tamsin's Reviews
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Charmaine Solomon's Thai Cookbook
By Charmaine Solomon
Penguin Books Ltd - 1997
Make these tasty fish cakes a bit smaller than the recipe suggests and you'll get enough for easy starters for a small group. I add finely chopped lime leaves and shallots for extra "zing".
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The Crepe and Pancake Cook Book
By Cecilia Norman
Hutchinson - 1984
Amongst 24 different batter recipes, this book contains the ultimate combination for perfect french crepes, My partner argues that the American batter recipe is better, but he has heathen pancake tastes. In addition to pancakes, this book covers other international combinations of beaten eggs, flour and mild - from crumpets to tortillas, via pizza, waffles and flatbreads.
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Eastern Vegetarian Cooking
By Madhur Jaffrey
- 2000
Not mis-named! These chick peas are very, very more-ish. Really well worth going to the trouble of using the whole range of fresh spices, and roasting the seeds oneself - makes for an amazing fragrance in the kitchen. Oh, to live in Sydney still, where I could drop in to Herbie's Spices and indulge myself .....
Does anyone know of a good source of spices on the West Coast of Canada?
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Fondue cookery
By Alison Burt
Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited - 1971
Not quite right to categorise fondue as a "French" dish, but this will have to do. Apologies to the purists! For a recent birthday party I wanted us to be able to play with our food. We made two fondues, one of which used this traditional neufchatel recipe. We dunked fresh vegetables - carrots, zucchini, broccoli and mushrooms, which are particularly good - cooked baby potatoes, cabanossi and French bread. This was the perfect dish to share with friends on a dark, gloomy, wet evening on the West Coast.
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This fondue ran a close second to the neufchatel recipe I tried recently. This recipe omits alchohol, using milk instead of wine. Adding mustard lends a nice bite, and dunking chunks of Granny Smith apples is quite delicious.
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A gondola on the Murray
By Stefano de Pieri
ABC Books - 1999
Because this recipe uses the entire orange (cooked to soften for an hour in boiling water), it is not overly sweet and is always moist. Simple ingredients and preparation produce a very unexpectedly delicious cake. Try it warm with double cream or ice-cream, or just gobble it by the slice!
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The Josceline Dimbleby Christmas Book
By Josceline Dimbleby
Martin Books - 1987
Covering the ham in black treacle and wrapping it in pastry before baking, as this recipe suggests, produces an utterly delicious and moist ham once the casing is cracked open. I tend to add a good amount of star anise to the spice mixture as well - it is very easy to press into cracks in the flesh.
Every recipe I have tried from this book is excellent!
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Party Food (Australian Gourmet Traveller)
By Susan Tomnay
Australian Gourmet Traveller - 2003
This dish is worth all the salt required by the recipe. Note that it does require an awful lot of salt! However, the fish emerges beautifully moist from the salt crust and the "sea" of herbed orzo is an ideal accompaniment - slippery and tangy.
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An excellent "brownie-like" rich, moist chocolate cake, using ground almonds and buttermilk and lots of eggs. Simply cut into squares and serve with raspberries or blueberries. A good cake for making in advance as it will keep in an airtight container for up to four days.
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Pretty yummy - scones with a nice twist. But, to be honest, why not just eat the cheese with good Lavosh crackers? Save the effort for some other dish unless you are really out to impress.
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Pasta Italian Style (Sainsbury Cookbook Series)
By Patricia Lousada
Martin Books - 1988
Of the very many dishes in this handy book that I cook on a regular basis, the supper dish I cook most often when I cannot think about doing anythiing complicated - and there's nothing in the fridge - is this one. We almost always have the ingredients for this. It's not sophisticated - and probably not eco-friendly, whatever style of tuna you use - but it is super easy and super tasty.
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