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Sophie Grigson's Feasts for a Fiver
By Sophie Grigson
BBC Books - 1999
Brightside Baked Potatoes : page 90
Something different for the everyday meal. Tasty and colorful. Can easily be adapted to other ingredients.
I thought the potatoes could use a bit more oven time.
I also preferred to put the yogurt on the potatoes themselves and serve the "filling" next to it.
If you want to serve a salad with this, take a peppery one - red onions and/or oranges come to mind. You don't really need a salad though.
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Buttered lettuce with cumin and lemon : page 140
A good variation on the green salad. Simple, tasty, and different from the normal geen salad / vinaigrette, but not so different it becomes difficult to combine.
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Chicken Liver and Spinach Pancakes : page 145
I adapted this to a low-carb diet by using omelets instead of pancakes and more crème fraîche instead of bechamel sauce.
It was good, lovely comfort food. It would certainly look and taste good enough to serve to guests. Filling pancakes always makes me feel very old-fashioned housewifey, but it is an integral part of this recipe.
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I really liked this. The rhubarb relish combines brilliantly with the mackerel.
Most of this recipe can be done in advance. When it's dinner time, you just have to grill the mackerel.
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Kumar's Beetroot Curry : page 14
This was very nice, but I felt it missed something. Something tart? More spices? More chilies? Do make sure you put in enough chilies as the coconut and the beetroot compensate.
I felt the curry leaves were an important part of it even when they are called optional, but the pandanus leaf could be left out without a problem.
If you need a dramatic-looking curry, this is the one. It is a combination of very dark pink and dark red, with occasional red flecks.
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A nice idea. Do close them up well, the cheese tends to leak out.
Do use just ground pork for this. When I made them using a mix of ground pork and ground beef (which is much easier to find here in the Netherlands - weird but true), I found them a bit dry.
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I used a different crust, but the topping was very good.
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Rhubarb and Orange Jelly with Cardamom : page 153
This was lovely. The flavors merge into a new and intriguing flavor where it's pretty hard to make out the individual flavors, just this light fruity total flavor.
When I saw this recipe, I thought there was too much sugar and too little gelatin in it. I was right about the sugar - it's OK to nearly halve it - and wrong about the gelatin.
Next time, I might put one or two strawberries in, because it would look good and because it would go well with the rest.
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