I think I mentioned this before, but my one weakness as a cook is that I’m slow with prepwork, especially in the knife skills department. So in late May/early June, I asked my friends for suggestions for what to make to practice my knife skills.
Ingredient Challenge Dinner Party Two
Saturday, May 7, 2016 – I’ve already told you the story of the ingredient challenges, so I won’t go into that again. Today, I had my second dinner party with the dishes from the ingredient challenges.
Today’s menu was
And for dessert, blood orange sorbet. (This wasn’t an ingredient challenge, but it was thematic with the rest of the dinner.)
Ingredient Challenge Dinner Party!
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
- bacon cheddar garlic mashed potatoes (by request)
- roasted butternut squash and green beans wrapped in chard
- sausage wrapped in bacon wrapped in steak
- chocolate nut rosewater honey cinnamon pastries
Ingredient Challenge #4: Roasted Veggies with Veloute Sauce
Saturday, October 24, 2015 – Another ingredient challenge. My friend Crystal picked beets, parsnips, fennel, chicken stock, and onion. The chicken stock was an interesting one. Now, I could make soup, but that would be too obvious. So instead, I made a sauce, roasted the veggies, and topped them with the sauce.
Ingredient Challenge #2: Roasted Pumpkin
Sunday, October 11, 2015 – Last week, the challenge was full of meat. It’s only fitting that this week’s challenge is entirely vegetarian.
My friend Fenella chose chard, pumpkin, green beans, parsley,and tomato. And she’s a vegetarian, so the subtext was the dish had to be vegetarian. And a salad was too obvious, so not a salad.