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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The Complete Asian Cookbook

By Charmaine Solomon
Tuttle Publishing - 1992

Simple but good. I didn't have the blachan so substituted a dash of Thai fish sauce.

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Great flavour, but not for the first time it raised the question of what other people mean by "very thinly sliced liver". My idea of very thinly sliced liver cooks in 60 seconds or less, rather than the 8 or 9 minutes indicated in this recipe. As this is a braised dish, I decided to stick to the cooking times given and slice the liver quite thickly - about half an inch thick - but even at that I felt it ended up a bit over-done. Next time I shall slice it thinly and stir-fry it.

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