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

Great Food Without Fuss: Simple Recipes from the Best Cooks

By Frances McCullough, Barbara Witt
Henry Holt & Co - 1992

Good everyday food.

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With this title, I had expected more garlic and more oil, but this is pretty subtle. The turmeric turns out to be as important to the taste of this recipe as the garlic. Anyway, it is a nice recipe but not earth-shattering.

I had this with macaroni carbonara which was a mistake. Rice would be much better.

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A nice soup, tasty and filling, and easy to make vegetarian or even vegan. No flour either.

Would be good for those parties where you want a big pot of soup for the moment people start to get hungry.

The color is unappetizing though - the parsley is quite needed to make it look OK.

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A good salad. Take care not to over-salt it, it only needs a little.

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Delicious, different, and very quick.

I served it with Skillet Scallions from the same cookbook, as suggested, and plain rice.

Do make sure the salmon is at or near room temperature, otherwise it may not cook properly.
The ingredients do have to chopped very fine indeed.
I thought the shallots were a bit overpowering. Unless yours are much smaller than mine, you can halve the amount given.
On the other hand, it can use a tad more vinegar.

I slightly prefer the walnut version to the hazelnut one.

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Nice and quick. The scallions remind of leeks if cooked in this way.

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Together with the Zuni Café's brine this made an amazing turkey - succulent meat, brown crispy skin, and very tasty.

We used a baby turkey (6 pounds) and roasted it for 1 hour, covering it with foil about halfway. We then rested it for about half an hour. It was well-cooked throughout, no pink bits anywhere.

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This is quite a nice way to serve turnips.

If the turnips are older, the cooking time should be doubled.

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