At some point, one of my Christmas gifts to Becky was a subscription to Try the World, a subscription service that sends you local foods that you can make into a meal. We didn’t have the emotional bandwidth to make them at the time, but this year we vowed to make it happen.

This is part of our 100 Things in 2018 challenge. Make sure to click on the photos!

Our first meal was from Morocco. We made two kinds of tea, and a lamb tagine with couscous. So good.

Another meal: Thailand! Thai iced tea and a curry, and mango sticky rice for dessert.

Meal 3 was from Sweden: several kinds of knäckebröd and a variety of other sides.

And a bonus (which didn’t come from Try the World): Italy! We brought back pasta and cheese from our Rome trip, and made mezze maniche carbonara and carciofi alla Giudia (Jewish artichokes), and it was delicious.