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I joined this online group called “Daring Cooks” at The Daring Kitchen which presents a monthly challenge to cook certain dishes picked by a different group members each month. I don’t mean they are “different”. On second thought, maybe they are – most of us who blog are a little “different”. I meant they vary who sets the challenges. Our hostesses this month, Evelyne of Cheap Ethnic Eatz, and Valerie of a The Chocolate Bunny, chose delicious pate with freshly baked bread as their June Daring Cook’s challenge! They’ve provided us with 4 different pate recipes to choose from and are allowing us to go wild with our homemade bread choice. Anyhoo, I am to fix the dishes and present the story about the challenge by posting the results on my blog. They also have a Daring Bakers, but I lay no claim to being a baker of anything. Well, maybe some brownies (back in the 70s) and I’ve made a couple of feeble attempts at bread earlier in the year – as my good friends, The New Year’s Eve Gang, knows all too well. *read – ridiculously bad-yucky cinnamon rolls* I was absolutely petrified, mortified, and totally paralyzed when I read my first challenge: Pate’ with BREAD! OMWord! After putting a bag over my head to calm down, a little “self-talk” was in order. Voices: “You joined the “Challenge” for a reason – to challenge yourself to create and make things you might normally go running and screaming from.” Me: “What in the Sam Hill was I thinking! I’m out.” Voices: “Not so fast. You’ll feel better about yourself if you will just do it!” Me: ” . . . *sigh* . . .” The pate’ didn’t bother me so much. In fact, I have tasted pate’ on two separate occasions. One was the best stuff ever and the second go ’round was not so great. Disappointing, actually, since my first experience was excellent. Since that time, I have always wanted to give pate’ another chance. Kinda like peace. My Mountain Man was not so sure. ME: “Hey, hon. Have you ever tasted pate’?” MM: . . . *nose twisted grotesquely to the left and mouth all scrunched up* . . . “Yes, and I don’t really ever want to taste it again.” Wooohoooo! Exactly what I was hoping for. Why? Well, he was now the REAL challenge. I […]

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