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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More Vegetables, Please: Delicious Vegetable Side Dishes for Everyday Meals

By Janet Kessel Fletcher
Harlow & Ratner - 1992

Lovely - silky and rich. Very easy to make.

I prefer to cut them to in bite-size pieces as the outer skin hardens a bit. This is a lovely contrast with the gooey inside, but not if you have to cut up a whole leek first. It does look better if you leave them whole (or half), though.

I served this with plain rice and chicken livers with thyme. It was good. Celeriac mash and a fried egg was also a good combination.

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Not bad, but there are more interesting things to do with broccoli, or with sour cream and dill, and there are other mashes that are either simpler to make or more interesting to eat.

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Not really my idea of a raita - more a salad than a sauce.
The flavor was nice but somehow lacked depth.

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All very nice, good combination, but it somehow totally failed to excite me.
The artichokes cooked quite unevenly as well, and they needed more time than stated.

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More an ingredient suggestion than a recipe, but a good combination. I added some fennel seeds, too, and I liked it.

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The sauce is very nice, but the cabbage is a bit too raw for my liking when prepared following the instructions. Next time I'd cut it in smaller pieces or cook longer.

Some caraway is also nice with this one.

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Nice, but not quite worth the the work.

Cooking the ribs takes the most time, all other parts of the recipe (except separating the leaves and the ribs, of course) can be done while they are cooking, so it's best to start with that step (step 4).

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