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From: Salt Lake City, UT USA

Joined: March 29th, 2010

About me: I enjoy cooking, and my favorite internet COOKING community is the one here at cookbooker. If you want to connect about my other non-academic passion, you can find me as QueezleWeaver on Ravelry, and mostly Warped Weavers. But I've miss you cookbooker, and so here I am again, and happy to contribute.

Favorite cookbook: Savory Way

Favorite recipe: roasted anything (most recently grapes)

Stuffed Zucchini with spiced beef or lamb from Zaitoun

When it is zucchini time, it can be difficult to find something interesting. But this was both different and a total delight! Zucchini are scraped out and roasted. The "meat" from within the zucchini... read more >

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7 recipe(s) reviewed. Showing 1 to 7Sort by: Title | Date | Rating

My Two Souths: Blending the Flavors of India into a Southern Kitchen

By Asha Gomez, Martha Hall Foose
Running Press - 2016

This was my favorite dish prepared from this cookbook. A rich assortment of fruit (and a bit of greens), an amazing dressing, and shrimp seemed a natural accompaniment. This would be a good dish for a fancy dinner -- impressive.

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This recipe has potential but I found it pretty heavy. Cardamom in corn bread, though, is a great idea. This was prepared for my cookbook club.

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Who doesn't love a good berry cobbler?
What made this recipe special to me was the very crunchy raw sugar topping. It was the perfect complement to the light fluffy biscuits and soft liquidy blackberries.

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If you love potatoes, then these were made for you. These were prepared for my cooking club, and my son thought they were the best of all the recipes. The ajowan seeds (which turned out to be easy to source) added an interesting and unique flavor (and good!).

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Its a fair bit of chopping, but you will be richly rewarded for your work. This made one of the best whole roasted chicken I have had in a looooong time. A mint/pepper/garlic/lime sauce is rubbed under the skin, on the skin, and on the bed of vegetables. Chicken was also stuffed with a halved lemon, thyme, and more of the sauce.

I am so glad that I prepared two of these!

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Mussels are always good when fresh. But for this recipe the broth in which the mussels cooked was brilliant. It was great for sopping up with bread.

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Meh... this recipe has potential, but it turned out a very very mild dish. Onions are sauteed in ghee, cardamom and star anise, gently crushed, is added. garlic, etc, then chunks of chicken breast, broth, and rice.

I deviated by using brown rice in place of basmati, and used raisins instead of apricots.

But even with additional salt, it didn't have any of the flavor notes that whisper "india" to me. And I have a ton of leftovers (I doubled the recipe).

I think I will add some ginger next time, and maybe some red pepper flakes to wake this dish up!

On the plus side, the chicken was tender, it was easy, and only dirtied up one pot and a serving bowl.

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