The 2010 April Daring Cooks challenge was hosted by Wolf of Wolf’s Den. She chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make Brunswick Stew. Wolf chose recipes for her challenge from The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook by Matt Lee and Ted Lee, and from the Callaway, Virginia Ruritan Club. She offered two recipes – one a longer more tedious one, and one a simpler one.
I decided to adopt the more tedious one, seeing how I already had some homecooked chicken broth in the freezer. I replaced the rabbit’s meat with pork. The stew was one of the most flavourful I’ve ever tasted. Hubby thought that it was simply bursting [...]
Read More Daring Cooks April Challenge – Brunswick Stew
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 didn’t attempt the gluten free recipe but used wheat flour instead. The graham crackers turned out surprisely nice! Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of them before proceeding to make the bar. The bar was very yummy too. In fact, a colleague who has eaten nanaimo bars from Nanaimo, Canada gives them a 10/10.
The November 2009 Daring Cooks challenge was brought to you by Audax of Audax Artifex and Rose of The Bite Me Kitchen. They chose sushi as the challenge. I kinda waited till the eleventh hour to complete this month’s challenge. With the overseas trips and all, I hardly had time to cook, bake, let alone make sushi. Anyway, I steeled my resolve and managed to complete this in the nick of time. I’m still not happy with my dragon roll though. The avocados were too raw and couldn’t adhere to the rice. Otherwise, everything else was tasty. I would however, add a little more water to the rice during [...]
Read More Daring Cooks Nov Challenge – Sushi
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 [...]
Read More Daring Cooks October Challenge – Vietnamese Chicken Pho
