A last-minute minute potluck dinner party, I’m hosting, and I find that I do not have the phyllo dough in the freezer that I thought I had. Nevermind, I decided to make a risotto instead. But the aborio box only has a cup of rice in it! A quick ingredient search on epicurious.com (squash, onions, kale) turned up

this recipe, classy enough for a dinner party but easy enough that I could still put it together and have it come out of the oven, hot a beautiful, by 8pm. And it tasted just as good as it looked. Instead of the Fontina I substituted some gargonzola I had languishing in the freezer – to great success and sharper flavor.