Daring Cooks: the Poached Egg

Ah the so simple looking poached egg. Yet it is a feared cooking method by many chefs. As our hosts said “Poaching an egg is not very difficult technique-wise, it really is all about the timing.” Absolutely right, the theory is simple, the execution…another story. I tried poaching an egg a long time ago and [...]

Daring Bakers: Crostata

I have been in pie eating mode lately but none were baked by me, actually from the store, because I did not have a kitchen for 2 weeks. But good news the kitchen is done and I’ll post about that experience soon! I had just bought also about a month ago a tart pan with [...]

Daring Cooks: The Construction of a Soufflé

Dave and Linda from Monkeyshines in the Kitchen chose Soufflés as our November 2010 Daring Cooks’ Challenge! Dave and Linda provided two of their own delicious recipes plus a sinfully decadent chocolate soufflé recipe adapted from Gordon Ramsay’s recipe found at the BBC Good Food website.

Now I came very close to bailing out of [...]

DB: Time to make the Donuts

Boy what a challenge this was. Not that is was hard to make but I cannot remember the last time I was so excited about a Daring Baker’s challenge. I have been wanting to make doughnuts for a while so this was awesome. I actually also disregarded (again) the rules and used a recipe I [...]

Daring Cooks: Stuffed Grape leaves

Our October 2010 hostess, Lori of Lori’s Lipsmacking Goodness, has challenged The Daring Cooks to stuff grape leaves. Lori chose a recipe from Aromas of Aleppo and a recipe from The New Book of Middle Eastern Food.

Stuffed grape leaves are a part of many cultures including the Syrians, the Turks, the Greeks, the Lebanese, [...]

Daring Bakers: Sugar Cookies

Voting starts today 6am PST for Project Food Blog. Please cast you vote for me to be the next food blog star! Just click this link to my 2nd challenge. Thank you! Voting end Sept 30rd 6pm PST, hurry!

I was kind of really surprised when I saw this month’s challenge. It felt [...]

Preserve as I Say, not as I Do

The September 2010 Daring Cooks’ challenge was hosted by John from Eat4Fun. John chose to challenge The Daring Cooks to learn about food preservation, mainly in the form of canning and freezing. He challenged everyone to make a recipe and preserve it. John’s source for food preservation information was from The National Center for Home [...]

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