wester's Profile

From: Soesterberg, Utr Netherlands

Joined: September 24th, 2009

About me: I love cooking, I love eating, I love discovering new recipes. I have so many cookbooks I sometimes lose track of which recipe is where - though this site helps a bit. I have gone low-carb in 2010, so that's different recipes to explore again. This also means I may not agree with my own reviews anymore if they were written in 2009 or before. ------------------ I have a lovely husband and ten-year old twins who also love eating. ----------------- You can also find me on LibraryThing, BookMooch and EatYourBooks, using the same handle.

Favorite cookbook: The Complete Meze Table by Rosamond Man

Favorite recipe: Melissa Clark's Roasted Broccoli with Shrimp


Latest review:

April 4th, 2017

Daond Pasha (Meatballs with Pine Nuts and Tomatoes) from The Complete Meze Table

The meatballs were very tasty, but I did not really like putting all the pine nuts together - it made for fussy cooking and I think I would prefer finding a pine nut here and there instead of finding them... read more >


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The Balti Cookbook: Fast, Simple and Delicious Stir-fry Curries (Creative Cooking Library)

By Shehzad Husain
Lorenz Books - 1994

November 14th, 2010 (edited 14th November 2010)

I sometimes wonder why I haven't cooked from this book yet. Lovely instructive photos, and it all looks tasty.

And then I look closer and I know again. One, it is very much centered on meat and fish and my cooking usually isn't. Two, it often uses many different ingredients, and that is not even counting the spices, so I have to go shopping before I can make anything.