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Daring Cooks May: The Whole Enchilada!

Filed in cooking,Daring Cooks, May 14, 2010, 12:12 am by

Our hosts this month, Barbara of Barbara Bakes and Bunnee of Anna+Food have chosen a delicious Stacked Green Chile & Grilled Chicken Enchilada recipe in celebration of Cinco de Mayo! The recipe, featuring a homemade enchilada sauce was found on www.finecooking.com and written by Robb Walsh. Things have been really busy in our household this [...]

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Daring Cooks April – Brunswick Stew

Filed in cooking,Daring Cooks, April 14, 2010, 9:03 am by

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. What is Brunswick Stew? Well, it’s a [...]

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Vegan, gluten-free waffles!

Filed in cooking, April 11, 2010, 9:28 pm by ,

It’s been about 9 months since I went gluten-free and almost vegan. In that time, I’ve attempted quite a few waffle recipes, but none of them ever quite worked out. The batter always stuck to the waffle iron too much. I always had it well greased before each waffle was to be made, and I [...]

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Daring Cooks March: Risotto!

Filed in cooking,Daring Cooks, March 14, 2010, 1:08 am by ,

The 2010 March Daring Cooks challenge was hosted by Eleanor of MelbournefoodGeek and Jess of Jessthebaker. They chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make risotto. The various components of their challenge recipe are based on input from the Australian Masterchef cookbook and the cookbook Moorish by Greg Malouf. Risotto, huh? Risotto was actually the very [...]

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Vegan Pad Thai

Filed in cooking,February Vegan Challenge, February 24, 2010, 11:41 pm by ,

Tonight while finishing up for the day at work I was pondering what to have for dinner. At first I thought I’d just throw together a simple stirfry, since I already had some ingredients for one in our refrigerator. But then I got a sudden craving for pad thai, so printed off my favourite vegan [...]