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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Accidental Vegetarian

By Simon Rimmer
Cassell Illustrated - 2006

Great flavours; I'd have liked a bit more sauce though it's clear from the intro that the sauce is supposed to be concentrated, so there won't be much.

As with the other recipe I've used from this book, there does seem to be an omission for the instructions; in this case it's not clear whether the pasta should be pre-cooked or not. I cooked mine based on the fact that the assembled dish would only get 15 minutes baking in not a lot of liquid.

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This tasted fine but based on the author's comment that the peppers and fennel need to be soft, I think a stage has gone missing from the instructions. My fennel was distinctly crunchy after its 2-minute blanching - definitely needed either longer blanching or some time in the oven before the final addition of the cheese.

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