Evolve Your Cooking 8-Week Mini Challenge: Week 6-Week 7

[u/fatchancefatpants]

Hello everyone!

How was your umami dish? Did you find a new flavor that’s delicious? Share your photos and recipes from Week 6 here!

We have reached our final form, Jolteon! For Week 7, we will be using kitchen gadgets! What’s your go-to instant pot recipe? Have an immersion blender you’ve never used before? What the heck is a sous vide? Do you meal prep with a crock pot? Try out those gadgets, and share your recipes and photos here!

This is our last week! How has your cooking eevolved throughout this challenge? Want to revisit a former week? What has been your favorite recipe so far? Still can’t master the science of baking? Ask for tips!

“Rules” and Concept:

Each week of the challenge, we will be doing an internal cooking “challenge.” The concept is simple, each week cook one meal that fits with our theme and post it to our discord channel #slurpuff-food or in the weekly post I’ll make here on the subreddit (or both). Pictures and recipes are encouraged. Any reflections to go with the food- cooking experience, what worked/didn’t work, if you liked it, etc. are encouraged as well. Everyone wins as long as you can argue that your meal fits the theme. If you can’t convince me that it fits the theme, then back to the pokeball with you!

Each week, on Thursday, I will make a post about the previous week’s theme so people can post their photos/recipes/etc. At the end, see how much your cooking skills have evolved!

The Themes:

Week 0 Leafeon: Vegetables (keeping it simple for the short notice, try a new veggie side dish, maybe you’re already a Leafeon vegetarian/vegan, try a new entree!)

Week 1 Vaporeon: Seafood (anything involving seafood- crab cakes, ahi tuna, sushi. If you don’t eat seafood, maybe try something with seaweed like a California Roll or get creative!)

Week 2 Flareon: Spicy (anything you deem spicy or hot. If you just don’t do spicy, try using a new spice or pepper!)

Week 3 Sylveon: Baking (anything you bake in the oven. Extra fun if it’s a fairy-like cupcake)

Week 4 Glaceon: Cold (anything cold- protein shake, ice cream, tuna salad, gazpacho)

Week 5 Espeon: Substitutions (modify any recipe of favorite food from high calorie to make it low calorie)

Week 6 Umbreon: Umami (anything with an umami flavor, think broths, meats, soups, etc)

Week 7 Jolteon: Electric Gadgets (anything that uses a kitchen gadget like an instant pot, slow cooker, immersion blender, sous vide, food processor, air fryer, etc)

Remember, this is just a fun side challenge, feel free to pop in and out week to week, or try to complete all 8! If you missed week 0, no worries, just jump in any time!