Cooking, Humor, Life Lessons

Cooking Challenge Conclusion — A Messy Work in Progress Learns to Cook!

2022 Cooking Challenge (24 Easy Recipes, with links to each one) “I can’t believe I cooked it!”

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I’ve completed my 2022 Cooking Challenge — and made 24 different meals for my 3-person family (that I’ve never cooked before)! You can read my initial cooking challenge here. This conclusion is a breakdown of my goals and outcomes, recipe successes and failures, my son’s funny taste test ratings for my dishes, and my own selection of which meals worked well for me with my work/family/life schedule.

I’m an Adult But I Can’t Cook, Can You?

Note: Links to all 24 recipes are at the bottom of this article.

My Cooking Challenge Goals & Outcomes

1. Goal: To improve the nasty, love-hate (love food/hate cooking), messy relationship I have with cooking and TeeKay (The Kitchen.)

Outcome: My relationship with TeeKay improved over the year. I experimented with new…