We challenged FoodTribers to make something they've never made before, and this is what you created

Two weeks ago, I kickstarted FoodTribe’s most extreme challenge yet: a mission for us all to make something we’ve never made before. Then completely forgot about it until FoodTribe’s Jane Fyffe, who forgets nothing, wondered what had happened to the follow-up post.

So here we are a week late, with a chunk of courageous entries from FoodTribers who dared to turn to an unexplored part of the recipe book...

BAKLAVA BY PATRICK JACKSON

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Despite being one of Patrick's favourite desserts, he'd been dissuaded from attempting it by the legend it's supposed to be super-difficult. Turns out, it's not.

Looks like you've got a new signature dessert, Patrick.

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Great success: my first time making baklava

My entry for the latest FoodTribe #challenge turned out far, far better than I ever expected it would.

WARM SALAD, BY FULANA FOOD BURGULAR

Salads are very often the afterthought, a token sacrifice made to healthy eating, but Fulana's warm salad with chestnut, apple, shallots, radicchio, and red wine vinegar shows what happens when you give it some thought.

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Fulana Food Burgler on FoodTribe: #challenge this is a warm salad with chestnut, apple, shallots, radicchio, seasoned with red wine vi

#challenge this is a warm salad with chestnut, apple, shallots, radicchio, seasoned with red wine vinegar, oregano, salt and black pepper. T

PENNE PASTA, BY Zoltán Selo

You can't call yourself a true cook unless you've attempted DIY pasta, with a pasta roller.

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Zoltán Selo on FoodTribe: Today I got to fulfill one of my food related dreams, making homemade penne pasta with a pasta rolle

Today I got to fulfill one of my food related dreams, making homemade penne pasta with a pasta roller and I must say it tasted absolutely gr

MIRROR GLAZED VANILLA CAKE, AND Croque Madame, by Jane Fyffe

Apparently these challenges are a joke to Jane Fyffe, as she attempted not one, but two new creations - a croque Madame with the most irrestible egg spillage ever, and an intergalactic marble cake.

TRIPLE LAYER VICTORIAN SPONGE CAKE WITH KIWI JAM, BY NATALI Eleftheriou

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Wow yes. We had no idea kiwi jam was a thing.

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Natali Eleftheriou on FoodTribe: #challenge Yesterday it was my husband’s 30th birthday and I decided to bake a cake for him! 🎂

#challenge Yesterday it was my husband’s 30th birthday and I decided to bake a cake for him! 🎂 So here’s my attempt on a 3-layer Victor

CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS, BY HELENA LENNON

Helena's unsure about her chicken and dumplings dish, and it took a bit of improvising - but 'taste was great'. Surely that - and the knowledge of what to do next time - are all that matters!

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Helena Lennon on FoodTribe: #challenge made chicken and dumplings for the first time and I'm just no sure I like it. Taste was g

#challenge made chicken and dumplings for the first time and I'm just no sure I like it. Taste was great, dumplings worked but I prefer pot

BACON CHEESEBURGER PIEROGI, BY DOUG F

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We have no idea what a bacon cheeseburger pierogi is, Doug, but with bacon and leftover wagyu? This can't be wrong.

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#Challenge. My entry Sir John.

Bacon cheeseburger pierogi.

Drunken Beer Braised Beef Tacos, by Christy Sanders-Sarti

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Homemade tortillas? Drunken beef? Yew yes!

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Christy Sanders-Sarti on FoodTribe: Drunken Beer Braised Beef Tacos with homemade tortillas and topped with some homemade Guatemalan sla

Drunken Beer Braised Beef Tacos with homemade tortillas and topped with some homemade Guatemalan slaw. #challenge So this was my dish for th

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