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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By Janet Hazen
Chronicle Books - 1995

This was a lovely and very gingery salad. Nice contrast of textures as well.

The recipes uses ginger both to boil the chicken with and to add to the salad dressing. I found boiling it with ginger didn't change the taste of the chicken that much. Maybe if you would have it on its own, but not in this salad with so much more ginger in the dressing. The ginger in the dressing seemed a bit much, so I started with two thirds, tasted it, and decided to add the last third as well, to give a good strong (but not overly hot) ginger taste.

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