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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Taste of Nepal (Hippocrene Cookbook Library)

By Jyoti Pathak
Hippocrene Books - 2007

I've given this 4 stars even though I had a few problems with it, because I like the basic dish a lot and the problems are easily solved.

Firstly, I didn't like the red pepper in combination with the other flavours, and would leave that out in future. Secondly, I'm all in favour of including cauliflower leaves but the recipe says to add and fry them at the same time as the florets, and the thin edges burned very quickly. In future I'd add them later. Thirdly, the vegetables didn't produce much in the way of juices so I found I had to add a splash of water every now and then as cooking progressed.

There are a lot of spices in this dish, and I found it best to assemble and measure them out beforehand rather than as I went along.

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A perfectly pleasant dal to accompany a vegetable-based main course, but nothing out of the ordinary, hence the 3 stars.

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