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Remember WorldEats , that challenge we were doing that we haven't posted about in nearly three years? Progress slowed considerably in ...

When I hear fermented, my first thought is usually kimchi, but for the week 10 fermented challenge, kimchi was out since it would be too spi...

I was excited when the week 9 challenge came up as Brazilian, because B had never had Brazilian food before! I wasn't sure what to make ...

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...

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

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...