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52 Weeks of Cooking : Week 41 - Velveting

Kung pao chicken noodles. This recipe used the Chinese velveting technique for the chicken.

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October 10, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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52 Weeks of Cooking : Week 40 - Cottagecore

Potato leek soup. With Baguette and elderflower mead.

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October 4, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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52 Weeks of Cooking: Week 39 - Pears

A pear, roasted beet and goat cheese salad. With crab stuffed flounder.

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September 27, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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52 Weeks of Cooking: Week 38 - Hugh Hydration Dough

Homemade focaccia. With braised veal shanks and salad. The wine and olive oil came home with us from the estate we stayed at on our honeymoon in Italy.

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September 19, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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52 Weeks of Cooking: Week 37 - Same Longitude

Carolina style BBQ sauce on our pulled pork sandwiches

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September 11, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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52 Weeks of Cooking: Week 36 - Ginger

Ginger honey chicken, with chicken fried rice

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September 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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52 Weeks of Cooking : Week 35 - Rolling

Homemade ravioli with homemade sauce

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August 29, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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52 Weeks of Cooking : Week 34 - Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidadian Pelau

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August 21, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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Forgot to post my #52weeksofcooking submission for last week! This was for "lost in translation" and I made pain perdu, a dish that literally features the word "lost" in translation.

I made my own brioche for this too!

#foodsky 🍜🍽️

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Photo of a plate of pain perdu (French toast). Golden slices of brioche sauteed in butter, dusted with powdered sugar. Served with strawberries, blueberries and a generous dollop of whipped cream.
August 19, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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52 Weeks of Cooking: Week 33 - Lost in Translation

Vindaloo which comes the Portuguese Carne de vinha d'alhos, meaning "meat in garlic wine."

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August 16, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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Remember the bacon craze off the 2010s? It was gimmicks week on #52weeksofcooking, so I relived those days with bacon everything. I particularly enjoyed my maple bacon mini cheesecake and SoCo Sow-er with bacon salt rim. Epic.

🍽️🍜 #foodsky

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Photo of a spread of bacon related dishes on a wooden table, including bacon-wrapped pickles with bacon mayo, bacon jammy dodgers, a bacon maple cheesecake and a glass of bacon fat washed southern comfort sour cocktail.
August 10, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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52 Weeks of Cooking : Week 32 - Gimmicks

"Cowboy" burgers and mac and cheese. Home cured bacon on the burgers.

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August 8, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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52 Weeks of Cooking : Week 31 - Cantonese

Cantonese style braised pork belly and potatoes.

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August 1, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Cantonese week on #52weeksofcooking, so I made a trio of dishes: chicken and sweetcorn soup, Chinese sausage rice, and ginger milk curd. Three very different dishes, but all very tasty!
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Photo of three dishes on a wooden table. There's a bowl of chicken and sweetcorn soup, a shallow bowl with Chinese sausage rice and a glass with ginger milk curd, topped with honey-drizzled raspberries.
July 31, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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52 Weeks of Cooking : Week 30 - Science Fair

Our onion volcano for our homemade hibachi

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July 27, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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#52weeksofcooking invited us to a science fair this week, so I ran an experiment where I cooked AI-generated pasta dishes. It did not go well!

Pasta la Vista, Baby: Putting AI Recipes to the Test, featuring the worst thing I've ever eaten. 🍽️🍜 #foodsky

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Grid of four pasta dishes. Each is presented in the same plate and on a wooden board.
July 23, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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52 Weeks of Cooking : Offal

Oxtail tacos

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July 18, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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For the offal theme of this week's #52weeksofcooking I made chicken liver paté and red onion jam, with sourdough toast and rocket. Absolutely delicious! 🍜🍽️ #foodsky

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A wooden serving board holds a small grey ramekin of smooth chicken liver pâté, a generous spoonful of glossy red onion jam, several slices of toasted sourdough stacked neatly, one slice spread with pâté and topped with jam, and a small pile of fresh rocket leaves adding a bright green contrast.
July 16, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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52 Weeks of Cooking: Week 28 - Wild West

Bison Steaks and homemade baked beans

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July 11, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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52 Weeks of Cooking : Week 27 - World Cup

Inspir2d by the Tartan Army drinking Boston dry, we made beer battered fries and lobster rolls

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July 4, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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52 Weeks of Cooking : Week 26 - High Fiber

Enchiladas in black beans sauce with chickpea salad

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June 28, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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52 Weeks of Cooking : Week 25 - Gardening

Nothing in our garden has produced yet but we planted tomatoes to make sauce. So we made short rib beef ragu with homemade sauce and pasta, with a garden salad

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June 21, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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It's challenging to do a gardening theme for #52weeksofcooking when you don't have a garden and can barely keep a cactus alive. But I found my inspiration in Bavarian beer garden food: brezeln, obatzda, wurstsalat and radi. Das ist ja toll!

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A wooden table set with a Bavarian-style spread: two large glossy pretzels on a plate, a bowl of orange‑tinted Obatzda topped with thin slices of red onion, a plate of neatly spiralled salted white radish, and a bowl of Wurstsalat made from sliced sausage and pickles. Beside the food are two German beer bottles—Franziskaner Weissbier and Erdinger Dunkel—and a glass filled with pale amber beer.
June 18, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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For the Tarot theme of #52weeksofcooking this week, I made a Dead Velvet Cake based on the death card. My second cake ever! I think it went pretty well. Red(ish) velvet cake, blueberry compote, dark chocolate ganache and a white chocolate skull. 🍽️🍜 #foodsky

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Photo of a cake, tall and thin on a cutting board. It's covered in very dark chocolate ganache, fresh blackberries and a white chocolate skull decoration Photo of a cake from above on a cutting board. It's covered in very dark chocolate ganache, fresh blackberries and a white chocolate skull decoration Photo of a slice of cake. There are four layers separated by thin lines of blueberry compote. There's a fragment of white chocolate skull and three blackberries on the plate.
June 14, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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52 Weeks of Cooking : Week 24 - Tarot

A Lover's Card inspired romantic dinner including several aphrodisiacs such as fried oysters, honey, olive oil, hot peppers, spinach and arugula. Main is Chilean Sea Bass.

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June 14, 2026 at 12:15 AM