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. Eat more pie 8. Have a vegetable & fruit garden 9. Grow all of 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 (for b&s) 17. Bake all my own bread 18. Keep a sourdough starter alive
19. Pass a sourdough starter on to my children 20. Scan all of my grandmother’s recipes
21. Host a monthly dinner party 22. Convince everyone I know to say “pecan” the right way
23. Build a collection of photography props 24. Eat local cuisine in all 50 states
25. Plant a pomegranate tree 26. Frequent an artisan butcher
27. Learn how to make a turkey that has moist meat and crunchy skin
28. Make my husband creme brulee 29. Perfect the art of mayonaisse
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 home
37. Always have cookies on hand (and learn self control around cookies)
38. Make the perfect cup of coffee 39. Taste more in Scotch than burning
40. Take a scotch tour of Scotland with my husband 41. Learn how to deep fry a turkey
42. Create a collection of handmade recipe books that my children will fight over
43. Make more cakes, for Dan 44. Try and understand the appeal of all parts of the animal
45. Write more pie recipes 46. Make 100% of what I serve guests myself
47. Show people that creating food from scratch is easy, affordable, and fun
48. Learn to make puff pastry 49. Own farm land
50. Peel a pomegranate without popping a single seed
51. Learn how to make jerky 52. Learn how to clean and filet a fish
53. Learn how to slow roast a pork shoulder 54. Build a house with a wood burning stove
55. Build a kitchen with higher countertops 56. Perfect my knife skills
57. Learn how to make tortillas 58. Successfully process raw legumes
59. Spear a fish 60. Do a lobster dive 61. Take my husband deep sea fishing in North Carolina
62. Buy a vacuum sealer 65. Make rocky road ice cream
66. Find my pizelle iron and make pizelles
67. Take a successful camping trip and cook a firetop meal
68. Pass on my family food traditions 69. Learn Dan’s family food traditions
70. Learn more about wine 71. Learn enough about wine to discuss it with my brother in law
72. Make the perfect pudding for banana pudding 73. Teach a cooking class
74. Make my own sausages 75. Find the perfect potholder
76. Join a local food group
77. Become a regular customer at a Farmer’s Market 78. Open a pie shop/brewery with my husband
79. Call it “Pie’s & Pints”
80. Create less food waste 81. Learn to cook without cutting (or grating) myself
82. Cut an onion without crying 83. Finish my wine corkboard
84. Stop buying pre-cut vegetables 85. Learn more about mushrooms
86. Grow heirloom vegetables
87. Steam my own crabs 88. Eat 100% organically
89. Make a monthly tutorial video for b&s (and sustain it for at least a year)
90. Make a living writing about and photographing food
91. Sit down to dinner every night with my family 92. Help my mom open a catering business
93. Learn to like sauerkraut, for Dan’s sake 94. Learn to like escarole, for my mom’s sake
95. Drink sangria in Spain
96. Convince people that “barbeque” is a noun
97. Convert Northerners one Bojangles biscuit at a time
98. Pickle my own okra 99. Be happy, every day
100. Feel passionately about food everyday, never stop loving and enjoying the eating experience
