And when you sign up to become a member you get to do a kitchen challenge (whether baking or cooking) each month. Every person then gets to do a post on it. So this one is mine.
The challenge for May was 'Stacked Green Chile and Grilled Chicken Enchiladas'. I have no idea if I'm supposed to post the recipe or not, but you can go to their website to find it yourself.
So here's a picture of the outcome.
How it went:
First of all, I needed tomatillos. Tomatillos do not grow up here until late summer and I tried growing my own last summer but the frost killed them. I was told by Farm Boy that I had to wait another month. So I substituted yellow tomatoes. Because they looked good and had that nice squishy feel to them. The recipe also asked for Andile Chiles. I have no idea what those are, nor could I find them. So I bought jalapeno. That was mistake number one. I did manage to get rockstar hubby to burn and blister them on the bbq alongside the chicken (I bought thighs instead of breast because they were on sale and I'm on a budget). I also bought 'Food for Life's' corn tortillas, instead of making my own. I cooked the sauce, (it took two servings of the cornstarch to thicken) and then popped it in the oven. I could not find the oven temperature on the recipe for the life of me, so I figured it must be 350F. Mistake number two. I found it later when I reserched the recipe from Fine Cooking and found it was supposed to be 450F, but my oven is hot so I put it at 400F.
Results: it smelled good. Taste? Not so much. I found it bland with jalapenos. I think maybe the tomatillos would have tasted better as well as whatever those chiles were. Bummer. It sure looked good. Guess I'm not a genius in the kitchen after all....
5 comments:
I'm sorry this challenge didn't work out for you. Tomatoes will definitely taste different from tomatillos and jalapenos are quite different from Anaheim peppers. I hope you will try again with one of the other sauces or the original recipe with either Anaheim or Poblano chiles.
There is a section in the Daring Cooks forum on how to post pictures on Daring Cooks and Daring Bakers. You might want to check that out. Posting something on Daring Cooks is optional, but it is a way to share what you did.
One more thing - to get credit for doing the challenge, you need to post the blog-checking lines on your blog. The correct language is in the original challenge and is identified.
pfft you are so a kitchen genius. I've eaten the results several times.
I do plan to try that one when I can get my hands on some tomatillos - I'll let you know how it goes. I wonder, could we get a feel for the taste if we used prepared salsa verde? Cheating cause we didn't make it but maybe the right flavor.
Welcome and hello to the Daring Kitchen and congrats on your first challenge. Sorry to hear that the recipe wasn't up to scratch but you can't like them all I think using yellow tomatoes was the culprit you need green tomatoes that is not sweet maybe the yellow tomatoes were to sweet. Lovely photo also. Cheers from Audax in Sydney Australia.
Sorry yours was bland, maybe try it again in the summer with tomatillos and Anaheim peppers. Thanks for cooking with us this month. Have fun in Paris!
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