Receta Jook...

Jook is also known as Congee, or rice porridge, but at The Slaughterhouse, it's known as Chinese Risotto.   Risotto is a slow cooked, creamy rice, it's definitely Italian comfort food...and Jook is made the same way, making it Asian comfort food...to the umptht degree! If you've ever had congee, then you're probably rolling your eyes and thinking I'm crazy...but when I tell you this recipe comes via Mark Bittman (author of more than 20 cookbooks, food writer for the New York Times, among others) then you have to know this recipe for Jook is not your ordinary bland rice porridge that all of Asia eats, morning, noon and night.  Let me spell it out for you, it's as opposite from bland as you can get.  Thanks to ginger, this bowl…