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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Sophie Grigson's Sunshine Food

By Sophie Grigson
BBC Books - 2000

Very tasty, easy, cheap, vegetarian. It's one of those dishes I've got several recipes of, but this one has a nice depth of flavor as it's got a slightly longer ingredient list. Still not much work at all, still not expensive at all, so do go through the trouble of making this and see how it is a lot better than the student mishmash it could be in a more simplified version.

I used canned tomatoes. I served it with bulgur, but I suspect rice, bread, or plain or mashed potatoes would be better.

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Nice enough pasta dish.

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Griddling the squid was very nice and quite straightforward. The tomato sauce was very good, giving the dish a very sunny feel.

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This does make a pretty good limoncello, using wodka a a base. It does take at least 5 weeks though.

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This is a very good combination of flavors, and it looks spectacular without being a lot of work.

Next time I will add only orange flower water and dates before chilling. Then it's possible to mix in the orange flower water well - I find it very hard to drizzle it evenly. The dates can also soften up a bit like that. The rest can be added just before serving.

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This was a very nice marinade. Don't forget to add all of it to the pan, as it gets even nicer when it is grilled along with the fish. I did think the cooking times given were a bit long.

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Disappointing. The taste was rather bland, and the recommended mushroom sauce only succeeded in reminding me of being vegetarian in the eighties.

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A lovely vegan omelette/pancake. Serve with drinks, or with soup or a salad as a light meal.

If you've ever had to buy a big bag of chickpea flour because you needed half a cup in a recipe, this is the recipe to use up the rest.

In the photo fennel seeds were used instead of rosemary. Also very good.

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Very nice, but not more than that.
I did not feel the mascarpone added much. Maybe I will try the tomato sauce next time.

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The rose water and mint really give strawberries a lift. Very easy to make, as well.

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Nice fruit cake.

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When I read the recipe I thought it used way too much salt, and I was right. While this recipe does need to be well-salted, half the amount given is plenty.
Apart from that, it is as lovely as Sophie says: bright and clean and invigorating.

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