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Sophie Grigson's Country Kitchen: 120 Seasonal Recipes
By Sophie Grigson
Headline Book Publishing - 2003
Baked Eggs with Leeks and Smoked Salmon : page 188
I made this with a few small changes - I used an onion instead of leeks or spring onions, and I omitted the smoked salmon and added a few drops of truffle oil. The onion was definitely too strong in taste, leek or spring onion will probably work better. The truffle oil was very nice, but be careful not to use too much, should be just a few drops. And be careful with salt as well.
My main problem was that I accidentally used too much cream, so after 12 minutes, I still had a lot of liquid cream covering the egg; it was only because I poked around I knew that the egg had set. Unfortunately, the egg yolk had been covered by the cream as well, and wasn't quite as runny as I had hoped.
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Pumpkin, Smoked Haddock and Lime Soup : page 124
I made the South-East-Asian Version, and additionally I substituted mackerel for haddock. Strange enough, the mackerel was dominant, the ginger and chilli hardly discernible, and the pumpkin had completely disappeared. Additionally, I'm not entirely sure I enjoy the taste of pureed smoked fish in a soup. Chowder with bits of smoked fish, yes, but not necessarily pureed.
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