Pâté and Bread

If my goal in starting this blog and signing up for the Daring Cooks challenge was to break out of my comfort zone and cook and eat things I never would think to do otherwise, my second Daring Cooks challenge was a huge success! I probably would have gotten around to making enchiladas at some point in my cooking adventures, but pâté? Never. And bread? I was deathly afraid of baking. What a learning opportunity this turned out to be!

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.

I chose to go with the traditional chicken liver pâté. If I'm going to do pâté, I'm going to do pâté. No messing around with safe vegetarian or seafood options (who ever thought I'd consider seafood the safe option??). And the choice between French baguette and sandwich loaf was an easy one for this francophile.

New Camera!

Good news, everyone!


Last night John surprised me with my wedding present a few weeks early, and it was ... the greatest camera in the world :D  A shiny new digital Canon Rebel EOS SLR. My mom had the film version of this camera, and I fell in love with it when she let me take it on a trip to France when I was 16. I got one for myself shortly thereafter, and we had many good years together, especially the semester of college when I took a photography course.