Peckish Sister's Profile

From: Central, FL USA

Joined: December 11th, 2010

About me: I have always liked to cook, particularly breads, fruits, vegetables, vegetarian, poultry and lamb dishes. After marriage we cooked together progressively more difficult dishes with him doing the meat, grilling and frying, and I did the "dough" and the same type of things I had before. After children we started cooking more simply. After discovering the cause of my frequent migraines was an evolving long list of chemicals and odd ingredients, I began getting back to cooking from basic ingredients, and found I could be well again. I also try to cooking from what I can get in season at the ever present fruit and vegetable stands.

Favorite cookbook: America's Test Kitchen / Cooks Illustrated Books


Latest review:

May 20th, 2020

Manchester Stew from Skinny Instant Pot & Slow Cooker Cookbook

I switched up the vegetables and canned beans to reflect what I had on hand. It was my very first use of the Insta pot and I was skeptical of the 3 minute cooking time since I had increased the amounts... read more >


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The Vegetarian Epicure, Book Two

By Anna Thomas
Knopf - 1978

10th April 2011

An Easy Herb Bread : page 35

A delicious 100% whole wheat flour recipe that rose to make 3 light textured loaves. I was interested that she changed her herb mix from the recipe in the first book (that I did not make). The smells coming from the dough (yes I actually made this recipe the right way and did not try to jam it into my bread machine) from first adding the sautéed onion garlic and herb mixture throughout the baking process were tantalizing. I only have two loaf pans and often use a medium sized sauce pan for bread, so used that for the third loaf and it turned out the most photogenic.

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5th April 2011

Fettucine Alfredo : page 245

This very rich sauce with cream, butter and parmesan cheese, cooked up just as the directions said, and richly coated the fettuccine noodles. We used just under the amount of Parmesan cheese called for, anymore would have been too salty, and were glad that we added no salt to either the sauce or the pasta water. The only off note was the parsley garnish, I should have tasted it; it was harsh and felt like thistle tips going down. It is the best Fettuccine Alfredo recipe we have cooked so far.

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10th April 2011

Four-Grain Muffins : page 52

These had just the right amount of sweetness from the honey. I had all of the ingredients on hand – milk, whole wheat and rye flours, cornmeal and rolled oats. The muffins turned out moist and very dense, a plain whole grain muffin.

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26th March 2011

Glazed Carrots : page 188

I had slender carrots and the recipe seemed to be going OK, except the glaze just did not seem to be thick enough to coat the carrots as directed. So I kept on cooking and eventually I had nicely coated carrots. The portion sizes seemed small and that was because the carrots had actually shrunk. They did not turn mushy, but were concentrated in flavor with a weird texture. I wonder if I added the brown sugar mixture too soon, I thought all of the water had evaporated. This would have tasted better if the carrots had not shriveled.

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9th April 2011 (edited: 10th April 2011)

Mushroom Stew : page 165

The onions and tomatoes would have dominated this stew if it were not for the whole mushrooms. The larger ones made it a little difficult to eat gracefully. I used 1 lb of button, and 1 /2 lb of baby Bella mushrooms. The chopped green olives added at the end gave some nice contrast both visually and to the taste. As noted, a good bread served with this is essential. I used the Greek sesame bread from the first Vegetarian Epicure book.

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