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Cookbook project: Vegetarian/British
Apr. 17th, 2010 02:52 pmVegetarian:
Whenever I get something interesting in my veg box, or just want to do something a bit different, I pull out Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian Cookbook. So when I got sprouting chicpeas in my box, I knew that was the book for me. I decided to do it as a cookbook project and make the whole meal from there, but only one course.
So I made Chickpea & BVutternut squash stew with cous cous. The cous cous wasn't special, but that's what she put it with. The stew was delicious, and moreover both children liked it - Benedict not so much, but Judith was very enthusiastic. A nice mix of flavours and textures, and it has a pour-on sauce made of harissa and the broth from the veg, which is a good idea that I have borrowed since (and meant that it could be hotter for J than B. B ate his with raita instead).
I would highly recommend both the book and the recipe, will make again. Also, Judith now asks for 'ditdee'.
British:
Emily gave me the book Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cookin for a birthday a long time ago. It's a beautiful book. Each decade gets a chapter on the social and economic factors regarding food, and then a chapter of recipes (except the twenties which gets pre war/post war recipes). I decided that it made most sense to pick a decade, so I chose the 1960s. I made chicken maryland, quite the maddest food ever, followed by lemon cheesecake (because I'd never previously made a baked cheesecake). Children loved the chicken maryland, especially the rather thick corn fritters (much more heavily corn than any I've made before, I more often make tuna and sweetcorn I guess) and bananas as a main. Benedict didn't like the cheesecake, which to me resembled a sort of less intense lemon meringue pie. Adults liked it, but Judith was kind of meh. So we'll definitely have the chicken again, but not often, and the cheesecake maybe occasionalle.
Honourable mention:
Tomorrow is Benedict's 11th birthday. I am eagerly awaiting his Hogwarts acceptance letter, and in anticipation I made food from the Harry Potter books to take to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xanna's house for tea on wednesday. In particular, I very much enjoyed this chicken and ham pie recipe so I'm posting it here that you might enjoy it also. I'm not normally overly keen on chicken pie, so that is high praise indeed :)
Whenever I get something interesting in my veg box, or just want to do something a bit different, I pull out Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian Cookbook. So when I got sprouting chicpeas in my box, I knew that was the book for me. I decided to do it as a cookbook project and make the whole meal from there, but only one course.
So I made Chickpea & BVutternut squash stew with cous cous. The cous cous wasn't special, but that's what she put it with. The stew was delicious, and moreover both children liked it - Benedict not so much, but Judith was very enthusiastic. A nice mix of flavours and textures, and it has a pour-on sauce made of harissa and the broth from the veg, which is a good idea that I have borrowed since (and meant that it could be hotter for J than B. B ate his with raita instead).
I would highly recommend both the book and the recipe, will make again. Also, Judith now asks for 'ditdee'.
British:
Emily gave me the book Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cookin for a birthday a long time ago. It's a beautiful book. Each decade gets a chapter on the social and economic factors regarding food, and then a chapter of recipes (except the twenties which gets pre war/post war recipes). I decided that it made most sense to pick a decade, so I chose the 1960s. I made chicken maryland, quite the maddest food ever, followed by lemon cheesecake (because I'd never previously made a baked cheesecake). Children loved the chicken maryland, especially the rather thick corn fritters (much more heavily corn than any I've made before, I more often make tuna and sweetcorn I guess) and bananas as a main. Benedict didn't like the cheesecake, which to me resembled a sort of less intense lemon meringue pie. Adults liked it, but Judith was kind of meh. So we'll definitely have the chicken again, but not often, and the cheesecake maybe occasionalle.
Honourable mention:
Tomorrow is Benedict's 11th birthday. I am eagerly awaiting his Hogwarts acceptance letter, and in anticipation I made food from the Harry Potter books to take to
xanna's house for tea on wednesday. In particular, I very much enjoyed this chicken and ham pie recipe so I'm posting it here that you might enjoy it also. I'm not normally overly keen on chicken pie, so that is high praise indeed :)
