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

The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Ancestors: Recipes You Should Have Gotten from Your Grandmother

By Jeff Smith
William Morrow & Co - 1990

Easy, tastes good, looks great (although my daughter asked "Why did you use a highlighter on the cauliflower?").

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Quite tasty.

A winter dish, even though all the ingredients are available year-round. In summer frying in olive oil is better.

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Robust everyday fare. Pretty good, but not brilliant.

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A very nice variation of the fried egg.

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A nice way with spinach, I don't know how fireproof his kids are, but mine did find it a bit spicy. Replacing the red pepper threads with red bell pepper helped. A few drops of lemon juice improves the dish as well.

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This was easy to make and very tasty. Do make sure the eggplant is not just browned but done as well, as it doesn't really cook any more once it is added to the eggs.

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Very nice, but not as nice as the kuku eggplant on the next page.

Do serve with yogurt, as indicated. It needs a bit of acidity to show its full flavor.

It needed more time on the stove than given in the recipe.
I used a teaspoon of ground coriander, and that worked well.
I thought the amount of salt indicated was a bit much, so I decreased it. Next time I will only use a third of it.

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A very basic, very good herring salad.

Horseradish can be replaced by mustard.

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