Inspired by Arizona
THE MEAL (Click on the links above to jump to that part of the post!) Wow. This is it! The last meal of my state meal challenge. I made this goal all the way back in 2021, and my life has gone through so many Read More
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State Meal Challenge
Inspired by Nevada
THE MEAL (Click on the links above to jump to that part of the post!) Despite living next-door to Nevada most of my life (and my family having lived there for a little while when I was a toddler), I’ve never been to Las Vegas Read More
Inspired by California
THE MEAL (Click on the links above to jump to that part of the post!) California is the most populated of the United States, with almost 39 million people, and is the third-largest state geographically. It was culturally diverse even before European expansion, then the Read More
Inspired by Hawaii
THE MEAL (Click on the links above to jump to that part of the post!) Well, I’d hoped to make a more elaborate meal for our last tropical island and the 50th United State, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to find purple sweet potato, and Read More
Inspired by American Samoa
THE MEAL (Click on the links above to jump to that part of the post!) American Samoa is 7 islands (4 inhabited) in the Samoan archipelago that, unlike the independent nation of Samoa, is an unincorporated territory of the United States, taken in the late Read More
Inspired by Guam
THE MEAL (Click on the links above to jump to that part of the post!) Well, friends, this one’s gonna be short. This meal was SUPER easy to make. It didn’t require any kind of special techniques or difficult-to-master-skills, I didn’t have to buy a Read More
Inspired by the Northern Mariana Islands
THE MEAL (Click on the links above to jump to that part of the post!) We’re taking a detour from the West Coast to jump out to the oceanic U.S. territories, starting with the Northern Mariana Islands! The Mariana Archipelago consists of 15 islands. The Read More
Inspired by Oregon
THE MEAL (Click on the links above to jump to that part of the post!) We wrap up the Pacific Northwest with another salmon-centric meal! Baked Salmon Like Washington, Oregon is known for its seafood. Dungeness Crab is the most iconic from the area, but Read More
Inspired by Washington
THE MEAL (Click on the links above to jump to that part of the post!) I thought the last state-inspired meal was great, but this one was so good that most of it was gone by the end of the day! Seattle was one of Read More
Inspired by Alaska
THE MEAL (Click on the links above to jump to that part of the post!) The meal that started it all. Back in 2021, when I was first figuring out this state meal challenge, I was going to do the states in alphabetical order, starting Read More