Notes about Recipes in this book

• Turkish red lentil soup with Aleppo pepper oil

  • amgenove on July 29, 2020

    Very spicy! Might add spinach leaves to make it heartier.

  • Apepin on November 07, 2021

    Great simple recipe. I sometimes use chicken stock in place of the water.

• Orecchiette with Italian sausage and Swiss chard

  • Rinshin on September 27, 2018

    Ok taste but not something I would repeat again. Not much to the taste and I just felt like all the individual ingredients were wasted in cooking this mediocre pasta.

  • Shewi128 on September 13, 2023

    3.5 stars maybe. I didn't have peppadew peppers, so I substituted sweet pickled cherry peppers. I think it needed more than 1/4 cup. Also, I've never eaten the stems of chard before, and I will never do that again. I don't know what they add to the recipe, but I wouldn't include them again. The recipe was just ok.

• Ginger beef with rice noodles and herbs

  • JillT. on January 19, 2018

    Grilled skirt steak instead of sirloin tips, fabulous flavors!

  • Partyof7 on October 24, 2025

    This was nice, pleasant, but nothing special for me. I feel like it’s missing something…. The directions for cooking the sirloin tips are perfect. I replaced some of the fish sauce with water, as directed, as it was too strong. I should have served it with a cucumber salad.

• Salmon chraimeh

  • skjohns on October 13, 2020

    10/12/2020 - made just for me: This was really good, very simple and easy to make. Watch the cooked temp of the salmon carefully. It went from 110 to 130 in a little over a minute on medium low. I wanted 125. I cooked 3 6oz fillets and ate half each night (9oz) with just a salad. it was plenty. I thought about adding rice but it was not really necessary.

  • Rinshin on April 24, 2021

    Simple and quick. I used fresh grape tomatoes to make sauce so that was cooked longer. To keep it a more saucy consistency for later tossing with pasta, water was added 3 times. My filet was not thick so they cooked very quickly. It is a good taste and should satisfy most people for week night meals. The predominant taste was coriander and cumin. Photo added.

• Harissa roasted potatoes

  • sarahawker on October 10, 2018

    Very good. Not as spicy as it looked, family loved this served with roast chicken.

  • twoyolks on June 11, 2020

    I did not like the combination of roast potatoes and harissa.

• Cacio e pepe

  • sarahawker on March 15, 2022

    This recipe did not work out that well for us, we definitely had issues w/ the cheese clumping, as the article mentioned and had to double the amount of corn starch to get it to start to smooth out. Flavor was okay but I really really wanted it creamy, this was not it.

  • anya_sf on June 08, 2025

    Wish I had seen sarahawker's note. I made the gricia variation (but with slightly less pancetta - all I had). My cheese sauce also did not get completely smooth, although it was mostly OK once mixed with the pasta. Thought I'd never say this, but it seemed like too much cheese (I weighed it) - pecorino is pretty salty.

• Pita bread

  • HalfSmoke on January 20, 2018

    One of the best pita recipes I’ve used. Excellent.

• Coconut-cashew cake (Sanwin makin)

  • TonyInSeattle on May 20, 2021

    This cake was fantastic. I made only one minor change, and that was to use almonds instead of cashews (because I didn't have any). The cake is moist, not too sweet, and the cardamom gives it a nice warmth. Best the first day, but we just enjoyed day-old pieces, and they were still very yummy. Perfect with afternoon lattes.