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From: Melbourne, VIC Australia

Joined: December 27th, 2009

About me: I've been cooking for over thirty years, and I can remember the days before EVO, couscous and (ghasp!) microwaves. My cookbook collection reflects this personal and national gastronomic history. My own cooking has actually got simpler over the years, and I can do much of my repertoire without looking at a recipe. But I still love collecting cookbooks, although these days I'm a bit over food porn with great big colour photos - I really prefer food writing to recipes.

Favorite cookbook: The Cook's Companion

Salmon with macaroni from A Year of Good Eating: The Kitchen Diaries III

Simple but delicious. Poaching the fish in 600 ml of cream (that's two bottles), which is then poured over the fish and pasta, sounds richer than it is. This is partly due to the dill in the crumb topping. I... read more >

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River Cottage Veg Every Day! (River Cottage Every Day)

By Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - 2011

Uses orzo or risoni, that tiny rice-shaped pasta, and does indeed result in something very like risotto. It lacked the creaminess of true risotto, but was very tasty.

With risotto you've got to get the hang of knowing when the rice is done - with this it's the mushrooms which need to be fried but not stewed.

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More a suggestion for using up what's to hand than a recipe! I used kipfler potatoes, butternut squash, shallots, garlic and carrots, cooked in my Spanish terracotta dish. Very tasty result.

It takes longer than a regular frittata but certainly makes a satisfying meatless meal of roast veggies. However I question Hugh's claim that it would feed 4 to 6 people unless it was only an entree - the two of us demolished the lot.

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The filing was delicious. However I was not impressed with the pastry which was hard to handle and made assembly difficult. I gave up on triangles and made cigars.

In future I might try making a pie, either with filo or Maggie Beer's sour cream pastry. And I think that frozen spinach would be perfectly OK

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I made this for lunch, but it's quite substantial and would serve as a main course if you had dessert to follow, or soup to begin.

Dead easy, no technique involved so long as you've got veggies of the right size and shape. And feta - I forgot to buy the ordinary kind and had to use marinated Meredith goats' cheese, so probably could have omitted the pesto, but I'd remembered to buy that!

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Ridiculously easy, so long as you've got a lime handy. I only had 650g of sweet potato, but it worked perfectly with a full quantity of the other ingredients (except the chilli flakes which I reduced as a matter of personal taste).

We had it as a side dish with roast lamb, and I will heat up the leftovers for lunch with a salad.

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