friederike's Reviews
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Grown in Britain Cookbook
By Carolyn Humphries, Donna Air
Dorling Kindersley - 2009
Asparagus Cream Cheese Quiche : page 52
Hmm, not really. With only 175g flour to 90g butter/lard, the pastry was too dry (again! Although it wasn't quite the disaster this shortcrust pastry was), and the filling was clearly too heavy and too cheesy/salty to let the asparagus unfold its flavour. The asparagus could have been cooked just slightly longer but was still within limits. What a shame, this could have been such a great dish. We might try the very similar Asparagus Tart with Wild Garlic from Spargel.
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Salmon Chowder with Whisky : page 216
Excellent soup, can be served as a starter for a formal dinner, although I liked the taste better when we started eating than in the end. But may be that was because I thought too favourably of it then.
Don't use all the liquid, our soup turned out slightly too liquid, and be careful with the timing of the salmon, its preferable to add the salmon just too late than too early, you can always let it cook just a little longer.
Edited 28 February:
Really good dish for daily cooking. Very easy to prepare, and good to prepare in advance. Remember to cook off the alcohol after you've added the whisky.
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Tomato and Onion Tart : page 147
Meh. The pastry crumbled into pieces (and what luck that we had plates, originally we had planned it as an on-the-road-dinner!), and it tasted really really strange. I didn’t like the taste of the texture, if you understand what I mean (a crumbled tart doesn’t need to be too bad if you have a plate anyway, the texture can – theoretically – still have a nice feel in your mouth – this one didn’t), but additionally it contained a lot of cinnamon which I didn’t like.
The filling tasted not only boring, but a little like an uninspired pasta sauce - as bad as it can get! If the rest would have been better I probably would have considered giving the tart another try and making it with the Tomato Sauce with Onion and Butter next time, but I won’t. It looked nice, though. Sad that that’s the only good thing to say about it.
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Winter Cabbage Salad : page 75
Quite a nice salad. It's nice in flavour and looks very beautiful with the purple colour from the cabbage. The only problem is that even though I had chopped the cabbage as fine as I could, it was still pretty hard to chew. Also, it's clearly meant to be served as a side dish, not as a light main course or lunch box; it's too simple and one-dimensional for that. I asked DH if it would help to grate the cabbage to make it easier to chew; but he thinks that would reduce the visual beauty of the salad, while the chewiness would matter less if you served it as a side dish.
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