Daring Bakers: Panna Cotta and Florentine Cookies

I want to start off by stating I hate milk.  I do not like the smell let alone the taste.  This is most likely why I was not huge on the taste of half of this challenge.  It did however look beautiful.  I think with some tweaking it could be something I would really enjoy.  I also wanted to try making a fruit gelee which this challenge forced me to do.   The cookies were pretty decent and very simple to make.  It also makes me want to start working with Agar-agar.  I still drool over these pictures and am going to have to make some interesting creations of my own.

Blueberry-Lemon Chiffon Tart

This was wonderful and I was finally able to try out my Tartine cookbook!  Tonight I did my daring cooks challenge and was feeling creative so I decided to make dessert as well.  I think this might just be my new favorite dessert cookbook!

Daring Cooks: Soba Noodles and Tempura

This is my first Daring Cooks Challenge!  This month the challenge was to create some form of a cold noodle salad and tempura.  Buckwheat noodles were preferred.  I took my best stab at making them and will have to revisit them again sometime.  I switched to rice noodles because it had that same simple fresh taste to compliment the tempura.

The finished meal! Green bean, crab and sweet potato tempura and rice noodles with Mentsuyu (traditional dipping sauce)

more after the jump!

You have invaded my heart!

This valentines day I got blueberry pancakes in bed and dark and milk chocolate covered strawberries.  This meant that I had to step up my game since so far all I had was a crocheted Bombomb. 

So I made Space Invader chocolates! 

more pictures after the jump!

Tangerine Lemon Curd

Tony is sick and I am banished to the living room.  This means I ended up cooking and hanging out spending some time next to Jackson (our rabbit) who has started to snore.

The recipe was taken from here.  So far her recipes have been easy and work well.  Curd is something that sounds gross but her pictures looked nice and I figured I should explore out of my comfort zone.  It was also incredibly easy.

Turkey Bacon Waffles / Apple Pie Alcoholic Drinks

I saw the waffle recipe here and thought it would be something worth trying.   Especially after a night of drinking and Rockband at the house.  The drink was my own concoction this time which is surprising since I rarely drink.  The recipe for both after the jump!

"Holy Uncle Buck!" Roommates response to waking up to these

and now for the filling...

I made the first batch of ganache that was white chocolate vanilla and hated it.... so it is now down the drain and inside the vanilla macarons are dark chocolate ganache and freeze dried bananas.  It also gave me an excuse to use my edible ink pens.