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

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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Simply delicious cookies

By Family Living
Riverwood press - 2008

If you have children, it's good to have a good variation of cookie recipes for rainy afternoons. This book is fine for that. There is enough variation and some nice decoration ideas. Some of the recipes are not really recipes but ideas for pimping ready-made cookies, and some others depend on ingredients that I can't easily get in Europe, but that's just a few. The recipes I've made so far have all turned out well.

(The captions of the photos on the cover should be reversed: the cookies in the basket are the springerle, the cookies with the tree design are the white chocolate cookies.)