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Cooking & Baking

swimboy

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4. Sipping the wine is an earned reward for making risotto!

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #2)

Sun May 19, 2013, 03:33 PM

May 2013

People talk about how much trouble it is to make things from scratch but I also enjoy the focus of prepping everything prior to assembly and the satisfaction of combining disparate elements and transforming them into something altogether different. Time well spent!

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Do you have cooking/baking tasks that you particularly enjoy? [View all] swimboy May 2013 OP

I love the smell of dough, any dough, and using rolling pins. NYC_SKP May 2013 #1

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Sipping the wine is an earned reward for making risotto! swimboy May 2013 #4

That's one of the main reasons I love making risotto! bif May 2013 #7

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Oh yeah! swimboy May 2013 #9

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That reminds me swimboy May 2013 #10

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