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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


Latest review:

April 4th, 2017

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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Veelzijdige eiergerechten

By Wina Born
Zomer & Keuning BV - 1991

11th February 2011 (edited: 18th March 2011)

Ardense eieren : page 54

Recipe in Dutch

If you have the ingredients for bacon and eggs, and you know how to separate an egg, you can make this one instead, where the egg whites are made into a luxurious fluffy omelet with the whole egg whites almost hidden inside. A really good lunch or light dinner.

I think whipping cream would be better than sour cream, and leaving out the cream altogether is a possibility as well.

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18th February 2011 (edited: 21st February 2011)

Chinese theeƫieren : page 19

Chinese tea eggs. In Dutch.

A recipe that can be found in many other places, but this one works fine. The eggs are beautiful and taste very good.

Do take care not to crack the eggs themselves when you crack the shells. It is probably easier to keep the eggs whole when cooking them a bit longer, but you run the risk of making them too dry that way.
I prefer using a bit more five-spice powder than the pinch she says, about a teaspoon.
I suppose it should be possible to do more than one batch of eggs with the same tea.

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13th September 2013

Eieren met aubergine : page 13

Recipe in Dutch.

I liked the basic idea of this, but I thought the eggplant had too much bite even after tripling the cooking time, and the spices were too sharp and a bit "thin". Won't repeat this.

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1st December 2011 (edited: 1st December 2011)

Japanse roereieren met tofoe (Japanese scrambled eggs with tofu) : page 45

I didn't care for this at all - it was very salty and didn't taste of much else. Also, the instructions didn't work well, the egg stayed liquid in the middle.

However, I did like the structure of the end product, which was a bit like bread pudding. So I definitely will experiment with different flavors.

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11th February 2011 (edited: 11th February 2011)

Pickled eggs : page 10

Recipe in Dutch.

Eggs in spicy brine. Great for a quick snack, or for unexpected guests.

It is great to have a recipe for these, but it could still use some tweaking. Next time I will boil the eggs only 6 mins, as they were a bit dry. And I will also put in slightly more vinegar, make it half/half vinegar/water.

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13th February 2011 (edited: 13th February 2011)

Roerei met zalm : page 41

Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon. Recipe in Dutch.

A classic, and with good reason. A great lunch or light supper. Nigel Slater gives a slightly more elaborate description of how to scramble the eggs, but you can probably do without.

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