Sovay's Profile

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).

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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The Food and Cooking of Eastern Europe (At Table)

By Lesley Chamberlain
Bison Books - 2006

I have about 5 recipes for this in different books - the cauliflower seems to be common to all of them though the other ingredients vary. I chose this one because it doesn't include asparagus (which I could have got, but it's way out of season so I preferred not to).

I've tagged this as a side dish since that's the section it appears in in the book, but I reckon it would work just as well as a main course if one added both the suggested garnishes (prawns and bread dumplings). I went for prawns only this time, not least because there is no recipe for the bread dumplings in this book, but I've since found one in another book and will be giving them a try.

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A nice light dish for summer - the ratatouille is not the classic one as it has leeks and cucumbers instead of aubergines and courgettes.

I've taken off a star only because I'm not that keen on the texture of turkey - next time I'll probably use chicken instead.

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