I took a Home Ec class in High School. We had to find a recipe, then took the bus to the store, bought the ingredients and came back to prepare it. Now that sentence there took about a week.
To this day I still don't know why, but I chose to make Cashew Chicken. I had never eaten Chinese in my life and swore I wouldn't.
And to this day, that was the BEST Cashew Chicken I ever had! I wish I had that recpie today!!!