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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 ...

Coming off a challenge year where I made a lot of salads including shredded cabbage, I did not want to do that for the week 2 cabbage challe...

The first country we explored for the Around the World Cooking Challenge was Afghanistan, and we started way back in June 2020. I really me...

The Week 2 challenge, noodles, was one of those themes where it's so easy to find something to fit that it makes choosing something real...

Clearly I didn't finish the posts for the 52 week cooking challenge for 2020 before the end of the year. I really tried, but December ju...

We don't really do a lot of picnics, but when I think about picnics, one thing that comes to mind is pasta salad. I've made pasta sa...

How is it already mid-May?! The last time I finished a post here, it was the end of March, still cold outside, we hadn't been vaccinated...

The Week 43 theme was food mashups. I think when I first saw it, it was late at night, and I couldn't even comprehend what that meant. A...

I'm a little picky when it comes to ginger. I love the flavor ginger adds to dishes, especially in Chinese cuisine, but I am not  a fan ...

For the Week 17 "from scratch" challenge, I originally intended to bake bread, which I couldn't do because we had no yeast. Af...

Week 3 of the 52 week cooking challenge brought something new into our kitchen - Russian cuisine! While we've had Russian food before at...

Reviews of Trader Joe's products aren't usually that long or time-consuming, yet somehow it's November and we haven't posted...

It's been ages since we've made a new recipe from scratch, between the dietary restrictions of pregnancy and my difficulty in moving...

It's almost the end of January, and neither of us has written up our top 10 food memories from last year (actually not sure either of us...

I love pasta shapes, so when Trader Joe's comes out with a new shaped pasta, it usually ends up in the cart. This winter snowflake past...

We love garlic, and so much of what we cook already includes garlic, so the big question for the garlic challenge was to figure out what w...