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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...

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, ...

We kicked off 2024 with our first dish for Angola! I had initially planned to post the entire AtWCC "alphabetical walk around the world...

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 ...

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...

I wanted to finish off our jar of lingonberry jam and an opened package of sour cream, so the logical choice was to make some Swedish meatba...

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

Our next experiment with Parwana recipes was also on Eid (last year), a couple hours after the khetayee fail . We hoped that we would have b...

After two great recipes from the Parwana cookbook (the meat kofta sauce and the bolani ), I was really excited to try something sweet. I ha...

We had our first real taste of Oaxacan cuisine in LA over a decade ago (brief look here ), and have tried to explore more of the cuisine on ...

I haven't finished posting the 2022 challenge yet, so this might get confusing, but I've had most of this year's just sitting an...

We've been to Macau once. It was a one-day excursion over 17 years ago during a trip to Hong Kong, and I don't remember much. (Of co...