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The Daring Baker: Armenian Nutmeg Cake

April 27, 2012 By Beth 12 Comments

The Daring Baker: Armenian Nutmeg Cake

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...]

Filed Under: Daring Kitchen, Simply Food Tagged With: April 2012 Daring Baker Challenge, Armenian Nutmeg Cake, baking, food processor for baking, nutmeg cake, The Daring Baker

The Daring Cooks’ April 2012 Challenge – Create Your Own Recipe

April 15, 2012 By Brian 6 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Daring Kitchen, Simply Food Tagged With: apple, apple parsnip slaw, barbecue, barbecue sandwich, bbq, bbq sandwich, beef, beef barbecue, beef bbq, chipotle, chipotle barbecue sauce, chipotle bbq sauce, chipotle sauce, coffee rub, cooking, daring cook, daring kitchen, food, parsnip, recipe, The Daring Cooks' April 2012 Challenge - Create Your Own Recipe

The Daring Baker: Quick Bread

February 26, 2012 By Beth 7 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Daring Kitchen, Recipes, Simply Food Tagged With: baking, chocolate chip banana muffins, cooking, The Daring Baker, The Daring Baker: Quick Bread

The Daring Cooks Challenge: Char Sui Bao

December 14, 2011 By Brian 19 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Daring Kitchen, Simply Food Tagged With: Cantonese, Cantonese BBQ pork, Cantonese BBQ pork buns, challenge, char sui, char sui bao, cooking, daring cook, daring kitchen, dinner, pork, pork barbecue, pork bbq, pork buns

The Daring Baker: Sans Rival

November 27, 2011 By Beth 5 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Daring Kitchen, Simply Food Tagged With: baking, cooking, french buttercream, Sans Rival, sponge cake, The Daring Baker, The Daring Baker: November Challenge - Sans Rival

The Daring Cooks’ Challenge: Cooking with Tea

November 14, 2011 By Brian 14 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Daring Kitchen, Simply Food Tagged With: brine, challenge, chicken, cooking, daring cooks, dinner, recipe, roasting, sweet tea, sweet tea brine, tea, tea brine, Thanksgiving, turkey

The Daring Baker: October Challenge – Povitica

October 27, 2011 By Beth 6 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Daring Kitchen, Simply Food Tagged With: Eastern European Dessert Bread, Kalachi, October Challenge, Povitica, The Daring Baker, The Daring Baker: October Challenge - Povitica

The Daring Cooks’ Challenge: Moo Shu

October 14, 2011 By Brian 3 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Daring Kitchen, Recipes, Simply Food Tagged With: challenge, chinese, daring kitchen, hoisin, hoisin sauce, moo shu, moo shu pork, oriental, pancake, pork, thin pancake

The Daring Bakers: September Challenge – Croissants

September 27, 2011 By Beth 7 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Daring Kitchen, Simply Food Tagged With: chocolate croissants, Croissants, Juilia Child's croissants, pictures, September Challenge, The Daring Bakers

The Daring Cooks’ Challenge: Stock to Soup to Consomme

September 14, 2011 By Brian 13 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Daring Kitchen, Recipes, Simply Food Tagged With: chowder, corn, corn chowder, daring cook, daring kitchen, meatless, soup, stock, vegetarian

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