Week 14 - Alphabet

The Week 14 challenge was alphabet, which had so many interpretations. You could make actual letters of the alphabet. You could challenge yourself to use one ingredient from each letter of the alphabet (no thanks). As a casual viewer of Guy's Grocery Games (great background show), I was pretty familiar with the ABC Game, where every ingredient had to begin with the same letter of the alphabet picked at random. Rather than leave it to RNG and end up with, say, Q or Z, I decided to just find a bunch of things that started with the same letter.

Looking at that plate, you might be thinking that it's not possible that all of those things started with the same letter of the alphabet. You might be right, except, taking precedent from Guy's Grocery Games, starting with the same letter is kind of a flexible concept. It would always amuse me just how many things could fit into the letter G when you count every "ground" spice as G, no matter what it was. Thinking about it that way, here you had:

- chicken stuffing (Stove Top)
- chopped turkey meatballs (didn't have any chicken ones available)
- carrots
- canned green beans

A meal for the letter C! I didn't apply the rule to seasonings, because I couldn't find a way to make freshly ground black pepper and garlic powder fit, but didn't want unseasoned vegetables. We eat some variation of this meal fairly regularly, since stuffing is one of my favorite foods that B seems to enjoy as well (and Stove Top is just so easy for a quick dinner), but it was nice to be able to use it for a challenge.