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
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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!
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.