Wednesday, January 1, 2014

New Year, New Challenge

Here's a brief summary of the food challenge of 2013:

  • With all the hick-ups that occurred in 2013, I was able to complete 63 percent of the food challenges
  • 10 dishes were picked as 10 favorites
  • Two themes emerged from the food challenge of 2013 to forge the food challenge of 2014
Despite the business trips, mold infestation, and a sudden move; I think the boyfriend and I did fairly well in completing 63 percent of the food challenge.  Considering it was to occur 52 weeks, that's better than 50% :) Also, the fact we were able to pick 10 dishes as 10 favorites, that's pretty darn good.
Top 10 of 2013

Now, for the top 10 dishes as 10 favorites...

Each of these dishes had a common feel to them.  Aside from being tasty, they wanted me to dig deeper.

As a result, this is how the Food Challenge of 2014 will roll out:
  • There are two themes that will be present during the food challenge of 2014:
    • culturally different
    • vintage adaptable
  • Every week, the recipe will either be of a random country or from one of my vintage cookbooks
  • To be fair, the random country will be drawn by letter
    • for example, all "A" countries will be written on a piece of paper and drawn by the boyfriend to be a true random draw
    • all of the letters will be fairly represented even if there is only one country per letter like Qatar
    • this should result in 26 culturally different recipes represented
  • Vintage recipes consist of a dish from a book dated older than 50 years as of 2014
  • For optimum results, seasonal (and to the region) ingredients for the vintage and cultural recipes will be used
  • Total cost per dish must be under $20 and serve a minimum of 2 people
  • 10 percent of the remaining funds of per dish must be put back into PayPal Account and the balance at the end of the year must be donated to the local food bank
Onward, the food challenge of 2014, is just getting started with something ALBANIAN :)

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