December 14: National Bouillabaisse Day
 
I don’t know much about bouillabaisse except that it’s a fish stew. And I don’t know if this has come across, but I don’t do fish. Especially fish in an instance where I’d be buying literally $50+ worth of ingredients to make a dish I guarantee would make me want to barf.
 
Work around? Vegan bouillabaisse! I found a delicious recipe (except I left the fennel out… I bought it and was all set to use it until I cut it open and the room was filled with the aroma of black licorice. Again, I wasn’t about to waste all the other ingredients if the fennel was just going to make it taste like old lady candy.), and promptly made it un-vegan by using chicken stock. Whoopsie. Anyway, it ended up being a fragrant (hello, rosemary!), thick vegetable stew. And it was good!
 

 
Was it the most authentic bouillabaisse? Most definitely not, but that’s okay.
 
Tomorrow: National Cupcake Day