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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Madhur Jaffrey's Quick and Easy Indian Cookery (Quick & easy cookery)

By Madhur Jaffrey
BBC Books - 1993

This was very fragrant, it tasted really "Indian", and it was easy to make.

I have made this both with little meatballs of ground lamb and with horse stewing meat. Both worked out fine. The meatballs needed about half an hour in a regular saucepan, the stewing meat I let stew over two hours. I was a bit afraid that the long stewing time would be bad for the spinach, but it was fine.

I didn't like finding a cardamon pod in my food every few bites, so I will probably use ground cardamom next time. The other whole spices didn't bother me.

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Lovely and fragrant.

I childproofed this one by replacing the chillies with half a bell pepper, and reducing the ginger to just a pinch.

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Extremely simple, and quite good, actually.
Good store-cupboard lunch or dinner.

Identical to recipe in Madhur Jaffrey Cooks Curries.

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A very tasty omelet with spring onions and fresh coriander.

I made one for the children without ginger and chillies, and one for the adults with everything. They were both very tasty.

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A good simple recipe with good Indian flavors.

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This was very good. Subtly but clearly spiced. Not really quick if you don't have a pressure cooker, but definitely easy.

I used goat meat for this, as it was said that was the original version, and it was available, and it worked very well. I am sure both beef and lamb would work perfectly too.

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