Leeka's Reviews
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Skinny Bitch: Ultimate Everyday Cookbook: Crazy Delicious Recipes that Are Good to the Earth and Great for Your Bod
By Kim Barnouin
Running Press - 2010
Asian Macaroni and Cheese : page 224
Wow, I was not expecting to like this at all and I was very pleasantly surprised. I made this on the recommendation of someone in my cooking group and after reading the ingredients was somewhat skeptical but gave it a shot. I'm really glad I did.
This is a baked pasta dish with cheese nowhere in sight. The sauce is deliciously creamy and is made with coconut milk, blended cooked cauliflower, a bit of miso, garlic, nutmeg, mustard, salt and pepper. Added to the pasta and sauce is a bit more browned cauliflower and tofu. The flavours are mild but not boring. This is definitely comfort food, perfect for supper on a cool autumn or winter's night.
Note: I did not have potato starch for the sauce but substituted corn starch and it was fine. You could probably get away without this ingredient all together.
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Curried Chickpea Cakes : page 191
I wavered between 3 and 4 on the rating. They have a fairly mild flavour with ingredients I wouldn't normally think to add to this type of bean cake. Along with the chickpeas, coconut milk, nutmeg, cumin and curry powder are the main seasonings. Tasty but not outstanding.
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Peach Crisp : page 259
I'm a little on the fence about this crisp. It uses lemon zest in the topping along with oats, granola, cinnamon, nutmeg and brown rice syrup. I'm not sure I dig the combination of lemon zest and peaches. It tastes a bit funky to me but I'm eating my second bowl as I write this so I guess it's tasty enough.
Also, I like less topping and more peaches/fruit but I find myself thinking this every time I make a crisp so a note for myself next time - make less topping!
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