Frisee Salad and Winter Risotto

Wine: Tablas Creek 2002 Cote de Tablas from Silverlake Wine(a throw back to the wines of provence we love so much!)

We had noticed at the Hollywood Farmers Market that they had frisee lettuce. This would allow us to make a Frisee Lardon Salad, one of our favorites. Cathy decided to use the "Sort-of Frisee Lardon" recipe from Nancy Silverton's Sandwich Book. This is an interesting take and a makes a great salad. A not quite hardboiled egg is torn up into the salad and radicchio used. The dressing is a great mustard vinegrette. We get the mustard at the Cheese Store of Silverlake. They sell it in bulk and it is very strong and good!

For the main course we had a recipe from Suzanne Goin's new cookbook: Sunday Suppers at Lucques. It is the second recipe from the book. We decided to make "Winter Squash Risotto with Radicchio and Parmesan". This was we got to use up all of the radicchio left over from the salad! We found the recipe detailed and fairly complex but it is delicious and worth the work! We are going to definately make it again.