cookingbites wildcard challenge

Serves: 2 Ingredients: 25 g butter 1 medium onion, finely sliced 75 ml white wine or apple juice 200 g swede, peeled and finely sliced 1 sweet apple, cored and finely sliced Handful of dried fruit (I used sultanas) Plain yoghurt, cream, or custard to serve Method: Preheat your oven to...

Ingredients a large whole Bramley apple a sweet onion 1tbsp sultanas 1 oz Demerara sugar 1tsp ground cinamon 1 oz butter 4 fl oz apple juice or water Method Finally chop the onion and fry gently in most of the butter until soft. Mix with the sugar, sultanas and cinamon. Rinse and dry the...

I candied a lot of sweet onions for the Onion Desert Challenge. Another offering tomorrow. I had a random thought to make a sweet onion desert Dim Sum. I only made the three so the recipe is haphazard. For Candied Onions see tomorrow's submission for Sweet Onion Bread 3 TBSP. Candied...

So the challenge to make a sweet dish from onions got me thinking. First I was going to make an apple and onion bread pudding as bread puddings can be sweet or savoury, but I wanted to be more creative. My mum used to make strawberry shortcake so I thought I would try this: Shortbread to BBC...

Not your average trifle! Ingredients For the mash potatoes 1.5kg (3lb) white potatoes, peeled and cut into large chunks 30g (1oz) salted butter, diced 200ml (1/3 pint) whole milk, warmed For the mince layer 1 tbsp olive oil 1 onion, chopped 1 celery stick, chopped 1 garlic clove, crushed 1 tbsp...

Onion Custards Ingredients 2 tbsp. butter 2 c. finely chopped yellow onions 1/4 tsp. herbes de Provence 1/2 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. Freshly ground pepper 4 egg yolks 1 1/2 c. half-and-half Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. In a medium skillet, melt butter. Add yellow onions and cook until soft and...

The Wild card Challenge is a new addition to CookingBites. The concept is simple and non-competitive. No deadline is set. But when things peter out, a new topic is set. Its all about wild and wacky ideas and/or thinking out of the box. And who better to host the challenge than our very own @The...