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From: Northern England,

Joined: October 7th, 2012

About me: I've embarked on a mission to cook something new from every cookery book I own - currently 260 - and am planning to use my account here to keep track (thanks to rfb from Librarything for tipping me off to the existence of this site). I've made a couple of rules for myself: to cook the recipe as given, with no substitution or variation unless suggested by the author; and to try to pick a genuinely new dish from each book - in other words, as I've cooked many Leek and Potato Soups in my time, I don't get to count Leek and Potato Soup as a new dish just because I haven't used this specific recipe before (unless it has really significant differences from the usual versions).


Latest review:

June 10th, 2019

Hodge Podge from Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book

Beef and vegetable soup with beer - turned out disappointingly bland. The recipe had no seasoning other than salt and pepper - having tried it, I added a stock cube and some Worcester sauce, which helped... read more >


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50 Great Curries of India

By Camellia Panjabi, Peter Knab
Kyle Cathie - 2004

10th August 2014

Lamb with Spinach : page 84

Delicious though it did take a while to cook, especially the stage where the lamb was absorbing the yoghurt. However once that was done it was pretty quick to finish.

I looked up the recipe on line (to check the ingredients, having failed to take my shopping list to work) and was interested to note that more than one person had found it not "spicy" enough. Having cooked it myself I can only conclude that when they said "spice" they meant chilli, since I found the spicing excellent with just enough heat and the cardamom distinct but not overwhelming. This is a Northern Indian dish so not going to be heavy on the chilli.

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Unfortunately I had to make this without the fenugreek leaves, since my local supermarket didn't have any for once. However even without the fenugreek it's a good dish - quick to cook and with a lovely fresh flavour.

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