Keepin' Tradition Alive

I love traditions. A couple weeks ago, the Davis family (expat friends from church) and I fought hard to keep one we began in 2019 alive: Chopped. You know, the Food Network show in which chef contestants are asked to create three composed dishes by using pantry staples to transform mystery basket ingredients? Between factors related to health, work, and school, we found a workable date and plunged ahead, with family friend Gabby replacing oldest son Micah, away at college :( 

Doing it on a school night may not have been the wisest choice, so we breezed through it without dallying because #homework. These couple photos are some of the only ones anyone took:

Abigail, my all-time teammate, and I won the dessert round with our brownie-like double chocolate banana bread featuring bananas (no surprise there) as well as passion fruit butter and Twizzlers. Lest 2024 go the way of 2020 (ZERO evidence, photographic or otherwise, that we did Chopped, even though we all know we haven't skipped a year yet), the Rounds 1 and 2 basket ingredients were as follows:

Appetizer

Sausage links

Creamed corn

Coriander

Entree

Skirt steak

Hearts of palm rice

Nopalitos

Until next time, blessings in Christ!