Notes about Recipes in this book

• Stuffed spatchcocked turkey

  • emiliang on November 24, 2023

    This was a winner recipe: moist turkey meat with plenty of delicious dressing. The only challenging part was spatchcocking the turkey (24-48 hours in advance of roasting). You'll need some really good kitchen shears for that. The rest of the recipe was easy and low stress. My 12-lb bird was done two hours after lowering the temp to 325. If you start to prep the dressing at 8am, the turkey will be ready at around 1pm.

• Japanese curry rice with chicken (Kare raisu)

  • anya_sf on September 11, 2025

    I only had 6 oz potatoes, so I added a diced zucchini with the carrots + potatoes, plus some frozen peas at the end. Accidentally used regular table salt instead of Kosher, so I used low sodium soy sauce and it wasn't too salty (extra veg and rice helped). Very tasty with a squeeze of lemon, as suggested, since we didn't have the pickles. We only got 3 servings, but there was plenty of sauce so the amounts of chicken and vegetables could certainly be increased.

  • allisonsemele on September 29, 2025

    Doubled the curry roux to have extra bricks for the freezer. Made as directed, except accidentally doubled the mustard powder (don’t think it made much difference) and threw in some spinach at the end. Very nice and made around six servings. The directions note that after adding the miso and spices to the roux, the mixture won’t be completely smooth. The texture I had was “wet very fine sand” but it worked fine in the end. I will probably halve the potato quantity and add more veggies for a lighter meal next time.

  • emstovall on February 17, 2026

    I add a diced red bell pepper with the carrots and potatoes too boost the vegetables and bump up the chicken to 1.5 to 2 lbs to make it 6 servings. i just make the roux in the time the dish simmers rather than making it in advance

• Japanese curry-roux bricks

  • anya_sf on September 11, 2025

    I didn't have fenugreek so just omitted it. Easy to halve. Worked well in the curry and we enjoyed the flavor (not spicy at all, but that's easy to adjust to taste).

• Chocolate olive oil cake

  • Kinhawaii on November 24, 2023

    I thought this was nice as a snacking cake but as anything more I was underwhelmed. Partly this was because 30 minutes was too long in my oven & it was a little dry. After 20 minutes, its appearance changed little & thinking- oil cake, chocolate, etc- I waited until 30 min when I should have checked it at 25 min. I had a difficult time trying to check it thru a side crack so just stabbed it in the middle-& it came out too clean. It has a nice crunchy top & it was as easy as a brownie, but I think I’d rather eat a brownie.