I love his books... his recipes are great.... would recommend this for the ramen noodle and mushroom dish, the roasted chicken dish as well as all of the vegetable dishes... just working my way through the recipes!! My grandkids adored the chicken dish!!!
The recipes in this book are just at another level and you will lean a whole host a little cooking secrets that just take plain food to the next level. The attached picture was my first attempt at making Hummus. Store bought Hummus is just so so ... but this was another world and the little bursts of flavor from the peppers and lemon will keep you eating and eating. Lots of veg/vegan type of recipes, not that I was looking for no meat but it's nice to take a break and digesting steak! and enjoying food with serious flavor.
This man is a genius. Great quality, moderate ease of cooking complex meals. Enjoy the variations.
This was a perfect gift for a friend.
great cookbook not so easy to get the ingredients
Love this cookbook for very different ethnic style of cooking. Interesting combinations of flavors. My favorites are the spatchcock chicken (have made that many times) and the stroganoff meatballs. No pictures available cause I always gobble everything up.
I can't say enough how exciting AND comforting the recipes are in this cookbook. I have now made about 20 recipes from it and, no joke, have yet to have a dud.I will say, I consider this a book for fairly advanced cooks and many of the recipes are quite time consuming and best reserved for the weekend.If I had to quibble I'd say, I find it odd that in instances where the same ingredient is used in different parts of the same recipe the word "divided" isn't used next to the ingredient, which is standard practice.
This was an awesome book! I have made many of the dishes and used it for a monthly Cook book dinner club. I highly recommend it!
We love cooking, love this book and have since bought more.
Great cookbook. Recommend
This is definitely not the best of the Ottolenghi publications. Seems a bit of a hodgepodge of three authors. I think the best are those he wrote with his then business partner, Sami Tamimi. I also think that Sweet with Helen Goh was better as it was dedicated to one subject. I seriously did not find any real sense of structure or focus in Comfort and began to wonder if the Ottolenghi phenomenon has run its course.
Every bloody time I cook something out of here, everyone wants the recipe. And they're not just being nice. They hunt me down and make me give it to them. I think I've sold 5 cookbooks.The tomato soup is a staple in our house. A special needs friend of mine curled her lip when she saw the eggplant, but even knowing it was in the soup, ended up asking for thirds.The leek and za'atar rugelach makes you look like a rock star at pot lucks- especially since it's hard to find interesting finger foods.The one drawback- maybe- is that there are lots of specialty ingredients, but I love making a list and hunting them down when I hit the big city. Makes me feel like I'm completing a side quest.
Once again, this outperformed my expectations!
I’ve made 4 of the recipes and I find them needlessly complicated. “Comfort” for me (and I love to cook) is not spending many hours in prep. Maybe in the UK you can easily source nduja paste, lamb neck, baharat, lime leaves, curry leaf, preserved lemons, but not for me. Having to search recipes and then finally make these ingredients, again, does not fit into my definition of “comfort”. And for almost all the recipes I tried there was not an explosions of flavors that I expected. I’ll still plod my way through the book, but will be wary of the time and energy involved.
I've made half a dozen recipes so far, not a clunker among them. I would repeat any of them - when I finish working my way through the book. While some of the ingredient combinations might seem a little odd, trust the writers. They work! And so far, each recipe seems easy enough to tweak to your own taste and ingredients on hand. One of my favorite Ottolenghi books, and I have almost all of them!
I am learning patience and trust this guide Great descriptions I am inspired
Another Ottolenghi wonderful book!
Great recipes
I love his recipes but will give this to my omnivore friends
First, I have all of Ottolennghi cookbooks. The recipes are always unique, elegant and presented in a way that the home cook can follow. The photos are so beautiful they made my culinary brain dance. Any person interested in cooking would LOVE this book and I’m giving it away as a Holiday gift this year. This may be my favorite cookbook of all times!
