but the risotto was blah)
I also like Star trek although not so much the high camp of original series but Lt Worf rowrrrrrrr but you gotta love a guy who has as much sense of humor about himself as William Shatner.
I never got friends let alone Jennifer Aniston although my 15 year old was a big fan-</p>
<p>Standing/sitting on line hours or days on end to be at the midnight seating of a movie.</p>
<p>I definitley don’t get Paris Hilton</p>
<p>i don’t get low rise pants -I have yet to see a person that I can say actually looks good in low rise pants (D says I am being way to hard on people). Can’t wait for this “fad” to leave.</p>
<p>Cheesecake Factory. Lousy food, long waits, and overpriced.</p>
<p>(By the way: fully cooking risotto takes a while. Most restaurants probably don’t want to use the manpower to do it right, which involves standing over a pot, stirring constantly, for at least a half-hour.)</p>