"Add onion and cook gently until tender." All right. [Tosses a whole onion in, poking it with a spatula as it bobs across the pot. It's supposed to separate once it softens, is that not correct? He skims down to the next step on the recipe card.] "Add wine once the tomato has cooked down slightly and coat the rice."
[Whoops, forgot to add those tomatoes, just going to toss those in now. And why wait for the tomato to cook, might as well add the wine now too.
He stirred the pot slowly, the way Father Vincent Phantomhive had shown him when he was a child, and peered at the fire burning below. The recipe card stated that the fire should be lit on low, and that the risotto should be cooked "while infrequently but vigorously stirring" until brought to a thickened state. Infrequent but vigorous? So should he wait like. ten or twenty minutes before stirring once?