Food Challenge #1

We have wanted to start a food blog for quite some time but did not quite know where to begin... Recently we came up with the idea of writing about our desire to develop our palates - a "Tour de Palate" if you will--through a number of food challenges developed by ourselves or suggested by readers.

To get things started, we have developed our initial challenge "Cafe du Monde" in which we make a 3-course meal from a randomly selected country's cuisine each Thursday of the month. To begin with, given our systematic ways, we found an alphabetical list of all the countries in the world and used a random generator to select four cuisines that we will make (and of course eat!) in June. Which seemed like a simple idea until we discovered the following countries were selected:

Week 1 (June 9th): Cameroon
Week 2 (June 16th): Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Week 3 (June 23rd): Bosnia and Herzegovina
Week 4 (June 30th): Denmark

On Fridays, we will reflect on the meal and post pictures as well as the recipes we used. Stay tuned and feel free to give suggestions for July's challenge!