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Puree LeontineFrom: A Book of Mediterranean Food (reviewed 10th July 2013) |
From: Northern England,
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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).
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Puree LeontineFrom: A Book of Mediterranean Food (reviewed 10th July 2013)Nice fresh flavour though it would have been better if I'd been able to use the outer leaves of a fully grown Cos lettuce - local shops only had dainty little "hearts of romaine". Does not puree well in a food processor, probably because most of the veg is in slippery julienne form; if I'd wanted a smooth puree I'd have had to follow the original instruction to rub the soup through a sieve. |
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