Notes about Recipes in this book

• Celery and green apple salad with toasted almonds and shaved Parmigiano-Reggiano

  • Sleeth on December 06, 2019

    Simple, easy to make. Oddly, I had it with a frozen coffee (Joy of Cooking) for breakfast, and found it filling and tasty. It was easy to reduce recipe to a single serving.

• Pavlova shell

  • peaceoutdesign on December 18, 2021

    This has the possibility of being a great pavlova shell. For some reason, I couldn't get strong peaks to form but I think that it was my error by not the egg white not being perfectly at room temp. I also think that reducing the sugar to 1 cup would have been better all the way around.

  • peaceoutdesign on December 18, 2021

    I made it again and only used 1 cup total of ultrafine sugar and it was sweet enough. I also ground up about 10 decorticated cardamom seeds in with some of the sugar until a fine powder and added that. The merengue glossed up but again never formed stiff peaks. They were at room temp for quite some time so I am not sure what's happening. Instead of the grapes and did mixed berries.

• Autumn grape Pavlova

  • peaceoutdesign on December 18, 2021

    Unusual pavlova topping. It disappeared fast.

• Eggplant brownie cake

  • hbakke on June 14, 2020

    Eggplant in a "cake"? An odd idea. I made the recipe as written except I substituted golden syrup for the honey. We couldn't taste the eggplant at all in this not-at-all sweet cake. The texture is not cake or brownie like. It has an odd kind of dense texture like a steamed pudding. I don't know if I would make it again, but it's not bad.

• Fennel tarte Tatin

  • mjes on September 09, 2021

    I used regular caper berries not Nasturtium. This is an impressive dinner part dish but for family, we don't really need the puff pastry. So this runs from great to meh depending on your cooking style.

• Rhubarb chutney

  • hbakke on June 14, 2020

    A sweet, jammy chutney and not spicy at all. I would probably cut the raisins and ginger a bit smaller next time. This would go well with some sharp cheddar or other cheese.

  • laurenlangston on May 04, 2024

    Turned out great. Well-balanced, just complex enough, a quick fun addition to a cheese plate. My substitutions as I'm determined to use what's in the pantry today: Aleppo chili powder instead of fresh chilies, good quality honey vinegar instead of red wine vinegar.

• Classic zabaglione

  • peaceoutdesign on November 27, 2021

    This was my favorite Sabayon recipe so far becasue it wasn't as sweet even though it is the same amount of sugar. It could be that in the Silver Spoon they are using superfine sugar of that the marsala is doubled. Either way I prefer the less sweet. I cooked this over steaming water just in case. Make sure it doubles in volume.

• Delicata-celery salad

  • peaceoutdesign on December 05, 2021

    Very interesting and a great use for Delicata. For serving, I think that cutting the rounds into quarters is easier to eat and still looks good. Good for entertaining as a side salad.

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