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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Eastern Vegetarian Cooking

By Madhur Jaffrey
Arrow - 1990

Tasted fine but the texture was not great - I'd hoped the pre-soaking of the rice would prevent it from bursting and going mushy, but no. Went well with spiced fried fish.

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This made a good meal out of one and a half eggs; the cauliflower and spices worked well though in future I might be tempted to compromise the vegetarian aspect by adding a couple of chopped anchovy fillets. I would probably also omit the bicarbonate of soda as I'm not convinced that it had any significant effect on the texture.

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