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Ingredient Challenge Dinner Party!

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Saturday, February 27, 2016 – So when I first started doing ingredient challenges, the rule was that the people who issued the challenges had to eat whatever I cooked for them. (This was to prevent people from choosing the most ridiculous ingredients and make sure they picked things that people would actually eat.) That and, whatever I came up with, I wanted to share with my friends. So naturally, it’s dinner party time!

Today’s menu was

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Ingredient Challenge #5, Take Two: Rose Water Croissants

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Saturday, January 9, 2016 – So if you’ve been following along at home, you’ll remember I was really unhappy with the previous version of this challenge. Long story short, the 3-layer parfait got all mushy and turned into a 1-layer soggy parfait. Not good.

And I said I still wouldn’t be making baklava, but rather rolling stuff up into puff pastry and calling it a croissant variant. And that’s exactly what I did. The challenge was chocolate, nuts, rose water, honey, and cinnamon. The chocolate and nuts is rolled up in the puff pastry. The pastry is baked and soaked in rose water, glazed with honey, and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar.

And it was good.

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