Thursday, January 14, 2010

Daring Cooks Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce and Awards

 ChickenSatay

The January 2010 DC challenge was hosted by Cuppy of Cuppylicious and she chose a delicious Thai-inspired recipe for Pork Satay from the book 1000 Recipe Cookbook by Martha Day. 

I substituted cubed chicken breasts and made the long marinade recipe. We didn’t love the marinade. I think it may be the turmeric in the marinade that we didn’t like. One day I’ll try it again with the faster marinade recipe because we loved the peanut sauce. Thanks Cuppy!

Click HERE to visit the Daring Kitchen for the recipe and instructions. Visit the Daring Cooks Blogroll to check out all the scrumptious variations of this recipe.

Awards

honest scrap from kate

Jill at Jillicious Desserts, a very talented pastry chef and fellow Daring Baker, recently honored me with an award. Jill has an online bake shop and you really need to visit her site to see all of her amazingly beautiful creations.

This award came with some fun instructions:
1.  Post the award on your blog. Present this award to seven others whose blogs you find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged you.
2. Tell those seven people they've been awarded HONEST SCRAP, inform them of these guidelines, and ask that they link back to you.
3. Share TEN HONEST THINGS about yourself.

Happy_101
I also was honored to received the Happy 101 award from Nicole at Prevention RD and Sarah at Maison Cupcake. Nicole’s a Registered Dietitian and her blog is filled with great recipes and tips on eating better. Sarah is a Twitter buddies who lives in the UK. Her blog is filled with wonderful recipes served up with a side of humor.

The rules of the award are:
1. Copy the award image into a post.
2. List 10 things that make you happy.
3. Tag ten bloggers who brighten your day.
4. Put in a link to their blogs.
5. Notify the award receivers.
6. Recipients to link back to the sender's blog.

So I’m going to combined the awards and list 10 things that honestly make me happy - in no particular order.

1. My kids
2. My husband
3. Traveling
4. Scuba diving
5. Baking something yummy
6. Eating something yummy
7. Bright sunny warm days
8. Long walks on the beach
9. Sweet comments on my blog
10. Sleeping in my own bed after a long trip

I’m going to pass both awards on to some wonderful new friends and fellow food bloggers. Be sure and stop by their blogs and check out their delicious recipes:

1. Krista, The Double Dipped LIfe
2. QIS, Baking Temptations
3. Renee, Flamingo Musings
4. Chris, Mele Cotte
5. Lauren, Celiac Teen
6. Paula, Dragon’s Kitchen
7. France, The Scorpio Woman
8. Joyce, Flour Power
9. Mimi, Mimi’s Kitchen
10. Jessica, How Sweet It Is

52 comments:

bluamaryllis.wordpress.com on January 14, 2010 7:57 AM said...

Except for scuba diving my list is very similar to yours. Congrats on your award and keep the good recipes and fun coming!
Maryse

Heavenly Housewife on January 14, 2010 9:00 AM said...

Delicious looking chicken satay!
Congrats on your awards. I love the one where you say that you love to sleep in your own bed after a long trip. I say the same thing all the time--truer words never spoken daaaaaahling.
*kisses* HH

The Double Dipped Life on January 14, 2010 10:28 AM said...

Thank you for passing me an award!! Now I have to figure out what to say...

BTW...the best Satay sauce recipe I've ever had is actually on my blog. Try it and see what you think. We go to Thai restaurants and hubby always says mine is better! And it's EASY!

Kitchen Butterfly on January 14, 2010 1:23 PM said...

Smiling cause I've read about 5 different satay recipes this evening...including mine!!!!!!!!

Jessica on January 14, 2010 2:21 PM said...

Thank you for the award!! :)

I have never made this dish. And I am so embarrass that I signed up for Daring Cooks and Bakers and NEVER MADE ONE DISH. I am THAT girl. How embarrassing!

Gera @ Sweets Foods Blog on January 14, 2010 3:37 PM said...

Congrats for your award and your list is very similar to mine...the #10 also apply to me after a long training!

The chicken satay looks scrumptious :)

Cheers,

Gera

Sarah, Maison Cupcake on January 14, 2010 3:47 PM said...

Ahhhh! Sleeping in your own bed! I'm totally in agreement with that. The satay looks delicious.

Mary on January 14, 2010 4:05 PM said...

Barbara, you did a great job with this challenge. Your satay looks wonderful.

Lauren on January 14, 2010 4:59 PM said...

Yummy looking satay! Congrats on the awards and thank you very much for passing them on to me =D.

Lyndsey on January 14, 2010 5:09 PM said...

Your photos are fantastic! I can't believe you didn't care for it! We love satay w/peanut sauce at our house.

Congrats on your awards!! We love a lot of the same things! :)

Frenchie on January 14, 2010 5:37 PM said...

I saw chicken cubes at the supermarket and was so tempted to use those, but I had chicken in my freezer that I felt I should make use of. I think the pieces of chicken would have been a bit easier to eat thought!

teresa on January 14, 2010 6:12 PM said...

what a wonderful dish, it looks packed with flavor! congrats on the awards!

Chris on January 14, 2010 6:44 PM said...

Thank you! Thank you! So sweet of you to think of me for such an award. :)

And your chicken satay? Yum! I have said I would try my hand at it forever...may need to just jump right in. :)

Lori on January 14, 2010 7:27 PM said...

I love chicken satay. I kind of favor chicken actually. Very yummy Barbara.

Cristie on January 14, 2010 7:57 PM said...

Barbara, I love your 10 responses to the award. Scuba diving! How fun. I've never even heard of chicken satay, but it looks beautiful. It's been too long since I've actually seen you!

Audax on January 14, 2010 8:05 PM said...

Ver intersting list of things I like the sleeping in bed response. And your satay looks so delicious and you even got charring on the sugar snaps. Cheeers from Audax in Sydney Australia.

Bunnee on January 14, 2010 8:25 PM said...

I like the chicken and snow peas combo. I didn't love the marinade, but when I added the fish sauce and turned up the heat a bit, it was better. I have used peanut sauce marinades on dishes like this and I think that adds some interesting flavors when combined with traditional Thai flavors.

Margie on January 14, 2010 9:16 PM said...

Enjoyed both the satay post (great pic!) and top ten list. I agree about #10, but might consider shortening it to just "sleeping."

Megan on January 14, 2010 10:03 PM said...

The satay look delicious. Bummer you didnt care for the marinade.
Scuba Diving? You never cease to amaze me.
Fun list.

cuppy on January 14, 2010 11:24 PM said...

Megan took the words right out of my mouth! Hah!

Scuba diving is what stood out to me, too. ;) I've been watching a lot of underwater videos the last couple of months...

Your satay looks divine, and so do those peas. That's too bad you didn't care for it so much, but maybe you can find some better recipes to suit your tastes to make a better meal? :)

Michelle on January 15, 2010 12:14 AM said...

I've had Chicken Satay but never Pork Satay which actually sound so much better!

Memória on January 15, 2010 12:32 AM said...

YUM! Your satay looks fantastic! That sauce looks amazing, too!

Jo on January 15, 2010 3:03 AM said...

Great job on your challenge and the satay looks really delicious.

Katy ~ on January 15, 2010 3:03 AM said...

Barbara, your satay looks delicious. Taste tempting click!

Congratulations on your award. Well done!

Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella on January 15, 2010 3:15 AM said...

That looks great mum and isn't it great finding a peanut sauce recipe that's really good :D Congratulations on your awards-love that comment about sleeping in your own bed after a trip! :)

Mamatkamal on January 15, 2010 3:42 AM said...

Congrats on your awards. Well deserved!

I love your peanut sauce Barbara, it's much lighter and looks so delicious, mine was much thicker though it tasted good.
Your satay looks fantastic!
Have a great day,
Cheers

bake in paris on January 15, 2010 3:48 AM said...

It is nice to serve satays with green vegetables. I could see that your satay is scrumptious and peanut chunks amidst the sauce makes it very appealing!

Sawadee from Bangkok,
Kris

Natashya KitchenPuppies on January 15, 2010 4:17 AM said...

The dipping sauce was yummy, sorry you didn't care for the marinade. It does look great!

preventionrd on January 15, 2010 5:10 AM said...

Congrats on all accounts! Your blog is wonderful! : ) That Chicken Satay looks really yummy! Thanks for another great recipe! Have a great weekend!

Chetana on January 15, 2010 6:57 AM said...

Hey Barbara,
Thanks for stopping by n congrats for the award...u truely deserve one.
Cheers,
Chetana.

shaz on January 15, 2010 8:15 AM said...

Congratulations on the awards Barbara, I'm a fan of all those things especially suny warm days. Great looking satay, pity you didn't enjoy the tumeric.

Mimi on January 15, 2010 8:32 AM said...

Barbara
Congratulations on your awards, and thank you for passing one on to me.
Your chicken satay looks wonderful, to bad that you didn't really enjoy it.
Scuba diving?
Mimi

Lynda on January 15, 2010 8:58 AM said...

You did such a great job on the satay...looks delicious!

Trish on January 15, 2010 9:03 AM said...

Congrats on your awards. I love your blog cause you are honest. If you didn't like it , you didn't like it. But you pass on the comments all the same and some may like the turmeric whilst others maybe not so much. Grin. That is why we experiment and try. Our families, grin...what they go through with all our experimentation right?

lisaiscooking on January 15, 2010 9:18 AM said...

I love seeing these satay posts! It makes me want to mix up a marinade and peanut sauce. Looks great!

Faith on January 15, 2010 9:39 AM said...

Your chicken satay looks really delicious, I'm going to go check out the recipe! Congrats on yoru lovely award!

scorpiowoman on January 15, 2010 12:26 PM said...

Thank you for the award :) Since I'm new to food blogging, I'm really happy about that. My blog is still a baby LOL

Judy on January 15, 2010 8:36 PM said...

Congrats on your well-deserved awards. I love peanut sauce and satay, both. My Thai neighbor taught me how to make it. Her recipe is easy, peasy and so good (on my blog).

QIS on January 15, 2010 10:08 PM said...

Thank you for passing me an award!!
i love satays and peanut source so much. satays serve with beans is something new to me because in Malaysia the satays will be served with cucumber and onion only. yours look so tempting.

Lisa on January 16, 2010 7:13 AM said...

Congrats on your awards, Barb..more than well deserved! That said, your satay turned out so yummy on the eyes! Great plating and photo :)

Dragon on January 16, 2010 10:19 AM said...

Aww, thank you so much for the award. It means a lot coming from you. xo

pierre on January 17, 2010 3:35 AM said...

i love the satay sauce thanks for the sharing !! cheers Pierre from paris

petite nyonya on January 17, 2010 8:18 AM said...

Great looking satay! Well done, Barbara!

Kim on January 17, 2010 12:46 PM said...

Oh yum! The peanut sauce looks so creamy draped over your chicken. I could just gobble it all up now!

The Blonde Duck on January 18, 2010 1:58 PM said...

Perhaps we should get together for a meal of homemade m&c and french bread--we appreciate it!

Ninette on January 18, 2010 2:34 PM said...

That's funny. I didn't like the peanut sauce as much but the marinade was okay. Turmeric doesn't really have flavor, so maybe it was the coriander or cumin?

Anita on January 18, 2010 6:44 PM said...

All these peanut sauce recipes are making me very hungry. Congrats on the awards :)

Deeba PAB on January 19, 2010 6:39 AM said...

Congrats on the wonderful award GF,and I love the satay you made. Divine is the word. YUMMY!! Sorry I've been missing...

Katherine Aucoin on January 19, 2010 9:25 AM said...

I've only made chicken satay once and really enjoyed the sauce but didn't use tumeric. I hope you try it again and check out other variations of the sauce and find one that suits your taste!

Congrats on your award!

chef_d on January 20, 2010 12:00 AM said...

Yummy looking satay! I loved the peanut sauce too...congratulations on your award :)

PageRank Check on January 23, 2010 8:19 PM said...

I love this dish wanna try it

bruce on January 25, 2010 1:00 AM said...

Your pictures are wonderful. And I'd concur on your assessment of the peanut sauce. I think we ended up adding a bit more sugar as well!
I think the marinade would taste wonderful on chicken.

buy r4i software

Post a Comment

Thanks for visiting. I'd love to hear your comments and questions. I read and appreciate each comment!

 

Followers

Contact

I love hearing from my readers! If you have a question or comment, feel free to email me at barbarabakes@gmail.com
Unauthorized use or duplication of this material without express written permission from Barbara Bakes is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Barbara Bakes with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

About Barbara Bakes

About Barbara Bakes
Welcome to Barbara Bakes.
I love to bake, especially cookies, cakes, and pies. I'll post my adventures in the kitchen, my favorite new recipes, as well as our family favorites. More About Barbara Bakes
Barbara Bakes Copyright © 2009 Blogger Template Adapted from a Designed by Bie Blogger Template
Related Posts with Thumbnails