BEB Bucket List 2.0
A few weeks ago, I mentioned my old baking and cooking bucket list, which I had dubbed “My 100“. I posted it back in 2008 (NINE years ago, whoa!) as a way to inspire me to tackle new things and track my progress. Since then nearly everything on the list has been crossed off (yay!) and I’ve been wanting to update and expand the list for awhile now.
I’m starting this version with 50 items, and I’m hoping that this time around we can tackle the list together. I’m still working through the details of how it’ll work, but I’m thinking something along the lines of a monthly bucket list challenge, where we all make the same thing, I’ll share the recipe here, and you all can share your results, photos on social media, etc. What do you think?! Would you be down for that?
Let me know, and in the meantime, below is my new bucket list!
Breads
1. French Bread
2. Go-to Dinner Rolls
3. Parker House Rolls
4. Sourdough Starter
5. Sourdough Bread
Sweets
6. Angel Food Cake
7. Apple Cider Doughnuts
8. Baked Alaska
9. Berry Fool
10. Charlotte
11. Churros
12. Clafoutis
13. Creme Caramel
14. Crepes
15. Cronuts
16. Earthquake Cake
17. Funnel Cakes
18. Galette/Crostata
19. Kouign Amann
20. Italian Cream Cake
21. Linzer Cookies
22. “Lush” Dessert
23. Magic Custard Cake
24. Maple Bars
25. Marble Cake
26. Panna Cotta
27. Poached Pears
28. Sfogliatelle
29. Souffle
30. Sweet Almond Pretzel Pastries
31. Tarte Tatin
Savories
32. Baked Ham
33. Chicken Parmesan
34. Chicken Pot Pie
35. Coq au Vin
36. Corn Dogs
37. Croque Monsieur
38. Egg Rolls
39. Eggplant Parmesan
40. Fried Rice
41. Gougeres
42. Grilling!
43. Hasselback Potatoes
44. Huevos Rancheros
45. Mexican Street Corn
46. Penne alla Vodka
47. Pot Stickers
48. Spanakopita
49. Stuffed Cabbage
50. Yeasted Waffles
If you have any recipes for these that you think I’d love, please share them below!
I use vanilla extract everyday, but so Doctors Office Near Me
far so good after 2 weeks of using the same bottle and replenishing with more vodka.
i would love the idea in your bucket list.
Almost none of the baking items or breads have I done.
I cook more than bake. Starting to bake is a challenge for sure
Dorie
I love this idea and I am on board. But when does it begin?
Looking for recipe for sour dough bread using your starter.
https://prettysimplesweet.com/panna-cotta/
I personally found that this is a perfect pannacotta recipe. Don’t know whether you have already made one.
Can you try making French macaroons? I’ve been trying and can’t find a good recipe
I have a fabulous recipe!!!
How about a Ginger Bread house. The kids love them,a great way to start a tradition.
BEWARE, they are addictive. I made one for our children’s doctor and after 20 years I was up to
10 houses.
Here’s two recipes for Parker House rolls:
https://newengland.com/today/food/parker-house-rolls/
https://www.omnihotels.com/blog/zagat-iconic-parkers-restaurant-parker-house-rolls/
As a Pittsburgh girl myself (now exiled to New England) I have two things on my culinary bucket list:
Lady Locks and salt sticks
I have found a few recipes for Lady Locks but haven’t tried making yet. The salt sticks still allude me…..
I’m from that area too and live in Connecticut now and LOVE Lady Locks. But what I am dying for is a good recipe for Burnt Almond Torte from Prangl’s in Shady Side. Did you find a recipe for the Lady Locks yet ? I have made them. Salt sticks im unaware of ….
I was on my island and forgot to buy bread. Needed a recipe and found your website. Made your white bread which came out as advertised. Looked through your website. Recipes look interesting…..but not nearly as interesting as you. (Consider this a marriage proposal). You should have your own cooking show. I’d watch you all day long. Good luck. I also recommend bakers joy as a must have kitchen necessity. PS do you sell posters?
Hi Michelle. I’ve been reading your blog for years. I love it! My son’s birthday is in a couple of days and he requested a Marble Cake. Oh my goodness…I didn’t realize how difficult it would be to find a recipe for a Marble Cake. I went to my Hershey’s, Test Kitchen and Cook’s Baking Book cookbooks and there were NO recipes for a Marble cake. What??? The next logical place to go was BEB…Oh no…still no recipe. I saw your Zebra cake from 2008 but it sounds like it looked better than it tasted. I also noticed you have it on your Bucket List for this year. PLEASE move this to the top of your bucket list! I’d love to have a go-to Marble Cake. Keep up the great work!
Hi Jill, Thanks so much for the suggestion and happy birthday to your son!
Love this list. There are items I’ve checked off but many I’d like to try. I just conquered Swedish Princesstörte. Great list, look forward to baking with you.
https://smittenkitchen.com/2013/05/essential-raised-waffles/
These are the best waffles ever. Airy, crisp, EASY, and make-ahead.
I’m all in :)
I’ve been dying to figure out fried rice! Can’t wait to see that one!
Great idea, Michelle! I’m in :)
I’ve used a recipe for Sweet Dinner Rolls from allrecipes.com many times over the years. I shape them like crescent rolls, as directed in the recipe, but they can be made into other shapes, too. I’ve also used the dough to make cinnamon rolls, with stellar results:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/17690/sweet-dinner-rolls/
I would love to join your bucket list monthly challenges if you set it up :)
Love these (http://www.thebakermama.com/recipes/baked-corn-dogs/) corn dogs!
Chocolate Babka Bread?
https://www.browneyedbaker.com/chocolate-babka-wreath/
I would absolutely LOVE to cook/bake monthly with you!! I read and follow you every weekend and have for quite awhile, it is the highlight of my weekend! I have been stuck in a cooking rut for a longboard time so let’s DO this monthly thing!!
Check out the blog Foxes Love Lemons. She has an AMAZING fried rice recipe– it’s a Greek Fried Rice and it is SO fresh and flavorful- you get the fried rice fix without the guilt. She uses chicken in hers, but I always make it with shrimp. Definitely worth trying!
Count me in for the bucket list!!! Great idea. Many of these recipes on your list I’ve wanted to try but are personally intimidating to me. So working as a group sharing is just ideal. And one per month is just enough. But not too much.
Lets get started!!! Only comment on the selections is the bread. Can we sub out one of the ordinary for the panettone Italian Christmas Bread with nuts and raisins. Or Brioche Egg Rolls?
Probably a no-brainer, but King Arthur has a great, easy yeasts waffle recipe. It’s the one I use whenever I make waffles! (Which should be way more often!)
I have a great recipe for Italian Cream Cake….I get requests for it all the time. Recently made it for the dessert bar at a friend’s wedding, and more people commented on it than the wedding cake itself. It was handed down from my mom, who was a wonderful baker. If you’d like a copy, email me and I’ll email it back to you. Love the idea of a baking bucket list!
Love the idea! I’ve been wanting to tackle sourdough for ages
Martha Stewart’s brown sugar angel food cake with berry sauce is wonderful! Thought of this when I saw you had angel food cake on your bucket list.
Being a native Pittsburgher, one of our favorite turkey leftover recipes was the Turkey Devonshire, originated at the old William Penn, I believe. I have made it many times with varying degrees of success. I keep tweaking the original recipe, and am still not 100% happy. Give it a try Michelle and work your savory magic on a hometown classic. Love BEBa nd your recipes and little boys – they are too adorable.
This recipe is delicious and impressive
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/black-white-angel-food-cake
Yum! What a great list. I make chicken pot pie a lot– it gets rave reviews. I follow this recipe subbing frozen mixed veggies for the peas/carrots/corn (I like the addition of green beans in the mix!). And I make my own crust w/water/butter flavored crisco /flour. Best part is that the recipe makes 2- one for now, one for later or for a friend.
http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/favorite-chicken-potpie
I’m in this sounds like a lot fun!
I made smitten kitchen’s baked Alaska last weekend and it was actually pretty easy! Time consuming because you have to put it back in the freezer after every step, but none of the components were difficult to make and it was so good!
Great idea!
I have done a few of the items on the bucket list and will look through the recipes I used as I have some pretty good ones.
Looking forward to this when you get it set up.
I would love to master fried rice!
I would love to make many of those.
what a fun idea! ????
The blogger Damn Delicious has a great pork potsticker recipe, we made it this weekend for the second time. The first time was hard but the second time around we felt more comfortable!
http://damndelicious.net/2015/08/28/pork-ginger-potstickers/
YES, yes, I’m all in!!! Challenging, but fun!
I think it’s a great idea! I’m particularly excited about Maple bars but all of them look good.
Yes! So many good ones. Yeasted waffles have been on my list ssince having actual Belgian waffles in Belgium (2011!) Looking forward to this challenge!
100% would bake along with you as often as my schedule allows!!!
I’m in. Some I have made and some I have never even heard of, so sounds like fun.
Here is a King Arthur Flour dinner roll recipe that has never failed me. It is close to my heart because it is one of the very first bread recipes I tried. Because of it’s success, it gave me confidence to continue baking bread.
Oh wait a minute! I forgot to add the link. Here we go:
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/soft-white-dinner-rolls-recipe
I love your website and your new bucket list. I don’t think I will make some of the items but would like to try making bread. I have not as yet tried to make bread because I do not have a good mixer with bread hook. I love making desserts and will try some of your suggestions. Also, I will try some of the savories. Your website is my go to when I want to make something. Keep posting recipes and info about your family. Can’t believe how your boy’s are growing. They are so cute and how they interact with Duke.
I can’t wait for the Chicken pot pie!
I just have to say you have the best blog on the internet! Any recipe I try of yours my family loves. Your boys are a delight and it has been so fun watching them grow and your doggy pictures always make me smile. All that being said I’m in like flint!!! Sounds like a great challenge to be involved with Thank you for the invite!
I think that sounds like a great idea! I have those baking/cooking bucket lists too.
I’m looking forward to your post on the Magic Custard Cake! That is something I have been wanting to try but haven’t yet. Spanakopita are so good! I have made them a few times. I have a recipe that I found on line that makes it like a pie in a 9 x 13 pan. I need to find it and make it again.
I’m in!
Sounds like a fun idea. I’ll have to look to see if I have any good recipes for the list. Count me in!
Love this idea! I have an awesome crepe recipe from a co-worker’s wife, who is from France. I also have an amazing vodka sauce recipe. We call it “Aunt Amy’s Ex-Bestfriend’s Sister-in-Law’s Vodka Sauce” It’s name is kind of a running joke. Since it’s been passed around to everyone in our family and neighborhood growing up, everyone adds on whatever their connection to “Aunt Amy” is to the front of the recipe. Silly, but fun, like many traditions!
I’m happy to share both recipes with you if you’re interested!
I’ve always wanted to try to make Sfogliatelle! Penne alla Vodka is so easy and YUMMY! I use Rachel Rays recipe.
Sfogliatelle are a bear to make — or so I’ve been told. Our favorite 94-year-old Italian fried says that it is his favorite dessert. I started looking up the recipes and I thought — I’ll just buy them at our favorite Italian deli. If you find a good recipe I’d love to know it.
Good heavens, that is supposed to be friend not fried. :-(
I watched The Chew one day a few months ago and Michael Simon made Overnight Waffles. They are yeast waffles. I had recently bought an All Clad waffle iron and made them and they were fantastic. Recipe is on the chew.com
This is my favorite “go to” dinner roll. I have been making it for about 25-30 years, and it has never once failed. They are always moist and fluffy.Around our family, they are just known as “those good rolls that Mom makes.” The recipe is from Taste of Home. I don’t change a thing, except to make the dough in my bread machine, and form the dough into 12 balls for each cake pan.
http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/oatmeal-dinner-rolls
Love this list – lots of things that sound delicious that I’ve never had the chance to tackle either. I love the idea of a cook-along!
Some other things on my own cooking bucket are cheese making, homemade fruit snacks, and smoking meats. It’s so hard to find the time – I have two little ones like you do and work away from home. But a monthly cook-along would be good motivation to just do it!
Michelle, do you already know a copycat recipe for the large color swirl (almond?) cookies available at Giant Eagle? They change the colors w seasons or black and gold during football season. I’d love that recipe
I love the idea of a monthly recipe we all make together!
I have a recipe for CHOCOLATE Angel food cake. My dad’s mom made it all time before I was around and apparently everyone loves. I’m not a huge angel food lover, but that one is good. I haven’t made it in awhile though cuz my husband would rather have regular angel food (this is the same one who doesn’t like a ton of frosting). Let me know if you want it! Oh and crème caramel is so easy and good!
I’m in! Love your blog!
OMG this list just makes me so hungry. I always tell my husband that I wish I had a bigger appetite to I could make more recipes. There just aren’t enough meals in the day! lol
Count me in!!! I’ve made quite a few things on the list but many I haven’t!!!
I agree with Jessi, let’s do a monthly challenge and I have done all the bread items so I’ll have to come up with a different list. Always wanted to make an angel food cake from scratch…call me crazy!
Love the idea of a monthly baking challenge!! Thanks for sharing!
I’m in! Yay!
Your idea sounds great, and I like that there is flexibility included. There are many things on your list that I, too, have wanted to try.
I have made yeasted waffles. I love that I can mix up the batter the night before and with little left to do the next morning, finish the batter and have waffles on the breakfast table in no time at all. Often times Saturday mornings are our family breakfast days. Ina Garten’s recipe is the love of my breakfast life (does it matter that I generally love all things Barefoot Contessa?)
https://barefootcontessa.com/recipes/overnight-belgian-waffles
How about adding homemade noodles to the list? My mom was Pennsylvania-Dutch, and her homemade noodles were always a part of our holiday traditions. She really didn’t have a recipe, so I watched her once and forced her to provide some sort of measurement guidelines. She passed away in 2009, so I’ve been making them for our holiday get-togethers ever since. The first couple times I made them proved to be quite stressful, but I can now say I’m turning out those delicious noodles just like my dear mother always did!!!
I love this list, bring it on! I know you have featured pie recipes in the past. I’m an avid baker but I’m so intimidated by pie crust. That’s going on my bucket list for spring and summer.
I made this look at summer when cherries where at the best. It was amazing. I also love Jesse’s blog. Make it, you won’t be sorry: http://www.jessiesheehanbakes.com/2016/08/16/cherry-clafoutis/.
I love the pics if the kiddos and pups!
Sounds like fun!
There is a recipe for Parker House rolls in a cookbook that I just bought. The cookbook is Bake from Scratch.
I used Alex Guarnaschelli’s recipe for Parker House rolls (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alexandra-guarnaschelli/parker-house-rolls-recipe) and Alton Brown’s (ugh, I adore him and all of his recipes) recipe for angel food cake (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/angel-food-cake-recipe).
I also have a baking bucket list, so I’ve only made each recipe one time (so far!). That said, they both came out perfectly.
What a great idea. I’ll be doing more of the bread and Italian recipes. Some on your list I’ve already done. What I’m planning on doing is reading a book that features food and do a review of the book and make a recipe from it. Like a little reading club plus pick a recipe. The story I’m reading now features an Italian widow who finds her way back from depression by cooking. I’ll have to save your list. Will you give us a schedule of when you’re planning on posting a certain recipe?
This sounds fun! I have to tell you your “lighter chicken parm” is what I use when I want chicken parm….it’s so good!
LOVE the idea!
Hi
Firstly. I love ur babies. Love their weekly updates and pics. And love the pics of Duke and late Einstein.
I have a recipe of Hasselbeck potatoes. Here goes.
http://therecipelarder.com/recipe/hasselback-potatoes-3/
This is from.my blog. Hope u like it.
Regards appu.
fabulous idea, love your weekly mail
I am ready whenever you are!!
Bring on these recipes!
Great variety!
I am excited!! ❤????
So many things on your list that I would put on mine. I’m in.
I made a raspberry clafoutis for the first time a few weeks ago. It was amazing! The world needs to discover this french dessert.
The closest I get to French desserts is Disney World, Ha Great bucket list though.
I saw Giada make one on a show over the weekend and now I’m obsessed with trying it! The sugary crust sold me ;-)
You had me at funnel cakes and Mexican street corn. :-)