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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Nick Nairn's Top 100 Salmon Recipes

By Nick Nairn
BBC Books - 2007

My favourite recipe from this book so far - it has a lot of ingredients but but none of them are particularly exotic (unless you think sherry is exotic, which many people apparently do these days) and it's very straightforward to put together. I usually reduce the sugar a little, and often replace the carrot with either courgettes or broccoli stem, thinly sliced.

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This is more a polenta recipe than a salmon recipe, really - the salmon is just quickly fried and set on top of the polenta - but the two go well together and make a good meal in about 10 minutes.

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