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Wow, how time flies! It's time again for the May edition of the Daring Cooks Challenge. Our hosts this month, Barbara of Barbara Bakes and Bunnee of Anna+Food have chosen a delicious Stacked Green Chile & Grilled Chicken Enchilada recipe in celebration of Cinco de Mayo! The recipe, featuring a homemade enchilada sauce, was found on www.finecooking.com and written by Robb Walsh.
We thank Barbara and Anna for coming up with an exceedingly DELICIOUS challenge -- but also for allowing us the chance to stretch our culinary muscles a bit. They gave us lots of freedom with this one, and I'm pleased to say that we really took the opportunity to run with it. While we didn't make our own tortillas (which would have been great, if we'd had…
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