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Re: Recipe Book Tweaking and Reviews!
« Reply #60 on: March 18, 2009, 11:01:52 pm »
Hey I had a look at the download, it's only the Index pages of what recipes there are, not actual recipes. Is that what you meant? Or am I looking in the wrong place?

That is it - just the contents page - you get some idea of what is in the books, but no full recipes  :(
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Re: Recipe Book Tweaking and Reviews!
« Reply #61 on: March 19, 2009, 06:22:40 pm »
Agree that it is going to take time, but wonder why consultants wouldn't recommend it to their clients and prospects.  It is in their interest I would think??

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Re: Recipe Book Tweaking and Reviews!
« Reply #62 on: March 19, 2009, 10:51:42 pm »
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Re: Recipe Book Tweaking and Reviews!
« Reply #63 on: March 20, 2009, 07:22:54 am »
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Re: Recipe Book Tweaking and Reviews!
« Reply #64 on: March 20, 2009, 07:49:07 am »
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Re: Torta Caprese (Flourless Almond Cake) Review
« Reply #65 on: April 04, 2009, 06:57:00 am »
Hi All,
This cake is so delicious.  A word of warning - I'd use 5 teaspoons of baking powder instead of the recommended 20 grams as I found it hard to measure the powder accurately.  The cake mixture will also double in size (at least!) when baking, so be sure to use a large cake tin.  The bundt cake tin was far too small and I ended up with a cake volcano in the oven!  Because the cake is gluten free, it will sink when you take it out of the oven too.

Tweaking - Not much apart from the baking powder thing.  It wouldn't hurt to mill the almonds for 10 seconds longer if you like a finer texture.
Taste 5/5

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Re: Recipe Book Tweaking and Reviews!
« Reply #66 on: April 06, 2009, 01:40:15 am »
 :o :o :o :o That's a lot of baking powder.  It may be that a couple of teaspoons would be enough??  Less likely to have the Mt Vesuvius effect and more like a gentle Isle of Capri feel.

LOL - one recipe that I saw had a definite misprint with something like 1 cup of baking powder instead of 1 teaspoon - now that is toooooooo much.
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Re: Torta Caprese (Flourless Almond Cake) Review
« Reply #67 on: April 06, 2009, 05:37:49 am »
Hi All,
This cake is so delicious.  A word of warning - I'd use 5 teaspoons of baking powder instead of the recommended 20 grams as I found it hard to measure the powder accurately.  The cake mixture will also double in size (at least!) when baking, so be sure to use a large cake tin.  The bundt cake tin was far too small and I ended up with a cake volcano in the oven!  Because the cake is gluten free, it will sink when you take it out of the oven too.

Tweaking - Not much apart from the baking powder thing.  It wouldn't hurt to mill the almonds for 10 seconds longer if you like a finer texture.
Taste 5/5

Cheers,
K3

I have made this recipe a couple of times and I'm sure that I don't use that much baking powder.  I would think that 1-2 should be enough.  It is not meant to rise too much, anyway, because it is flourless.
I haven't made it in a while, but I think that I reduced the cooking time too, but cannot swear to that. ???
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Re: Recipe Book Tweaking and Reviews!
« Reply #68 on: April 10, 2009, 09:50:39 am »
I made the Butter Chicken from the Everyday book tonight and it was just wonderful. Big thumbs up. :)
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Re: Recipe Book Tweaking and Reviews!
« Reply #69 on: April 13, 2009, 07:54:21 am »
I made the Tomato soup from the Everyday cookbook last night. It was nice,but!
Next time I think I will leave out the lentils. I usually like lentils in soup but this time they didn't seem right.  I realise they were there to thicken the soup.
I also added a little bit of milk when I served it to just dilute the tomato taste a little. I also added basil when I was making it and left out the tomato concentrate.
I will make it again but will try leaving the lentils out.
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Re: Recipe Book Tweaking and Reviews!
« Reply #70 on: April 13, 2009, 01:06:39 pm »
I made the Caramelized Apple Risotto Pudding for dinner tonight.(from the Vegetarian book) I only made half the quantity as there are only 3 of us. The flavour is really lovely and appley. I used unsweetened apple juice and reduced the quantity of sugar by about 2/3. It is still quite sweet so next time I'll reduce the sugar by even more. I didn't do the caramel topping, only because I was trying to keep our sugar down.
The apples need to be cut into fairly small pieces or alternatively blitzed a tiny bit in the thermomix.

It is a really lovely dessert, we had ours with a little of the left over mascarpone.

I'd like to try it with plums before they go out of season.
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Re: Recipe Book Tweaking and Reviews!
« Reply #71 on: April 14, 2009, 01:13:52 am »

Next time I think I will leave out the lentils. I usually like lentils in soup but this time they didn't seem right.  I realise they were there to thicken the soup.

I will make it again but will try leaving the lentils out.

Did you mill the lentils first - they should be just about powder and just a thickener.  Try the tapioca -as you say it is just a thickener.
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Re: Recipe Book Tweaking and Reviews!
« Reply #72 on: April 14, 2009, 01:15:43 am »

I made the Caramelized Apple Risotto Pudding for dinner tonight.(from the Vegetarian book)


Have to check it out - I love green apple risotto with blood pudding - sorry to introduce that into a dessert stream, but it is a good combination.  ;) ;) ;) ;D ;D
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Re: Recipe Book Tweaking and Reviews!
« Reply #73 on: April 14, 2009, 07:38:28 am »
oooooh! I can't stand blood pudding by itself! :P :P :P bleck!
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Re: Recipe Book Tweaking and Reviews!
« Reply #74 on: April 14, 2009, 08:14:02 am »
Sorry, just the thought of blood pudding..................

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