One of the few recipes that you can confidently prepare with no tweaking or changes necessary. It's creamy and delicious with a subtle Parmesan flavor. This would be an appropriate side dish for almost any meat or seafood. A definite "make again" recipe. Simply perfect.

This is a great recipe, however, it seems there is a typo in the ingredient list....it should read 1/4 tsp. pepper, NOT 1/4 C.

Wow, this is going in my recipe box! We tried it tonight, and it was awesome. I added some sauteed shrimp that I had, along with a handful of green peas for color and texture. DELISH. This took me under 30 minutes the first time I made it - pretty good for a weeknight! PLENTY of leftovers for lunch the next day. The sauce is basically an alfredo sauce. This is like "grown-up mac & cheese." It's that creamy and addictive! Add a nice glass of white wine if you like, a crisp green salad and a loaf of crusty bread with olive oil for dipping... MMMM, instant weeknight gourmet.

Very good. I added onion, and a bit of cheddar cheese since I didn't have enough Parmesan. Worked well. Easy, fun, and tasty. What else is there to ask for? Thanks.

I didn't happen to have milk the day I made this, so I used some sour cream. OH MY GOD! It was so creamy, my boyfriend thought it was rissotto.

This was an excellent side dish! The only change I will make the next time is to cut back on the butter. Thanks for a keeper!

This was almost restaurant quality. I made some changes to reduce the fat. Instead of using butter, I sprayed the pan with butter flavored spay and poured some liquid fat-free butter spray into the pan. The garlic sauteed just fine. The end result was great. It wasn't as creamy as I would have liked, but that was due to the butter substitutes. I don't mind giving up a little creaminess for getting rid of all that fat.

I'm only rating this one 4 stars because as it's written, the ratio of orzo to the other ingredients is a bit off. It was somewhat drier than I anticipated. However, this has definite potential to be a 5 star recipe, but you have to tweak it to get there! Either cut back on the amount of orzo by at least 1/2 a cup & follow the rest of the instructions.... OR, use the full 2 cups of orzo and you'll have to add more garlic, more butter, more Parmesan and more milk to reach the desired creaminess that you'd expect from this dish. Also, I read another review that suggested adding some spinach to this and I really like that idea. I will try that next time! Just do a little "tweaking" with this one and you will end up with a recipe worthy of all 5 stars!

Great side dish, followed directions but added 1 box thawed chopped spinach and a tad bit more milk and parm since the spinach absorbed what was called for. Family loved it. Next time I may make it an all in one meal by adding shrimp or bay scallops. Thanks for the recipe.

This is pretty good. I added more cheese because we like cheese but omitted the salt because I thought the cheese would be salty enough. Turns out I was wrong. It definately needs salt. I bet this would be great with chicken parm.