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Each week, we give you an ingredient, technique, cuisine, or inspiration. Each week, you cook a dish in that theme and share the results. Each week, your culinary repertoire gets a little bigger.

Each week, we give you an ingredient, technique, cuisine, or inspiration. Each week, you cook a dish in that theme and share the results.

2024 Official Weekly Challenge List

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Challenge Rules:

  • Image Posts Only
    All posts must be a link to a picture, album, and/or video of something you prepared for the theme. Personal blog posts or similar are okay so long as they still contain said content. Recipes and/or descriptions are encouraged but not required.

  • Anything Goes
    We'd like you to actually cook a dish each week, but any edible creation (drinks, baked goods, garde-manger displays, etc.) will count. Don't worry too much about the specifics of each week's theme, interpretations are always welcome.

  • No rules trolling
    As per above, do not try to argue that someone else's submission "doesn't fit the theme", particularly if you're not a submitter yourself.

  • No "zero-effort" posts
    That being said, submissions must exhibit some amount of cooking ability. Submissions that involve little or no preparation on OP's part will be removed.

  • Post title format = "Week X: Theme - Dish Name".
    If you don't match this exactly, the bot will refuse your submission. This will be alleviated in the foreseeable future, but for now please just make the Robot Overlord happy.

  • Post Only Dishes Made For This Challenge
    All themes are posted approximately three weeks in advance, and you can prepare your dish at any point in that time frame. Using elements you prepared ahead of time is okay. (e.g. do not post a lemon meringue pie that you happened to have made in January if a Lemon theme comes up in August. But, if you happened to have made lemon preserves in January and still have a jar in your pantry, you are welcome to use that as a component in your dish.)

  • Jump In At Any Point
    You can join the challenge at any point in the year. There's no inherent competition here, all participants are working for their own culinary edification.

  • Three-Week Time Limit
    Don't post anything older than 3 weeks from the current week - the idea of the challenge is to make time to cook weekly. (e.g if the current week in the sub is week 36, the oldest you can post is week 33)

  • Please Downvote Responsibly
    Everyone is cooking at a different level here. What might look like a basic dish to you could be the poster's crowning culinary achievement. Please don't downvote someone's legitimate efforts.

  • Our Robot Overlord Is Cold And Unforgiving
    It operates exactly to its programming, but the rest of the mods have the soft hearts of humans. Feel free to message the moderators in any instances where you feel you deserve leeway for flair counts, post removals, etc. Please be sure to include a link to the thread(s) in question.

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  • 2016 MetaTheme Completion - "MT '16"
  • 2017 MetaTheme Completion - "MT '17"
  • 2018 MetaTheme Completion - "MT '18"
  • (etcetera)

"Consecutive" means each dish was submitted during the corresponding week, not in the three-week grace period afterwards. In other words, to receive a consecutive flair for X-weeks, you must have an unbroken streak of posts, submitted during the corresponding week, totaling X-weeks.

At this time, please message the moderators to request flair.

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Week 49: Seafood - Plateau de Fruits de Mer

I love seafood, and I always gravitate towards it on every restaurant menu. The problem is, it tends to be expensive. I live not far from the coast in Devon and so there are plenty of upscale places that do a seafood platter, but for an eye watering cost. I thought I'd hit up the local fishmongers and supermarkets to create my own hot and cold platter, which consisted of:

Most of the work here was preparing the shellfish: cleaning the mussels takes a bit of time and shucking oysters is difficult and can be dangerous if you're not careful - I used a flathead screwdriver. In hindsight, I think my platter is a little overcrowded and probably could've done with one element fewer. But it was all delicious, and so much cheaper than eating this at a restaurant.

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2024/12/01
17:16 UTC

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Week 48: Vintage - Moistmaker Sandwich

I made the Moistmaker sandwich with our thanksgiving leftovers. I’m counting it as vintage because it’s from Friends. Soaking the bread in gravy did help with the dryness!

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2024/12/01
16:29 UTC

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Week 49: Seafood - Cowboy Caviar

1 Comment
2024/12/01
16:03 UTC

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Week 49: Seafood - Scallops with Saffron Beurre Blanc, Grapefruit, Carrot, Fried Basil, Almonds, and Smoked Salt

4 Comments
2024/12/01
15:40 UTC

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Week 46: Bones - Turkey Legs

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2024/12/01
15:09 UTC

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Week 45: Freezing - Roasted Frozen Sweet Potato with Eggnog Sauce and a La Negra Tiene Tumbao (meta: with a drink)

1 Comment
2024/12/01
10:03 UTC

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Week 47: Izakaya - Karaage (Japanese Fried Chicken)

This karaage recipe always work for us: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019428-karaage-japanese-fried-chicken However, the gyoza and takoyaki are from Costco. 😅

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2024/12/01
09:40 UTC

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Week 45: Freezing - black pepper tofu

3 Comments
2024/12/01
05:13 UTC

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Week 48: Vintage - Peanut butter, honey and oat bars

A lunch time classic through the 80s and 90s. Hopefully vintage enough!

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2024/12/01
02:08 UTC

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Week 47: Izakaya - Yaki Onigiri, Teriyaki Chicken, Veggie Tempura and (really big) Blueberry Mochi

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2024/12/01
01:39 UTC

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Week 48: Vintage - Scotcheroos

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2024/12/01
00:31 UTC

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Week 48: Vintage - Meatloaf

This week's dish was inspired by flipping around our small collection of my fiancé's Grandma's old community cookbooks. Funny enough, my fiancé only ever had meatloaf in his youth from his old job, and not ever made by his family!

0 Comments
2024/12/01
00:27 UTC

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Week 48- Vintage - Potato Skins

3 Comments
2024/12/01
00:12 UTC

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Week 46: Bones - Bone-Boosting Broccoli and Tofu Bowl (Meta: Volumized)

Well using bones isn’t an option, I didn’t want to do something that “looks” like bones, and vegan bone broth was not an interesting enough idea for me, so I went in the bone health direction. Broccoli and tofu are both full of nutrients that are great for bones, so they form the bulk of this recipe, along with mushrooms, a kabocha-based sauce, okara noodles, and various aromatics and spices. Neither my taste buds nor my bones have any complaints!

About my meta: I do a lot of “volume” cooking, essentially bulking foods out to reduce their calorie density. I thought that would be cool to incorporate intentionally into these challenges. So this year, everything I make will be vegan and wheat-free, and I will aim to volumize it.

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2024/12/01
00:03 UTC

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Week 48: Vintage -Turkey Pot Pie

My hubby has been asking for Pot Pie (who didn’t eat those as kids back in the 70s!) so I found a Thomas Keller/Ad Hoc recipe to stretch my skills - pastry making and a béchamel sauce. Looks like my oven was a little too hot, but it still looks pretty.

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2024/11/30
23:20 UTC

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Week 48: Vintage - Baked Alaska

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2024/11/30
22:52 UTC

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Week 48: Vintage - Tuna Casserole

1 Comment
2024/11/30
21:22 UTC

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Week 48: Vintage- Swedish Meatballs

Made these earlier this week and forgot to post until now! Even though it was right before thanksgiving, I was heavily craving mashed potatoes and meatballs. I remember eating Swedish meatballs as a kid at my friends house! This meal was incredibly tasty.

0 Comments
2024/11/30
20:30 UTC

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