Daring Cooks: August 2010 - Pierogis

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.

The dough was easy to make and roll out. These are filled with potato, onions, and cottage cheese.

Boiling
Then frying
They look great. Exactly the size and appearance I wanted. Something was a little off in the dough though. I need to add more salt next time. Still, I enjoy making them and the freezability of them to store for later.

Daring Cooks: July 2010 - Nut Butter

The July 2010 Daring Cooks’ Challenge was hosted by Margie of More Please and Natashya of Living in the Kitchen with Puppies. They chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make their own nut butter from scratch, and use the nut butter in a recipe. Their sources include Better with Nut Butter by Cooking Light Magazine, Asian Noodles by Nina Simonds, and Food Network online.

Daring Cooks: June 2010 - Pâtés and Bread

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.

Daring Cooks: May 2010 - Enchiladas

Our hosts this month, Barbara of Barbara Bakes and Bunnee of Anna+Foodhave 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.

Daring Cooks: April 2010 - Brunswick Stew

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.

I enjoyed making this stew. It's just how I like them. Full of tasty stuff and not watery at all.

Bowl O' Meat

Browning some pork

Peeling potatoes

I'm a dork but it's great for recipes

Starting to simmer the stew

Tasty! Nice and thick

Daring Cooks: March 2010 - Risotto

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.

Leftovers from the homemade vegetable stock

Lemon basil risotto with goat cheese

Daring Cooks: January 2010 - Satay

The January 2010 DC challenge was hosted by Cuppy ofCuppylicious and she chose a delicious Thai-inspired recipe for Pork Satay from the book 1000 Recipes by Martha Day.

I had to redeem myself after the salmon failure. I was quite happy with how this came out. It tasted great and was quick to do. I'll certainly make this again in the future.