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).


Latest review:

June 10th, 2019

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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Classic Indian Cooking

By Julie Sahni
Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd - 1988

Great combination and I would have given it 5 stars save for two issues. One relates to my own preference - I didn't find the thin "minestrone soup" texture very appealing in a main course dish. The other concerns the vegetables themselves - the recipe states that they need to be cooked until soft but the pieces of potato are quite large, so by the time they were soft the cauliflower florets had moved beyond soft to mushy.

I shall cook this again but a) remove the cauliflower florets after the initial saute and replace them once the potato has had 5 or 10 minutes simmering and b) reduce the sauce to a thicker consistency at the end.

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