The 2009 October Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to us by Ami S. She chose macarons from Claudia Fleming’s The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern as the challenge recipe.
I have always enjoyed making macaroons, though they don’t always turn out well because of the lovely humid weather in Singapore. I realised, through a couple of tries, that the Italian Meringue method of making macaroons seem to yield more consistent results. The problem with those are that there is sometimes an air pocket between the base and the shell.
Anyway, since this challenge involved the French meringue method, I decided to give it a shot, yet [...]
Read More Daring Bakers October Challenge – Macaroons
The October 2009 Daring Cooks’ challenge was brought to us by Jaden of the blog Steamy Kitchen. The recipes are from her new cookbook, The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook.
I made this last Saturday for lunch, to fulfill the Daring Cooks October Challenge. This is my first challenge, and so I was quite excited about it! I had most of the spices, and thankfully, it’s really quite easy to find them in this part of the world. I had some trouble finding the rice noodles though, for some weird reason.
I decided to try the longer version of the recipe, which can be found here. Hubby helped with [...]
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