The pokemon crochet journey!

For March’s Daring Cooks’ Challenge, Ruth, Shelley and Sawsan asked us to totally veg out! We made salads and dressings, letting the sky be the limit as we created new flavors and combinations that reflect our own unique tastes. I'm completely late with posting this one! But I thought I would still throw it up since I did actually do the challenge. For this one, I decided to go with a caesar dressing. After making it, I thought of a few tweaks I might add for next time! I followed the recipe that I found here Ingredients 100g sourdough baguette, cut into 1cm cubes. 3 rashers of bacon, cut up 1/2 cos lettuce 50g shaved cheeses Dressing 1 egg yolk 1 tsp dijon mustard 1 large garlic clove (next time I do this, I'm going to cook the garlic to get the sweetness instead) 2 anchovies, chopped 1 tbsp white wine vinegar 1/4 and 2tbs olive oil This is really really easy to make. After this, you will never buy dressing again because you can throw it together with wh...

So....onto my first challenge for the cooks side of things this year! The February Daring Cooks' Challenge was hosted by Audax of Audax Artifex. The challenge brought us to Greece with a delicious, flaky spanakopita - a spinach pie in a phyllo pastry shell. So I used mainly Paul Hollywood 's recipes and made a few changes of my own to see if I could make it better! And I wanted to make my phyllo pastry from scratch as that was one of the challenges I had wanted to take up on this kind of bake. I would do it again, actually. Making this pastry from scratch was quite a lot of fun, despite there also being a lot of chances to just buy sheets of this pastry from the shops. So obviously the first thing I set about doing was starting up the pastry. Ingredients Pastry 200g strong white flour 100-120ml warm water 1 tbsp olive oil pinch salt cornflour, for dusting 90g butter, melted 1 egg yolk, for glaze Filling 900g english spinach, washed and cut up salt and peppe...