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Moosewood Cookbook
By Mollie Katzen
Ten Speed Press - 1992
Basic Corn Bread : page 114
This recipe is exactly as advertised - a basic corn bread. Our family loved it! We followed the recipe as written, opting to use the yogurt, rather than the buttermilk, and opting to use the sugar, rather than the honey. I found that it took an extra 5 minutes to cook all the way through. I appreciated that it wasn't too sweet.
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Cauliflower Cheese Pie : page 159
Delicious! This recipe isn't difficult, but it does take a long time. The grated potato and onion crust was pure genius, but it takes 40 minutes to bake. I agree with Rachel that giving the cauliflower enough time to saute is very important.
After adding the vegetables, this pie requires an additional 40 minutes to bake. So plan ahead - for me it was just shy of 2 hours, start to finish.
I used smoked paprika on top - that gave it a bit more wow.
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Chilled Cucumber-Yogurt Soup : page 30
A delightfully tart and slightly effervescent soup. The combination of dill, mint, yogurt, and cucumber are awesome. This was great on a spring day, and would be even better in the heat of summer.
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Herbed Carrot Soup : page 23
This is a beautiful soup, and it tasted fine. Nothing amazing, but good. I followed the recipe as specified, and the result had a very nice texture. I blended it in my food processor, and continued to cook about 20 minutes after blending, and the carrots still had presence (in a good way). A nice enough soup, but probably won't be repeated.
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Italian Antipasto : page 60
This two-page recipe includes separate recipe for preparing garbanzo beans, cauliflower and carrots, mushrooms, swiss chard, pepper, Artichokes, and a generic "other items". My DH prepared all of these for our cookbook club, as he noticed that I was very burnt out from work, travel, and remodeling.
The marinade recipes were remarkable in the large amount of olive oil called for, but all that olive oil made everything delicious. Also notable was that the recipe does not specify the number it feeds, and this made a lot. Plenty for our dinner of 9 people, and enough left for tomorrow's dinner of 8. The artichokes might have been the most impressive - I liked these much more than the traditional boiled artichoke dipped in butter or mayo. The mushrooms were also spectacular, and I could eat the cauliflower any day.
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Russian Cabbage Borscht : page 27
YUM! I have never before prepared Borscht, but I decided to try it today to make soup in a color fitting for Valentine's day.
I loved the mix of different vegetables, and the beet definitely gave it that dark red color I was looking for.
The only deviation I made in the recipe is that the vegetables were still pretty chunky after the full cooking time. I cooked it an additional 15 minutes, and then took a coarse potato masher to it to break up the slices of beet.
This rating is based on two votes of 5 and two vote of 3, which revealed this to be an adult-friendly dish.
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Samosas : page 170
Oh Monkey Rose, how I wish I had read your review! I prepared this recipe as instructed, only I doubled the ginger (if you read my reviews, you know that doubling the ginger is pretty common with me). Still these turned out bland. The filling had a good texture, and they looked pretty nice, but so disappointing to have them be bland, as it is quite a bit of work. (2 hrs start to finish, if you work quickly).
I made the dough recipe without butter, and it turned out OK. I liked that they were baked (much less fat).
If I make these again, I'm doing as monkey rose suggests, doubling all the spices, and adding extras.
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