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In Native American culture, the three sisters were corn, squash, and beans, three crops that when planted together, all supported each other...

Normandy is a region in Northern France, and while I have a general familiarity with French cuisine, I wasn't sure what dishes in partic...

First set of challenge blurbs for the 2024 challenge! Hoping to catch up on the other posts from this year before I get even more off track ...

This one is a tough one to write, given current events. Back in 2022, the cooking challenge had a Ukraine theme (partially written, still ha...

As a food allergy family, the easiest substitution to make is to swap in plant-based eggs for anything involving eggs, and that was what led...

I wrote all of this last February. I have no idea why I never posted it! Iceland has been on our "want to travel" list for years, ...

Time for the 2024 challenge! (And to finish writing about the other years...) The challenge for Week 1 was beans. When the theme came up, I ...

Time for some challenges from the weeks in the 40s! Week 44 - Halloween I'm not big into "decorative" food (kind of lacking in...

How is it already the last week of the year?! I better step up the pace on these challenge recaps, because there are still some unfinished/u...

Another group post! Some with great results, some stuff that we probably won't make again, but always good to try new things. Week 21: h...

The dish for the Week 43 theme, American Southwest, was surprisingly hard to choose. You would think that, with all the research I've be...

I really, really, really need to get better about posting and documenting things here before I am two  years behind on cooking challenge mem...

Remember last year's deconstructed challenge when I made a spam musubi bowl and counted it for the AtWCC, because I was probably never ...