I enjoy cooking.  I don’t do it every night; in fact I usually just cook on Monday night for the week ahead, then maybe something special on the weekend.  But I try to do something new each time and keep broadening my horizons.  Until now, I got the vast majority of my recipes from AllRecipes.com.  It’s a great place to find relatively simple and good dishes that a lot of people have tried and enjoyed.

But recently I’ve been looking for a bit more of a challenge.  So after perusing Epicurious.com, I stumbled upon their ongoing series “Around the World in 80 Dishes.” Intrigued, I started watching the various videos which demonstrated how to make each. Most were dishes I hadn’t made or even tried and many looked like a good challenge to stretch my abilities.  So I’m gonna see how many of ‘em I can knock out over the next year or so.  Nothing as formal or involved as Julie & Julia, but admittedly similar.

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