5 Quarters

I actually finished the first 13 challenges of this year's 52 week cooking challenge on time, but am just so incredibly behind on blogging about them! In any event, all 13 posts are up now, so here's a summary of the first quarter of challenges for this year. I've got a streak of 5 quarters going. Pretty proud of that accomplishment!

Week 1 - diet foods (carrot and farro salad)
Week 2 - dairy (swiss chard and goat cheese custard bake)
Week 3 - alcohol (beer braised BBQ chicken sliders with Asian style slaw)
Week 4 - offal (liverwurst and provolone grilled sandwiches)
Week 5 - Native Australian (mango and macadamia chicken with macadamia garlic spinach)
Week 6 - two+ ways (carrots and Greek yogurt 3 ways)
Week 7 - chocolate (cocoa jerk tofu, chocolate green beans, chocolate vegetable tarts)
Week 8 - canned/preserved (strawberry fruit leather)
Week 9 - one color (green tofu patties and lentils)
Week 10 - book inspired (Harry Potter Christmas feast-inspired roast chicken and stuffins)
Week 11 - bananas (Southeast Asian banana curry)
Week 12 - hangover cures (bangers and colcannon with sausage onion gravy)
Week 13 - spicy food (Korean stewed chicken)

We both liked quite a few of these challenge weeks, but if we had to choose favorites, I think my favorite 3 weeks were chocolate, bananas, and spicy food, and A's were chocolate, bananas, and book inspired. We were both pretty impressed and surprised by the cocoa jerk tofu and the banana curry, and both will be great additions to our rotation.

Looking forward to the rest of the second quarter of challenges!