Recipe for Awesome

An incredible way to spend 40 minutes of your evening is making risotto. Allow me to explain how truly awesome that 40 minutes can be:

1. Begin cooking: chop onion, saute with butter, add risotto.
   
2. Pour wine (a small amount into the pan, a large amount into your glass).
   
3. Turn on radio, add chicken stock to pan.
   
4. Stir, sip.
   
5. Dance.
   
6. Stir, sip.
   
7. Add more chicken stock.
   
8. Stir, sip.
   
9. Dip it low.
   
10. Began singing along to songs where you don't know the lyrics, but make up your own that sound infinitely better anyway. Add more chicken stock.
    
11. Pour more wine (glass, not pan).
    
12. Rotate pelvis rapidly while stirring.
    
13. Taste risotto and be amazed at your skills.
    
14. Add more chicken stock, dance and sing to Michael Jackson's Bad while singing, "You know I'm bad! I'm bad! JAMAL!"
    
15. Stir, sip. You might need a refill at this point. Trust me, it helps with the cooking (and dancing).
    
16. Add more chicken stock.
    
17. Stir, sip, seriously consider auditioning for American Idol.
    
18. Finish risotto with an egg yolk, a squeeze of lemon, Parmesan, pepper, and a dash of half 'n half.
    
19. Gobble up amazing dinner (also good with steamed asparagus, or shrimps, or mushrooms) and marvel at your remarkable cooking and dancing skills. Repeat between bites: "I am phenomenal."