The February 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen and Deeba of Passionate About Baking. They chose Tiramisu as the challenge for the month. Their challenge recipe is based on recipes from The Washington Post, Cordon Bleu at Home and Baking Obsession. Tiramisu is one of my favourite desserts, and one that [...]
After taking a couple of months break from the Daring Bakers (due to work commitments & having a domain change) I am glad to say I’m back in the group of participants; and what a lovely challenge I returned too. The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren chose Gluten-Free [...]
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. Cupcakes may seem to be the flavour of the moment but us foodies are always on the hunt for the next best thing, we are [...]
Somehow World Bread Baking Day escaped my event planning this year and as such I’ve rushed to create something for it. It is too good an event to miss out completely. So I have compiled a photo gallery (just click the links to go to the appropriate blog post) of some of my most recent [...]
Don’t get me wrong I love a challenge, and sure, isn’t that why I joined the Daring Bakers? This months challenge though nearly tipped my challenge enjoyment level over the edge, it wasn’t difficult as such but just such a palaver. I spread the challenge over two days (very unlike me) to try and give [...]
The July Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Nicole at Sweet Tooth. She chose Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies and Milan Cookies from pastry chef Gale Gand of the Food Network. For the first time ever I’m late posting my Daring Bakers entry (sorry folks)! We had the option to make either the Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies or the Milan Cookies, or [...]
The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny Bakes. She has chosen Abbey’s Infamous Cheesecake as the challenge. April Challenge? Well it can mean only one thing, Daring Bakers time again! What a lovely challenge we had: Cheesecake! The difference here was that we had free reign, given a basic recipe for a [...]
For the non Italian readers on this blog, the title means “What are we having with the bread?” A lovely expression which shows just how much the Italians value their bread. Maybe it’s a tourist or restaurant thing, or maybe I’m just an old romantic but I envisage a basket full of bread on the [...]
Frugal food seems to be making something of a come back at the moment, whether that is down to our current economic downturn or because of the increased number of celebrity chefs using unusual (and often) cheaper cuts of meat, etc. I’m not sure; most likely it is a combination of the two things. Over on Violet’s [...]
Here we are at the Daring Bakers time again, yippee! The February 2009 challenge is hosted by Wendy of WMPE’s blog and Dharm of Dad ~ Baker & Chef. We have chosen a Chocolate Valentino cake by Chef Wan; a Vanilla Ice Cream recipe from Dharm and a Vanilla Ice Cream recipe from Wendy as the [...]
Your branches are a pomegranate orchard with all precious fruits, henna and roses saffron and spikenard, cassia, cinnamon with frankincense trees, myrrh and aloes all perfect spices … Eat, my friend, drink – lover be drunk with love (The Song of Songs) It’s time again for the Daring Bakers challenge. This month’s challenge is brought to [...]
