I knew that blue foods would be tricky even when we were planning the challenges last summer. Blue foods just aren't really plentiful. T...

It may sound silly, but I'm afraid of gelatins. Okay, it is silly. I come from the Upper Midwest - the land of Jell-O salads. No famil...

I had no plans for this particular challenge, and I was starting to get a little nervous. That's when I stumbled on this recipe from, yo...

Last weekend I went to my parents' house to spend the weekend with them and celebrate both my birthday and my mom's birthday. While ...

I have never really enjoyed the process of making jams or jellies. There were a couple autumns I went to town on my parents' crab apple ...

I got a little literal, and a little abstract with this one, guys. The first thing that popped into my head with "food revolutions...

This is going to be the least sexy, most convoluted challenge I have done. I knew I wanted to do a recipe I hadn't done before, with s...

True confession: I have never made a pie crust. First, I do not come from a family that eats much pie. Some people eat pies all the time; ...

Ladies and Gents, we have our first failure. And I'm utterly delighted by it. For this challenge, I was very torn abo...

For the This Day in History challenge, I decided to make an Irish dish to celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne , a pivotal m...

One of the goals I have had with these challenges is to try and make every-day fare - things that our forebears might have eaten as a matter...

The Challenge: On the Facebook page, I gave a teaser about what I was cooking for the first challenge. It's something from an era I'...