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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The Simpler the Better : Sensational One-Dish Meals

By Leslie Revsin, Rick Rodgers
Wiley - 2005

This was OK. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing terribly special either. I think I know better things to do with the ingredients.

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I deconstructed this a bit - I cooked the chicken separately and made a sauce of the other ingredients. I used fish sauce instead of soy sauce, as suggested, and I used a bit less of it as it has a stronger flavor.

The result was very tasty, with a subtle Thai-like flavor. I will make this again.

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Nice. The salmon gets a crunchy crust, and the mustard adds a horseradish-like accent. I thought the fennel and peppers didn't combine that well with the salmon, but my husband liked the combination.

But why would you use ready-roast bell peppers as an ingredient in a recipe where you are going to roast the fennel anyway? Just use normal red peppers and put them in a bit earlier. Nothing wrong with roast peppers from a jar, but this is definitely not their place.

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