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 My 2 bread makers got a workout yesterday. They cranked out a total of 4 batches of sweet dough for cinnamon rolls and 2 batches of dough for pretzels. Hot Pepper Pretzels are the best of the two. Planning to serve them with Hot Pepper Butter read that as mustard…kind of a sweet and spicy mustard. The second . . . → Read More: Cinnamon Rolls & Pretzels… The August 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Elissa of 17 and Baking. For the first time, The Daring Bakers partnered with Sugar High Fridays for a co-event and Elissa was the gracious hostess of both. Using the theme of beurre noisette, or browned butter, Elissa chose to challenge Daring Bakers to make a pound . . . → Read More: AUGUST 2010 DARING BAKERS CHALLENGE ~ Nutty and toasty meets cool and creamy… The August 2010 Daring Cooks’ Challenge was hosted by LizG of Bits n’ Bites and Anula of Anula’s Kitchen. They chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make pierogi from scratch and an optional challenge to provide one filling that best represents their locale. I made three different Pierogi fillings using the same dough. I chose a Mennonite . . . → Read More: The Daring Cooks August, 2010 Challenge: The World of Pierogi Gee whiz…I cannot believe I didn’t tell y’all about this!!!! So, I made these strawberry tarts and it has mascarpone cheese, strawberries (of course), sugar and balsamic vinegar (of course…) and SUGAR….and the tart is made from PIZZA DOUGH!!! It’s from Claire Robinson of 5 Ingredient Fix on Foodnetwork. Here’s the easy recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/claire-robinson/mini-strawberry-mascarpone-tarts-recipe/index.html . . . → Read More: Strawberry Tarts with Balsamic Vinegar Reduction…YUMMMMMM-O!!!!!!! July has been such a busy month – and way too hot to turn the oven on (in my opinion at least). I missed doing the Daring Baker AND Cooks Challenges in July and I may make them up because I have the ingredients needed to make them. Right now I need to make a “Choo . . . → Read More: Busy Summer! “Men, chocolate, and coffee are all better rich”…so the saying goes. And this month’s challenge has created the very first time in my life that I’ve proclaimed TOO much chocolate. It is so out of character for me to feel this way but the chocolate is so rich in this dessert – I’m actually surprised. Death . . . → Read More: JUNE 2010 – Daring Baker’s Challenge: Chocolate Pavlovas with Chocolate Mascarpone Mousse
This was really good and could very well pose as a comfort food.
One Sunday morning, recently…I decided to put lunch in the crockpot for after church. I decided to make a Mexican dish and loosely followed a Rival recipe to make a Mexican Tortilla Stack in the crockpot. It was very good and . . . → Read More: Crockpot Mexican Tortilla Stack Our hostesses this month, Evelyne of Cheap Ethnic Eatz, and Valerie of a The Chocolate Bunny, chose delicious pate with freshly baked bread as their June Daring Cook’s challenge! They’ve provided us with 4 different pate recipes to choose from and are allowing us to go wild with our homemade bread choice. I have to admit that . . . → Read More: The Daring Cook’s Challenge June 2010 A few weeks ago I talked about Saving Dinner and Leanne Ely – it was the day we made Lemon Caper Chicken from her recipe of chicken three ways. Garlic Lime Chicken is my favorite! So, she is having a give-away of a Kitchen-Aid. Check out her details here: www.savingdinner.com but don’t delay – as soon as they get . . . → Read More: A Chance to Win a Kitchen-Aid German Puff Pancakes, German Oven Pancakes – whatever you want to call them…they are good! It had been awhile since I made these and decided it would be something my 2 year-old might enjoy…nevermind that he slept through the whole process and ended up thinking the traditional brown parts were burnt. Speaking from my point of . . . → Read More: Big, Fat, Puffy Breakfast! |
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