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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Thirst

By Nigel Slater
Fourth Estate - 2006

Smooth and creamy, or fresh and invigorating, or hearty and clean: there's a drink for every mood here, and I find myself using this book almost daily.

Uncomplicated but good suggestions for juices and smoothies. There are a couple of coffee/chocolate type drinks as well, and one alcoholic drink: a Bloody Mary. He will also help you find the right ripeness for juicing as opposed to for eating, from "obscenely ripe" for a mango to "quite a way from perfect ripeness" for a pear.

You will need a juicer and/or a blender for most of the recipes - it actually made me buy a secondhand juicer. It numbers the recipes instead of the pages. Some of the recipes are essentially doubles.