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 Moosewood Restaurant Cooking for Health: More Than 200 New Vegetarian and Vegan Recipes for Delicious and Nutrient-Rich Dishes

By Moosewood Collective
Simon & Schuster - 2009

Pleased with the result of this as I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I reduced the quantities to make two small ones rather than one large, and as a result had to use the rice, walnut and olive mixture as a base only (cheesecake style) rather than a full crust. I substituted broccoli for asparagus as suggested and used slightly less Feta but the result still had plenty of flavour. The crust came out mauve due to the Kalamata olives - next time I may try the sundried tomato alternative in the crust and add a few olives to the filling; I shall also cut the leek into shorter strands.

I would define this as a quiche or flan, rather than a pie, due to the custard-based filling and absence of top crust. I took the second one to work for lunch and it travelled well and was good at room temperature.

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