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After two great recipes from the Parwana cookbook (the meat kofta sauce and the bolani ), I was really excited to try something sweet. I ha...

We had our first real taste of Oaxacan cuisine in LA over a decade ago (brief look here ), and have tried to explore more of the cuisine on ...

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...

I haven't finished posting the 2022 challenge yet, so this might get confusing, but I've had most of this year's just sitting an...

I'm not the biggest fan of mixing fruit with savory dishes, but I was hoping to find something for this challenge week that wouldn't...

We've been to Macau once. It was a one-day excursion over 17 years ago during a trip to Hong Kong, and I don't remember much. (Of co...

Back in 2014, the first year I (unofficially) did the 52 week cooking challenge, one of the themes came up as molecular. It was one of the f...

When I think of Georgian food, the dish that immediately comes to mind is khachapuri. We've never been to a Georgian restaurant to try i...

So behind on catching up from last year's challenge! I've already made Week 9's dish for this year, so I really need to get goin...

I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but I love, love, love garlic chives. In reading the Parwana cookbook, I learned that in A...

I've mentioned the Parwana cookbook here before , and besides the pizza, it was a big reason why we revisited our exploration of Afghan ...

They just announced Week 8 of the 2023 challenge, so I better start getting these 2022 posts done... Khichdi is one of those comforting dish...

A few days after the kofta pizza , it was time for our second Afghan pizza! I used the same recipe page from Afghan Culture Unveiled , this ...

At the end of the last post , I mentioned rounding out our exploration of Afghan cuisine and moving on to Alabama, so it would be logical if...

I had put together an entire list of recipes I wanted to try to make for the Afghanistan portion of AtWCC, but there was one conspicuous abs...