Daring Cooks Challenge: Braised Short Ribs with Grits

This challenge was a lot of fun and yielded wonderfully delicious results.  I used the hostesses (Carol) recipe for Red Wine-Braised Short Ribs.  I only made a few very small adjustments to the original recipe and chose give it a southern twist an serve it over grits instead of mashed potatoes, noodles, or polenta.  Here is her recipe with my adjustments added in.


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Daring Cooks' Challenge: Patties

I am trying to loose weight, so I opted for baked patties.  My original recipes also lean towards the highly caloric, so for this challenge a started looking through the low calorie blogs I frequent to find a suitable recipe and wound up with this recipe for crab cakes from Skinny Taste.  They were delicious and easy to make.  I doubled the recipe because I knew my husband and son would want more than one crab cake.  Using a half cup measure, I only got six patties/cakes instead of eight though, so if you are doing Weight Watchers, you might to adjust the points value depending on how many you get.

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Tamales - Daring Cooks' Challenge

I love tamales, but I've never made them, so I was really excited about the challenge this month!  They really were not difficult to make at all, though they were a bit time consuming.  I made the Green Chile Chicken without any variation (well, except having to use canned tomatillos and parchment because our rural grocery store didn't have fresh tomatillos or corn husks) because I had never made tamales before, but now I can see tons of possible variations.

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