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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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The Silver Spoon

By Phaidon Press
Phaidon Press - 2005

Supposedly the Italian bible of cooking, and it contains a huge number of recipes, but it's not for begging cooks. The layout is compact, pictures minimal (which doesn't bother me).

The instructions are written in one long paragraph, which is a pain to follow when you're half way through and need to check something.

Worse yet, instructions can be incomplete, unclear, and quantities imprecise. Even for someone who doesn't always follow instructions and quantities to the letter, this can be frustrating.