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My initial reaction to the Week 17 theme, from scratch, was, "But if we're doing a real home-cooked meal, it's all from scratch...

Skipping ahead to the current challenge and will fill in the posts for the other challenges later... I was really excited that the Week 16...

The Week 7 challenge came up as braising, and while I knew it was a repeat of a challenge I'd done in a previous year, I wasn't unha...

The last time the 52 week cooking challenge came up with the Jamaican theme was back in 2014, the first year I participated. I was so excite...

We made a falafel mix from Trader Joe's recently, one that was sitting in our pantry for over a year, mostly because it didn't expir...

The week 5 challenge theme, rice, was actually one of the more difficult ones for me as far as choosing a recipe to try. We eat a fair amoun...

There are some themes for the 52 week cooking challenge where I have absolutely no idea what I want to do, like Week 4's theme - 24 hour...

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

One of the more interesting-sounding things to arrive in the Trader Joe's freezer case last fall (and still available today) was a box o...

When I hear miso, my first thought is soup (which amuses me, since the majority of the miso mentions on this blog have nothing to do with...

I unofficially took part in Reddit's 52 week cooking challenge beginning in 2014, and I stopped partway through 2017 because I just wasn...

Where has 2019 gone?! Despite our best intentions to post more this year, we can count the number of posts on two hands. Hopefully next year...