I was thinking for a while about my life and realized that it goes by too quickly. Routine eats up my days, and there is no easy way to break it. Kids, work, commuting  — and the day is gone. I needed a way to add a little excitement to my life and at the same time make my family part of that.

That’s when remembered that I like to cook. Not because I have to make something for kids to eat every day, but because I like creative cooking. So one day I came up with this project.

One day every week, I will cook a dinner in the style of a randomly chosen country, as best I can approximate it. I’ll try to collect the recipes and my interpretations of them, and report the results here, whether successful or not.

And so, here goes. See my progress below.

cooked 30 states (13.33%)