Barbara's Reviews
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Plenty
By Yotam Ottolenghi, Jonathan Lovekin
Ebury Press - 2010
Winter couscous : page 262
This couscous was excellent. It reminded me a bit of the Moroccan Roasted Vegetables from one of my Moosewood cookbooks, but the flavouring was more subtle.
I really liked the addition of butter to the cooked couscous.
I bought parsley root instead of parsnip (they look very much the same) and really enjoyed the flavour.
Definitely will make this again.
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Very full tart : page 84
This is essentially a quiche made with roasted vegetables, ricotta, and feta. It was delicious. Roasting the vegies is a bit of extra palaver but well worth it. As usual with this type of recipe, I used evaporated milk instead of cream to try to keep the fat down.
Although I blind baked the tart shell, it had a few holes and I was using a tart pan with a removable bottom, so some of the liquid leaked out, but it was still great.
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Shakshuka : page 87
The focus of this shakshuka (apart from the eggs) is peppers. I made about a third of a recipe, using green, yellow, and red peppers, adding a bit of garlic and using less oil and no saffron.
It was very good, but because it calls for a bit of muscovado sugar, and the onion partially caramelizes before you even add the sugar, I found it too sweet, at least to go with eggs.
Ottolenghi uses a lot of oil for this (and other) recipes. Even reduced by half, it could have used less.
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Multi-Vegetable Paella : page 80
A vegetarian take on paella. The recipe says it generously serves 2, but this is an understatement, at least for women. It easily serves 3.
And very good it was. I didn't have broad beans or artichokes in oil, so I substituted frozen peas and fried eggplant, and used cilantro instead of parsely to garnish.
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