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The challenge for Week 8 was called "used to dislike." The first year I did the challenge in 2014, there was a challenge for an in...

I stopped doing the 52 week cooking challenge in late 2017, mostly because it didn't fit our lifestyle at the time, but also because it ...

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

This is the last post from the 2017 challenge for the 52 week cooking challenge. In my last post about why I quit , I mentioned I was start...

I couldn't figure out what to make for the stacked challenge, so I asked A for some ideas. He immediately said a short stack of pancake...

For over a year now, I've carried around a list in my phone of ingredients for a recipe that I hoped to make, roasted sweet potatoes an...

I put off the dim sum challenge for a long  time. The challenge week was in July, and I didn't make anything for it until September. I...

When I thought of California cuisine, the first words that came to mind were local and produce, since the produce out on the West Coast is...

The Week 23 challenge was titled on a stick. We came up with a number of different things we could make that are often served on sticks or...

Around the time that I started looking for something to do for the presentation challenge (one which I was not really looking forward to a...

I really like Scotch eggs and was always curious if I could make them myself, but the fact that I don't deep fry at home posed a bit o...