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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7 recipe(s) reviewed. Showing 1 to 7Sort by: Title | Date | Rating

Keeping it Simple

By Gary Rhodes
Michael Joseph - 2005

Easy to make and a nice alternative to chips, although they don't really get a crust. Next time I will keep them in the oven 10 mins longer and turn them over halfway to improve browning.

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This really is a posh variation of pasta with spinach, blue cheese and bacon, and while it is a nice enough variation, it does not quite justify the higher expense.

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Good robust vegetable sauce, but I felt the fish didn't add much.

I grilled not just the tomatoes but the other vegetables as well - 10-15 minutes on their own and another 10-15 with the tomatoes added.

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I only made the fennel part of this recipe and combined it with the roast mackerel of page 68 of the same book (I don't have a steam pan that holds four mackerel), and rice. The combination was good.

It was a nice way to make fennel, although I'm not sure you need to steam it if you're not steaming the mackerel as well - you might as well add a splash of water and put it directly on the fire.

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Nice, classic flavors.

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I only made the roast mackerel of this recipe and combined it with the fennel on page 65 of the same book (I didn't have enough potatoes at hand to make the full recipe), and rice. The combination was good, although some good bread (instead of the rice) to mop up the lovely pan juices would be even better.

The fish was lovely and moist, and easy to make. A good basic technique.

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This is pretty much how I always make cauliflower - panfried with spices. The precooking of the cauliflower is not really necessary if the flowerets are small enough.

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