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 Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand and Vilna to the Present Day

By Claudia Roden
Penguin - 1999

A kind of oven baked frittata, good both hot (or rather warm) and cold, though I think warm has the edge as the consistency gets much more solid once it cools.

A tomato sauce would be good with this but it would need to be quite a delicate one - I tried it with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's roasted tomato sauce (simply because I had some in the fridge) but that was far too intense and overpowering.

The recipe says to pour the egg/cheese mixture over the courgettes but mine was way too thick - it had to be scraped out of the bowl and spread.

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I liked this overall but was in two minds about the raisins, and next time would probably chop or even puree them to distribute them evenly through the sauce and avoid the bursts of intense sweetness which I don't like.

Lemon juice would also be a good addition, to counteract both the sweetness of the raisins and the richness of the chicken juices and pine nuts.

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