2013 Food Bucket List

[Davwud]

So with the start of a new year and having crossed something off my bucket list in 2012 I'm wondering, what is on my food bucket list for 2013. I was bound and determined to get to Prince's Hot Chicken Shack in Nashville last year and although it took two tries, I finally made it.

So let's have it. What's a "Must do" for 2013?? Is it a food you've never tired?? Is it restaurant you're dying to go to?? Is it just something you want to cook at home.

Mine is a bit off in the future but this summer I want to have a shrimp boil. Pick a gorgeous summer night, invite some friends, get some beers, a whole bunch of shrimp and all the fixin's (corn, taters, sausage, etc) and just feast until we can't move anymore.

Then just sit around the fire and relax.

DT

[LMAshton]

I now have a list of 25 or so items that I'm going to try to make this year. Or, at least, I'll work my way through them and see what I accomplish.

Today, I'm making rice noodles. Because and for no other reason. And because it'll go good with the rest of the food... :)

[Veggo]

I want to try my hand at my Brazilian friends' feijoada, my Uruguayan friend's smoked sweetbreads (mollejas), and more roux- based dishes.

[mucho gordo]

I love sweetbreads (hint, hint)

[Musie]

I've got it into my head that I'd like to start making sausage. So my eyes are peeled for a grinder attachment for my mixer.

[NonnieMuss]

My plan is the same. I ground some skirt steak once for a recipe, and it was graphic and upsetting, so it's taking awhile to get my moxie up for the sausage thing. I have the KA grinder attachment and just got the sausage stuffer a few weeks ago. Now I have to breathe deeply and just make myself do it. Or maybe don't breathe deeply.

Otherwise I'm going to take a crack at goat cheese if I can find a nice, cooperative goat in the area. Or at least someplace I can buy goat milk.

[PattiCakes]

Hubby and son said they will be trying sausage this year, using a grinder/sausage maker I gave DH for Christmas in 2011 (and he has yet to use). They will also be smoking some of it. I should add that DH also said he would clean out the garage 4 years ago, but......

[INDIANRIVERFL]

Reviving a lost local delicacy. Smoking mullet. I will have to relearn how to use a cast net, season mangrove wood, and figure out how to properly smoke them.

I believe they were hot smoked, with or without a rub. Sometimes chopped into a fish dip. A great cheap appetiser until the net ban took effect.

[meatn3]

I've found the fellows in the smokehouse at Ted Peters to be very informative - if it is quiet and you use the right approach. IIRC they use red oak for smoking, no rub.

My families Saturday lunch tradition when I was a child was smoked mullet. I spent many hours watching the old timers cast net - truly a thing of beauty!

Please start a post on your progress! I would love to start doing this. Smoked mullet is one of the things I miss most from growing up in Fl.

[alliegator]

Poutine!
My best girlfriend's husband is being moved to Toronto for work. And although there's plenty of good eats to dig into there, we plan to haul our butts to Montreal and sit down to some real poutine right in the place where it's done best.

[gordeaux]

Tis the year ol gordeaux will smoke his 1st brisket at home. Been threatening to do it for a few years.Just need to find the right deal on a weber smokey mountain.

[subal]

Go here for good smoking info:
http://tvwbb.com/

[LMAshton]

Interesting idea!

I haven't given this any thought until this moment, but now I'm going to start a list for myself... :)

[Novelli]

My 2013 goal is the French Laundry. Looking at a mid-spring (hopefully) reservation, because that's the best time to taste their fresh young lamb dishes. If this is all I do for 2013, then I'll be happy.

It's been on my list for years and years and I'm finally going to go for it...full on! It's been a dream of mine for quite some time now and I've been saving for almost 2 years to afford it!