Last Week

So our brilliant idea for this blog came to us while making dinner for some friends this past week. We made empanadas (a la Bobby Flay) and an apple danish (featured on my favorite food blog, Annies-Eats, recipe from Bakers Illustrated).

They were both PHENOMENAL! Best things we have ever made. I'm craving the empanadas now as I type. It was actually a bad day in the kitchen for both of us though... Shari touched her eye after dicing extra spicy peppers and I burned my finger not once, but twice!! We had to soak Shari's eye in a bowl of milk to stop the pain! It was totally worth it though!!

The recipes can be found at the links below:

Spiced Apple Cream Cheese Danish

Beef and Goat Cheese Empanadas

For the empanadas we improvised on the peppers. We couldn't find most of the peppers Bobby Flay used so we chose Jalapenos and a Habanero (no seeds) for the filling and for the sauce we substituted roasted red peppers for the piquillo peppers. Also for the empanadas, the dough recipe didn't create enough dough to make 8 empanadas. We recommend doubling it.

The Danish recipe was perfect and overall, the dishes were a raving success!!