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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8 recipe(s) reviewed. Showing 1 to 8Sort by: Title | Date | Rating

On Rice: 60 Fast and Easy Toppings That Make the Meal

By Rick Rodgers, Frankie Frankeny
Chronicle Books - 1997

Strong-flavored mediterranean seafood. Maybe a tad salty, even without any added salt.

I made this with mixed seafood instead of just squid, which is nice too.

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This wasn't bad at all, but there are so many other things you could do with the same ingredients that are a lot better (such as roasting them). I probably won't make it again.

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Very good. No big surprises, but a good combination of sunny flavors. Easy & fast to make.

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This was quite good. Hearty winter fare. But I do think it is in the wrong cookbook, as I'm pretty sure it would be better with mashed potatoes, or with buttered noodles, than it was with rice.

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Nice easy aromatic vegetarian meal.

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This does taste quite 'Chinese'. I wasn't very taken with boiling instead of frying the eggplant, but my husband was.

Next time I will egg-fry the rice going with this.

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This one is quite hot, and the hotness is unevenly distributed: the mushrooms get very hot, but the chicken not so much. I'm not sure I like that. I would also only just wilt the basil, not cook it.
Apart from that, a good bastardization of Thai kitchen.
Don't reheat, the basil doesn't like that.

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This did nothing for me. It tasted well, but there was nothing special or even particular about the taste. Won't bother with this again.

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