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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Things Cooks Love: Implements, Ingredients, Recipes

By Sur La Table, Marie Simmons
Andrews McMeel Publishing - 2008

This book looks great, with full color photos of different kinds of cookware. It also gives good descriptions of all of them, including alternatives if you don't happen to own this particular pan - it does not try to "sell" you more cookware than you need. It also gives a few recipes for every piece of cookware - good ones but not indispensable.

A good book if you are thinking about getting more pans, or less of them - it will help you decide what you really want.

The index is not good - for several recipes neither first word or main ingredient of the recipe gave a result. E.g. Apple-and-ginger-spiced Sweet Potatoes was not found with apple, sweet potato or ginger, only with potato.