Cookbook project
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ghoti_mhic_uaitI'm actually a lot further through this than I have photos, or than I've written up. I think I wrote up 3; I've done 11.
Favourite boating recipes by Cas Best
Very nice pork and apricot casserole, served with plain cous cous. Would work with turkey & cranberry or lamb&apricot, too, I think.
Even nicer apple pie. I don't often make pastry, but this is well worth the effort, and it has a lovely light topping, too.
New Vegetarian Entertaining by Jane Noraika
Aubergine rolls with pesto risotto. There's also a red pepper sauce with this, which was v tasty but I forgot to take a photo. Pesto risotto was great, aubergine surprisingly easy to roll.
Judith is curious about hers (she had just aubergine and red pepper).
I also made grilled pineapple with coconut and lime ice cream. The ice cream was nice, but would have been better if I'd remembered to stir it... the pineapple gained nothing by being grilled.
The Chocolate Bible by Christine McFadden and Christine France
Sticky chocolate, maple and walnut whirls. These were quite nice.
Recipes from a Seventeenth Century Kitchen (Wherein is shewn the finest methods of preparing and cooking a variety of edibles and drinkables from the period of the first English settlements in America) by Master Chef, Donald R Daly
I made Salmon in ale with sweet potatoes with onion and bacon, followed by New England hasty pudding. The salmon was delicious, the sweet potatoes less so. Hasty pudding was quite nice, I might make again. There's a nice looking soup recipe for Jerusalem artichokes which I'll try when they're in season again.
Best Ever Three and Four Ingredient Cookbook by Jenny White
I made Cayenne pepper chicken wings and crab and water chestnut spring rolls, followed by Gaelic steaks with cauliflower and garlic crumbs and garlic and fennel mash. The chicken wings were a bit boring, the spring rolls were nice but would benefit from thinnner wrappers... clearly I need a pasta machine for making spring roll/gyoza wrappers. I liked the whiskey and cream sauce for the steaks, but the boys were all "Mmm.. lump of cow... what sauce?" B didn't want to eat the mash, and neither did I really, but the cauliflower was alright, I just wouldn't bother again. ICYI, I used Tyrconnell. Would also work with a nice savoury Scotch, something like Balvenie.
Japanese Cooking by Peter and Joan Martin
There was a suggested menu, so I followed that, but it was a bit disappointing.
Prawn and watercress soup, mixed salad (julienne of carrot cucumber and celery with chicken and a sweet sauce), baked salmon and plain rice. The salad was too sweet, the salmon was nice, but not as nice as the previous cookbook challenge salmon, and the soup was boring.
Fast Cakes by Mary Berry
Battenburg. Jacob thought it was Beef Wellington; enough said.
South East Asian Food by Rosemary Brissenden
Again, there were menu suggestions. I couldn't get all the ingredients, so I was expecting t be disappointed, but I was surprised. That's also why there are no veg
Chicken satay followed by Sambal Goreng Hati (chilli fried liver), white rice and prawn crackers.
Satay was lovely, the chicken was nice and moist and the sauce was only a little bit hot. The liver was very nice; it was basically poached in coconut milk. I will definitely be poaching liver in coconut milk again.
So, now for this round I still need to do British/Irish, Rest of Europe, and Rest of World. A brand new South American cookbook arrived this week, and I'll be cooking Italian when I get my pasta machine as previously mentioned. Oh, and when Colin and I next eat alone, I'm going to use my 70s 'It's fun to Entertain' book (B is too much of a food snob). So, I more or less have the next three planned, and then I'm going to buy an African book.
Favourite boating recipes by Cas Best
Very nice pork and apricot casserole, served with plain cous cous. Would work with turkey & cranberry or lamb&apricot, too, I think.
Even nicer apple pie. I don't often make pastry, but this is well worth the effort, and it has a lovely light topping, too.
New Vegetarian Entertaining by Jane Noraika
Aubergine rolls with pesto risotto. There's also a red pepper sauce with this, which was v tasty but I forgot to take a photo. Pesto risotto was great, aubergine surprisingly easy to roll.
Judith is curious about hers (she had just aubergine and red pepper).
I also made grilled pineapple with coconut and lime ice cream. The ice cream was nice, but would have been better if I'd remembered to stir it... the pineapple gained nothing by being grilled.
The Chocolate Bible by Christine McFadden and Christine France
Sticky chocolate, maple and walnut whirls. These were quite nice.
Recipes from a Seventeenth Century Kitchen (Wherein is shewn the finest methods of preparing and cooking a variety of edibles and drinkables from the period of the first English settlements in America) by Master Chef, Donald R Daly
I made Salmon in ale with sweet potatoes with onion and bacon, followed by New England hasty pudding. The salmon was delicious, the sweet potatoes less so. Hasty pudding was quite nice, I might make again. There's a nice looking soup recipe for Jerusalem artichokes which I'll try when they're in season again.
Best Ever Three and Four Ingredient Cookbook by Jenny White
I made Cayenne pepper chicken wings and crab and water chestnut spring rolls, followed by Gaelic steaks with cauliflower and garlic crumbs and garlic and fennel mash. The chicken wings were a bit boring, the spring rolls were nice but would benefit from thinnner wrappers... clearly I need a pasta machine for making spring roll/gyoza wrappers. I liked the whiskey and cream sauce for the steaks, but the boys were all "Mmm.. lump of cow... what sauce?" B didn't want to eat the mash, and neither did I really, but the cauliflower was alright, I just wouldn't bother again. ICYI, I used Tyrconnell. Would also work with a nice savoury Scotch, something like Balvenie.
Japanese Cooking by Peter and Joan Martin
There was a suggested menu, so I followed that, but it was a bit disappointing.
Prawn and watercress soup, mixed salad (julienne of carrot cucumber and celery with chicken and a sweet sauce), baked salmon and plain rice. The salad was too sweet, the salmon was nice, but not as nice as the previous cookbook challenge salmon, and the soup was boring.
Fast Cakes by Mary Berry
Battenburg. Jacob thought it was Beef Wellington; enough said.
South East Asian Food by Rosemary Brissenden
Again, there were menu suggestions. I couldn't get all the ingredients, so I was expecting t be disappointed, but I was surprised. That's also why there are no veg
Chicken satay followed by Sambal Goreng Hati (chilli fried liver), white rice and prawn crackers.
Satay was lovely, the chicken was nice and moist and the sauce was only a little bit hot. The liver was very nice; it was basically poached in coconut milk. I will definitely be poaching liver in coconut milk again.
So, now for this round I still need to do British/Irish, Rest of Europe, and Rest of World. A brand new South American cookbook arrived this week, and I'll be cooking Italian when I get my pasta machine as previously mentioned. Oh, and when Colin and I next eat alone, I'm going to use my 70s 'It's fun to Entertain' book (B is too much of a food snob). So, I more or less have the next three planned, and then I'm going to buy an African book.
