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Challenge week : 5 Theme : Whole spices What I made : Coconut chickpea curry, but since I made it in the beginning of February and decided w...

I really intended to catch up on all these challenge posts a couple of months ago, but my brain has had a really hard time focusing on writi...

I wrote this back in March, but I think I was waiting to publish it until I had finished all the weeks in-between. I'm not planning to g...

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...

Where has the year gone?! Behind on these challenge posts again... I thought about skipping the Week 4 challenge, confit. It was a repeat of...

The last time the Indonesian challenge came up (in 2015), I tried to make nasi goreng , and while it tasted like fried rice, it didn't t...

When I saw the Week 2 theme, meat substitute, I had every intention of using something like Impossible Burger or Beyond meatballs or Trader ...

I'm not a huge fan of carbonated drinks, so I've mostly ignored the seasonal sparkling beverages at Trader Joe's, despite the ra...

I felt all sorts of emotions when the first challenge of 2021 came up as last meal. I was sad, angry, and upset, because what kind of challe...

2020 was a year like no other in our lifetimes, but I don't think I need to explain why to anybody reading this post because we all live...

Another challenge year in the books! I skipped three and postponed/skipped one, so I guess it was really another 48 challenges, but I'm ...

I'm disappointed to be ending the challenge year on something that feels so lackluster, but with the Week 52 theme being garnish, there ...

The Week 51 challenge, Jewish, was technically the last challenge I completed in 2020. I had planned to do it earlier in the month, but just...