Risotto with Vegetables & Meat

"Risotto with vegetables and meat is a damn good, 45-min, one-pan meal. You might know I’m not crazy about rice. I’m thinking it must be from the years in war when we had a very limited diet, limited as in whatever came via humanitarian aid, and a lot of rice came. However one created the menu, rice showed up on the list at least five to six days a week. Rice. Rice with canned mackerel that smelled like a gas station toilet. Rice pie. Rice with canned ground beef street dogs wouldn’t eat. Rice in sauce of nothing. Macaroni. Rice. Rice again. For years after the siege I couldn’t stand to even look at it."