Risotto au safran, oeufs en cassolette, salade de fruits citronnée

As frequently happens when I watch cooking shows, I've fallen in like. This lady (She's a Prioress) is everything that a nun preparing a Lenten repast should be: Chaste, cheerful, informative, pleasant, instructive. She does her Christian duty, expertly, and tells you about it. So this is Lent; it needn't be a bummer. In fact, it might be better for us if our whole life were one long Lent. I got the message. There's something desperately funny, to me, about Mme. la Prieure's personal reflection, that, making risotto, with the care and attentiveness that making risotto (especially saffron risotto) requires, is an activity particularly suited to the meditative, deliberate restraint of Lent: Keep your fire low, and keep stirring...I sense that this is a truism commonly held to by prioresses who are also first-rate cooks.