The Daring Bakers’ April 2012 challenge, hosted by Jason at Daily Candor, were two Armenian standards: nazook and nutmeg cake. Nazook is a layered yeasted dough pastry with a sweet filling, and nutmeg cake is a fragrant, nutty coffee-style cake. Jason described the Armenain … [Read more...]
The Daring Cooks’ April 2012 Challenge – Create Your Own Recipe
With our diet plan for January, February, and March, we haven't had a great opportunity to do our Daring Kitchen Challenges this year. We are very excited to get back in the mix and take up the challenge for the rest of the year. Our April 2012 Daring Cooks hosts were David … [Read more...]
The Daring Baker: Quick Bread
The Daring Bakers’ February 2012 host was – Lis! Lisa stepped in last minute and challenged us to create a quick bread we could call our own. She supplied us with a base recipe and shared some recipes she loves from various websites and encouraged us to build upon them and create … [Read more...]
The Daring Cooks Challenge: Char Sui Bao
Our Daring Cooks’ December 2011 hostess is Sara from Belly Rumbles! Sara chose awesome Char Sui Bao as our challenge, where we made the buns, Char Sui, and filling from scratch – delicious! Thanks so much Sara for a great challenge. I've seen these sorts of things on some of … [Read more...]
The Daring Baker: Sans Rival
Catherine of Munchie Musings was our November Daring Bakers’ host and she challenged us to make a traditional Filipino dessert – the delicious Sans Rival cake! And for those of us who wanted to try an additional Filipino dessert, Catherine also gave us a bonus recipe for Bibingka … [Read more...]
The Daring Cooks’ Challenge: Cooking with Tea
Sarah from Simply Cooked was our November Daring Cooks’ hostess and she challenged us to create something truly unique in both taste and technique! We learned how to cook using tea with recipes from Tea Cookbook by Tonia George and The New Tea Book by Sara Perry. I have been … [Read more...]
The Daring Baker: October Challenge – Povitica
The Daring Baker’s October 2011 challenge was Povitica, hosted by Jenni of The Gingered Whisk. Povitica is a traditional Eastern European Dessert Bread that is as lovely to look at as it is to eat! Jenni described Povitica to be like Kalachi. I was able to grasp an idea of … [Read more...]
The Daring Cooks’ Challenge: Moo Shu
The October Daring Cooks' Challenge was hosted by Shelley of C Mom Cook and her sister Ruth of The Crafts of Mommyhood. They challenged us to bring a taste of the East into our home kitchens by making our own Moo Shu, including thin pancakes, stir fry and sauce. I've never had … [Read more...]
The Daring Bakers: September Challenge – Croissants
I am excited to post my first result of monthly challenge at The Daring Bakers! What was this month's challenge? The Daring Bakers go retro this month! Thanks to one of our very talented non-blogging members, Sarah, the Daring Bakers were challenged to make Croissants using a … [Read more...]
The Daring Cooks’ Challenge: Stock to Soup to Consomme
Recently, I signed up with The Daring Kitchen to be a "Daring Cook." Basically, each month our host cook challenges us to recreate one recipe. We all create basically the same thing with a few variations allowed, but we all end up with wildly different results. Peta, of the … [Read more...]