kaye16's Reviews
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Very nice and quite easy to do. Might be nice with scallops also. Served two nicely as a main.
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This wasn't on today's plan, but it really felt like mac'n'cheese today—fall is a-comin'.
- I thought there was a trifle too much worcestershire sauce. It tends to overpower.
- I probably used only 2 cups of milk, although I heated 3 cups. It seemed like too much, and I think it would have been.
- A bunch of broccoli is pretty vague. Judging by the picture I used more. (I think I had 4 cups of florets.)
- I used only 7oz of pasta, but two of us did a pretty good job on it. There will be a small serving each for lunch in the next days.
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Tasty, easy soup. Well, easy if you don't mind peeling and slicing 1.5# of carrots. I did the first part and my cuisinart did the hard bit, as well as chopping the onions.
Not really a weeknight thing, but could be made ahead and reheated.
The strips of orange zest weren't immediately visible when it came time to purée and I forgot to remove them. This was OK really.
We liked.
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An excellent dinner salad, very much liked here.
The recipes says it serves four; we thought those would be very skimpy servings.
I used two smallish kip filets (boneless, skinless chicken breast halves), totalling 250g for the two of us, rather than two enormous ones making a pound (454g).
Used pretty much all of everything, with half the vinaigrette. (Don't like swimming salads.)
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An instant do-me-again favorite.
Spicy, but not challenging.
Kind of like a spicy brownie.
I used 185g 70% chocolate and 100g 85% chocolate.
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Pretty darn tasty.
- I was short of meat, about 550g pork, rather than 1-1/2#, but used most of spices
- lardons fumées would be great ipv bacon
- one egg plus one white (from the freezer).
- Used two cups of seedless tomato sauce/purée from the freezer.
There were 19 meatballs that fit quite nicely into my mini-muffin pan, as suggested, when there should have been maybe 12. My plums must be smaller than theirs.
Definitely wanted a bit of the adobo sauce to balance the sweet of the tomatoes.
Served with polenta.
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A super chocolate cake, fluffy and tender and not at all dry. A bit unusual in that it cooks at a very low temperature (275F) for a long time.
- My 2-qt bundt pan, although not as fancy as the one shown, worked fine. (The recipe can't decide if a 2-qt or a 2-1/2-qt one is needed.)
- I used a proper double boiler rather than the improvised one suggested.
- I used Kahlua instead of brandy.
- The cake was not done in the 1h15 advised; I probably did another 20min altogether.
Really nice.
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Wow, that was easy. I followed these instructions to "hard-boil" 6 eggs. They were perfect. Easy to peel and no gray on the yolk. I used large eggs, steamed them 15min as instructed.
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Wonder why I need yet another roast chicken recipe? This was a good one. Chicken sitting on onion halves, nice idea. Lemon halves squeezed over and then stuffed inside. Surrounded by potatoes tossed with olive oil and herbs. Turned out good, but no surprise.
My chicken was quite a bit smaller than the 5.5# one prescribed. I cooked the same time and it was done. Inside of thighs just barely done.
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We thought this was excellent for what you can make with canned tuna.
- I used water-packed tuna, rather than oil-packed, which frequently has an off-taste to me.
- Added no extra salt. The canned tuna and capers have quite enough.
Quick and tasty.
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Yum! Easy, tasty, fast, can hardly beat that. I served with rice, but it might have been nice with spaghetti. Definitely a do again.
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