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Posted in Cakes and tarts, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes, The Daring Kitchen on May 27th, 2010
I won’t lie. We are pretty proud of this! Croquembouche seems like the kind of thing that would be inordinately difficult, but it was surprisingly pretty simple. When we found out that this was the Daring Bakers’ May challenge, we felt a little intimidated. But it all turned out well. There are three fairly easy [...]
Posted in Cakes and tarts, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes, The Daring Kitchen on Mar 27th, 2010
The 2010 March Daring Baker’s challenge was hosted by Jennifer of Chocolate Shavings. She chose Orange Tian as the challenge for this month, a dessert based on a recipe from Alain Ducasse’s Cooking School in Paris. The term ‘tian’ means layered, and the challenge recipe consisted of a layered orange dessert, comprising a pastry base [...]
Posted in Recipe: savoury, Recipes, The Daring Kitchen, Vegetarian meals on Feb 17th, 2010
This lovely tagine formed the substantial part of our vegetarian Mezze. The method for making this tagine is a little unusual – first you make the sauce, then roast/fry the vegetables and combine. Nonetheless, this is seriously tasty and great for a crowd. It also can be made ahead of time – it gets tastier. [...]
Posted in Appetisers & accompaniments, Recipe: savoury, Recipes, The Daring Kitchen on Feb 16th, 2010
As part of our vegetarian Mezze, we decided to make our own falafel. I have actually never made falafel before, but these were so quick, easy and delicious I will definitely be making them again. We had a couple of recipes as a reference point in making these, but didn’t follow any of them too [...]
Posted in Appetisers & accompaniments, Recipe: savoury, Recipes, The Daring Kitchen on Feb 14th, 2010
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 Dugi. A mezze is an Eastern Mediterranean/Middle Eastern spread of small dishes. When we were reading up on what a mezze involves, it became apparent that there are [...]
Posted in Biscuits, slices and muffins, Gluten-free friendly, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes, The Daring Kitchen on Jan 27th, 2010
A new year and the Daring Kitchen has kicked off again. 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. I was pretty enthusiastic about [...]
Posted in Appetisers & accompaniments, Meat, Recipe: savoury, Recipes, The Daring Kitchen, Vegetarian meals on Jan 14th, 2010
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. The January challenge requirement was to marinate the satays - any type of meat or non-meat (tofu) could be used. Cuppy (the host) provided a couple of marinade recipes, however neither of [...]
