🇪🇷 Week 5: Exploring Eritrean Cuisine – Tsebhi with My Mother-in-Law

For the final week of my #LearningProject, I had the special opportunity to cook Tsebhi, a traditional Eritrean stew, with my mother-in-law. After weeks of using digital resources, it was such a refreshing and meaningful change to cook alongside someone in person, especially someone who brings so much lived experience and cultural knowledge into the

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🇮🇳 Week 4 – Chicken Tikka Masala: Slow-Cooked Success

For week 4 of my #LearningProject, I decided to travel to India through my cooking. I made Chicken Tikka Masala, a classic dish known for its creamy, spiced tomato-based sauce and tender chunks of chicken. For this dish, I used a recipe from the Tasty app, which was a new resource for me. This week,

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🇲🇽Week 3 – Carne Asada Tacos: Adapting and Learning Through Cooking

This week, I dove into Mexican cuisine with the classic Carne asada Tacos. Some people might ask what Carne asada is, Carne asada literally means “grilled meat“ in Spanish. It’s usually made with flank or skirt steak marinated in a blend of citrus, garlic, and spices,  then grilled to perfection over an open flame. But

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🇻🇳Week 2: Rolling into Vietnam — Fresh Rolls

This week I decided to make Vietnamese fresh rolls, also known as summer rolls, a light, refreshing, and visually beautiful dish perfect for spring. Instead of relying on written recipes like I did for my Italian week, I took a different route. I focused on video tutorials, a combination of TikToks I had saved and

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