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From: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Joined: December 14th, 2010

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Latest review:

October 12th, 2019

Curried Carrot-Walnut Burgers from Vegetarian Planet

These are good vegetarian burgers with chickpeas, carrots, and mushrooms as the base. The burgers were easy to form and held together well during the cooking. They are quite soft in the eating, so benefit... read more >


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Jerusalem

By Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi
Ebury Press - 2012

March 27th, 2016

I love the flavours that ottolenghi conjures with, but I find the cooking instructions often sloppy and not to be trusted. Oven temperatures or timings can be way off (perhaps they are tested in a professional kitchen that yields different results), steps missing, or in the wrong sequence. Almost every recipe I've tried needs some kind of tweaking, and careful reading.

That being said, his cookbooks are often the first ones I reach for when looking for inspiration for a dinner party. And Jersulaem is probably the one I most frequently turn to.