Culinary bucket list

I saw someone doing this recently and was intrigued, so I thought I'd generate a list of my own: recipes I want to find/invent and master. In the past year I've gotten ginger blackberry muffins, an intense chocolate cake, and eggplant parmesan, so I'm trying to move on to other things I love to eat out but can't make myself, or that even restaurants often get wrong. Plus some basic benchmarks of cooking, some of which are blank until I try out recipes and know what works in those categories. As I finish these, I'm going to link to the different recipes.


Basic Thresholds:
Five Seven really good bread recipes
1. Sourdough
2. Zuchini bread
3. Beer bread
4. Popovers with strawberry butter
5. Scones
6. Cornbread
7. Herb bread

Five recipes to impress a date
8. Grilled asparagus with poached egg and parmesan
9. Salmon with mango salsa
10. Salmon with herbes fines
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Five recipes for hosting a dinner party
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Five recipes for hors d'oeuvres
18. Gruyere tarts
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Five pot-luck recipes
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Dips and Nibbles:
28. Guacamole that uses tomato but doesn't discolor
29. Mushroom hand pies
30. Veggie burger hand-pies
31. Fried dumplings
32. Quesedillas
33. Black bean/spinach quesedillas
34. Salsa
35. The dipping sauce for bread from Max's
36. Olive tapenade
37. Clotted cream
38. Jam/preserves
39. Betsy's chimichurri
40. Knishes
41. Scallion pancakes
42. Zucchini fries
43. Crunchy garlic pickle

Soups:
44. Tomato mushroom bisque
45. Cod stew
46. Butternut squash soup
47. Beef stew
48. Irish stew
49. Cream of mushroom soup
50. Tomato cheddar dill soup
51. Betsy's tomato bisque
52. Corn Chowder

Main Dishes:
53. The beef stew from that diner by the sem, over pasta.
54. Eggplant rollatini
55. Zuchinni frittata
56. Vegetable lasagna
57. Mushroom lasagna
58. Veggie burger lasagna
59. Mushroom-ale pie
60. Mushroom wellington
61. Welsh rarebit
62. Broiled salmon
63. Fried tofu
64. Fried eggplant/broccoli with garlic sauce
65. Salmon teriyaki
66. Stuffed cabbage
67. Mom's quiche
68. Fried banana and peanut butter sandwich
69. Macaroni and cheese
70. Barbara's chicken with apricots and prunes
71. Burritos
72. Yankee pot roast
73. Lamb ragu
74. Cod rollatini
75. Cod Florentine (no tomato, mom's recipe)
76. Poached salmon
77. Stir fry
78. Gnocci
79. Sweet potato gnocci
80. Pierogies
81. Kelly's quiche with chard
82. Convict's pasta

Sides:
83. Lime cilantro rice
84. Israeli salad
85. Couscous with onion/cilantro
86. Tateh's latkes
87. Fried green tomatoes
88. Colcannon
89. Sesame noodles

Desserts:
90. Cream cheese frosting
91. Pie dough from scratch
92. Banana bread
93. Pumpkin muffins
94. Tateh's cardamom cookies
95. Sugar cookies
96. Tiramisu
97. Flourless chocolate cake
98. Fried banana
99. Pumpkin whoopie pies with cream cheese filling
100. Decorated cake
101. Coventry God cakes
102. Crème brulee
103. Pot de crème
104. Rugelach
105. Hamentaschen
106. Layer cake
107. Apple cake
108. Plum cake
109. Plum tart
110. Kelly's oatmeal cookies
111. Italian cheesecake
112. Chocolate silk pie
113. Chocolate glaze
114. Perfect chocolate chip cookies
115. Perfect double-chocolate cookies