Don't Sweat the Aubergine
If you want to learn how to improvise while cooking, this book is for you.
Don't Sweat The Aubergine by Nicholas Clee
If you are a cooking enthusiast who likes recipe books filled with colourful photos, this one will leave you cold.
But if you want explanations for why some cooking methods work better than others, this might be what you need. Clee offers templates for basic and popular dishes with various adaptations and "why you do it" sections.
He teaches how to improvise with ingredients, so even the most timid cook will realise that food creation is far from an exact science. There are chapters on topics like sauces, equipment, soups, eggs, vegetables, meat and puddings.
Clee has few actual recipes, but what he does offer is sound methodology and wry humour about what can go wrong and how to prevent this. This cookbook will increase
your repertoire with methods so simple you will learn them by heart.
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- Fairlady