1. Learn to make North Carolina barbeque 2. Find a culinary Idol 3. Write a cookbook
4. Publish a cookbook 5. Eat on each of the seven continents 6. Raise honey bees
7. Sell honey 8. Have a garden 9. Grow all our own vegetables
10. Eat 100% seasonably 11. Raise chickens 12. Find the perfect chimichanga
13. Find the perfect barbeque sandwich 14. Thank Mrs. Amico for her cookies 15. Compost
16. Write all my own recipes 17. Bake all my own bread 18. Keep a sourdough starter alive
19. Pass a sourdough starter onto my children 20. Scan all of my grandmother’s recipes
21. Host a monthly dinner party 22. Get everyone I know to say pecan the right way
23. Eat at Kevin Gillespie’s restaurant 24. Eat local cuisine in all 50 states
25. Plant a pomegranate tree 26. Frequent an artisan butcher
27. Learn how to roast a turkey that has moist meat and crunchy skin
28. Make my husband creme brulee 29. Perfect the art of mayonnaise
30. Try every kind of cheese 31. Learn how to make cheese
32. Learn how to make chocolate 33. Visit a coffee plantation
34. Amass a collection of professional kitchen tools
35. Create a kitchen that is also a studio. 36. Make my kitchen the center of my house.
37. Always have cookies on hand
38. Make a kitchen that people want to sit in and chat (and eat) for hours
39. Make the perfect cup of coffee 40. Taste more in scotch than just the burning
41. Take a scotch tour of Scotland with my husband 42. Learn how to deep fry a turkey
43. Create a collection of handmade recipe books that my children will fight over
44. Get over my hatred of milk 45. Try and understand the appeal of all types of meat (ie intestines)
46. Write more pie recipes 47. Actually like the winning Top Chef contestant
48. Make 100% of what I serve to guests myself
49. Show people that creating food from scratch is easy, affordable, and fun
50. Learn to make puff pastry
51. Own farm land 52. Peel a pomegranate without popping a single seed
53. Learn how to make jerky 54. Learn how to clean and filet a fish
55. Learn how to slow roast a pork shoulder
56. Build a house with a woodburning stove 57. Build a kitchen with higher countertops
58. Perfect my knife skills 59. Learn to make tortillas 60. Learn how to process raw legumes
61. Spear a fish 62. Do a lobster dive 63. Take my husband deep sea fishing in North Carolina
64. Buy a vacuum sealer 65. Make rocky road ice cream
66. Find my pizzelle iron and make pizzelles 67. Amass a collection of artisan oils
68. Have a goat or cow for milking 69. Take a successful camping trip and cook a firetop breakfast
70. Pass on my family food traditions 71. Learn Dan’s family food traditions
72. Learn more about wine
73. Learn enough about wine to talk to my brother in law without embarrassing myself
74. Make the perfect pudding for banana pudding 75. Teach a cooking class
76. Learn how to make baguettes 77. Learn how to make pasta 78. Make my own sausages
79. Find the perfect potholder 80. Join a local food group
81. Become a regular customer at the Farmer’s Market
82. Open a coffee shop on the North Carolina coast
83. Create less food related waste 84. Learn to cook without cutting myself
85. Cut an onion without crying
86. Finish my wine cork corkboard 87. Stop buying pre-cut packaged vegetables (baby carrots)
89. Learn more about mushrooms 90. Grow heirloom vegetables
91. Master the art of coupon clipping
92. Eat 100% organically 93. Make a monthly tutorial video for b&s
94. Support myself by writing and photographing food
95. Sit down to dinner every night with my family 96. Help my mom open her catering business
97. Learn to like sauerkraut, for Dan’s sake 98. Learn to like escarole, for my mom’s sake
99. Drink sangria in Spain
100. Feel passionately about food everyday, never stop loving and enjoying food.
