Our Balls Are Better Than Little Dom's!

Tonight, our first night, Ryan won't shut up about Little Dom's, a restaurant in Los Feliz,(http://www.littledoms.com/) which is a sequel of the original Dominic's in West Hollywood. Both restaurants are famous for their Rice Balls or "Arancini" as Jac prefers to say... "Rice Balls" just sounds ridiculous. Having tasted the West Hollywood version of this dish and because Jac refused to travel a half hour from her cozy apartment in Beverly Hills, she promised that we could replicate the carbohydrate ball from the comfort of her kitchen...

One other thing about us, Jac has mad skills, she is organized and a leader in the kitchen...Ryan has little more to offer than the attention equivalent of minimum wage kitchen staff worker...so here's how it went:

As Ryan slept off Saturday night, Jac prepped the ingredients and created the base risotto. Ryan arrived around 5:30pm with some emergency groceries (eggs and oil) and immediately began to roll the risotto mixture around cubed fontina cheese into ping pong sized balls which we then covered with bread crumbs. After the balls were all prepped, we busted out Jac's new Waring Pro Deep Fryer (http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/sku5787650/index.cfm?pkey=xsrd0m1%7C16%7C%7C%7C0%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7Cwaring%20pro%20deep%20fryer&cm%5Fsrc=SCH) and let those little balls fry. We also added some tomato sauce to the carb fest...Justin took some great pictures which are included below.

Tonight's menu:

Arancini ala Dominic's

Swordfish with a Balsamic Brown Butter: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Swordfish-with-Balsamic-Brown-Butter-Sauce-103889

Brocolini

**featuring speciality cocktails by Justin - Mojitos

Ryan's Review: "These balls were good but not quite the same as Dom's, the tomato sauce made them extra special. Two balls weren't enough."

Jac's Review: "very similar, very good, very heart attack"

Ready to eat!