Daring Cooks
Daring Cooks – February 2010 – Mezze
The 2010 February Daring Cooks challenge was hosted by Michele of Veggie Num Nums. Michele chose to challenge everyone to make mezze based on various recipes from Claudia Roden, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Dugid.
I really loved this challenge. I’d never made pita before and there were so many different ways you could take the meal. [...]
Daring Bakers – January 2010 – Nanaimo Bars
The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren chose Gluten-Free Graham Wafers and Nanaimo Bars as the challenge for the month. The sources she based her recipe on are 101 Cookbooks and www.nanaimo.ca.
OM NOM NOM NOM NOM. Let’s just get that straight out of the way. These things [...]
Daring Cooks – January 2010 – Satay
The January 2010 DC challenge was hosted by Cuppy of Cuppylicious and she chose a delicious Thai-inspired recipe for Pork Satay from the book 1000 Recipes by Martha Day.
I really like Satay so I was excited by this challenge. I used Lamb instead of Pork, just because I felt like lamb that night!
I made [...]
Daring Cooks – December 2009 – Beef Wellington
The 2009 Daring Cooks challenge was hosted by Simone of Junglefrog Cooking. Simone chose Salmon en Croute (or alternative recipes for Beef Wellington or Vegetable en Croute) from Good Food Online.
This was my first challenge ever and it went… ok.
I chose the Beef Wellington as my partner doesn’t really like salmon and I don’t normally [...]