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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9 recipe(s) reviewed. Showing 1 to 9Sort by: Title | Date | Rating

Eat This Book: Cooking with Global Fresh Flavors

By Tyler Florence
Clarkson Potter - 2005

Excellent. A nice touch of orange and a good amount of nutty freshness from the arugula. The almond flavor could have been more pronounced - next time I will take more almonds and/or toast them first.
However, the freshness does not last long, so don't make more of this variation than you need right away. You can make the mayonnaise in advance, just wait with mixing in the extras.

I used this as a dip with celery sticks, and with fried potatoes. I loved it, and so did the kids. I will also try it with fennel.

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Lovely, though not as spectacular as he claims. I fried the bacon in two pans, as I didn't want to heat up the oven for just a bit of bacon.

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Not bad at all, but I felt there were too many ingredients in this.

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A very good fragrant curry powder.

I made one third of the amount, used mostly preground spices, and stir-fried some aubergine and cauliflower in it. excellent.

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This was lovely, with a good crisp crust and a lovely lemony sauce.

The cooking time seems quite short, but with the cutlets really thin, and the chicken spending some time in the oven as well as in the pan, all worked out fine.

Pay some attention to the balance of butter and lemon juice. A bit too much lemon juice and the sauce starts to taste "thin".

The sauce is easier to eat if you quarter the lemon rounds. But if presentation is a big thing to you, you might prefer them whole.

I think half the amount of egg and flour would have coated the chicken just as well.

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A mayonnaise-based romesco. It works quite well.

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This was good. Easy and it tasted quite authentic. Next time I would like to add the paneer cubes a bit earlier so they can interact with the sauce a bit more.

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I made a deconstructed version of this, grilling the fennel and red pepper and using the rest as a dip/salad dressing. It was very good, the flavors really work well together.

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The toasting instructions were fine. I was afraid this would be very hot so I toned down the chile, but like that it was barely noticeable. Next time the full amount of chile, or possibly other spices instead.

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