A Holiday for Foodies

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It’s the day that acts as an annual reminder to count your blessings, connect with your family and friends and to truly be grateful for all of the wonderful things in your life.

It also happens to be a celebration of food. And why not? Food sustains us and brings our families and friends together. It’s a mode of artistic expression for some and emotionally-charged for us all with every memory each recipe evokes.

Thanksgiving is less than a week away and foodies, party planning enthusiasts and pretty much anyone who has spent more than two hours on foodgawker is super excited.

I’m super excited.

And to kick off the celebration I’m posting my Hobbies Cookbook. As I’ve mentioned in my post on peach wontons , I have a bucket list of hobbies. It’s an ever-expanding list of activities I want to at least try out once. And one of those activities involved me cooking my way through a cookbook.

As I couldn’t find a cookbook that really interested me, I decided to make use of the most interesting collection of recipes I know: the internet. More specifically, I utilized the obscene amount  of recipes I’d already accumulated in my Chrome bookmarks list.

And so with 100 recipes, I’ve put together my own collection, the Hobbies Cookbook. What follows are the 100 dishes I intend to cook, complete with links to the recipes and the blogs where I found them:

1. Quick Raspberry Sauce
2. Basic Bread Loaf
3. Panera Bread® Broccoli Cheddar Soup
4. Pork and Ginger Pot Stickers
5. Asparagus and Peas Fritatta
6. Black and White Cookies
7. Mongolian Beef Recipe
8. Chewy No-Bake Cookies and Cream Bars
9. Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Bacon and Fried Egg
10. Quick Migas
11. Strawberry Torte
12. Carrot and Coconut Soup with Thai Red Curry
13. Linzer Sables
14. Guacamole
15. Baked Cake Doughnuts
16. Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits
17. Frozen Hot Chocolate
18. Spaghetti Alla Carbonara
19. Honeyed Pears in Puff Pastry
20. Herb Butter Mushrooms with Smoked Mozzarella
21. Alfajores Cookies
22. Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread
23. Beth’s Best Tuna Salad
24. Homemade Dulce de Leche
25. Mushroom Bruschetta
26. Mom’s Flan (by Abigail Garcia)
27. 5 Minute Strawberry Mousse
28. Kim Chi Fried Rice
29. Polvorones
30. Cilantro Mint Chutney
31. Crema Poeta (Vanilla Bean Pudding)
32. Pasta Puttanesca
33. Cold Chocolate Custard with Whipped Cream
34. Eggs in a Basket: Baked Eggs in Toast Cups with Melty Cheese
35. Italian Lemon Almond Mousse
36. Bacon Basil Tomato Sandwich
37. Crème Brulee French Toast
38. Chicken and Coconut Thai Curry Soup
39. Ice Cream Tiramisu
40. Olive Garden’s Chicken Milanese
41. Peach Wontons
42. Parmesan Herb Popovers
43. Mocha Ice Blended
44. Pancakes from Scratch
45. BLT Salad
46. Oreo Cookie Cupcakes
47. Avocado Tuna Melts
48. Caramel Macchiato Ice Cream
49. Rosemary Foccacia
50. Strawberry Fraiser
51. Tuna Cornbread Cakes with Lemon Aioli
52. Tres Leches Cupcakes
53. Spinach, Chili-lime Vinaigrette, Avocado and Sunflower Seed Salad (There isn’t a link for this one. It’s just a salad UGA offered in one of their dining halls. All the ingredients you need are mentioned in the title.)
54. Chocolate Cayenne Truffle Brownies
55. Garlic Scallion Noodles
56. Whipped Cream Cupcakes
57. Sun-Dried Tomato and Basil Pesto Pizza
58. Cannoli Cupcakes
59. Mac & Cheese Muffins
60. Cinnamon and Sugar Tortilla Strips
61. Almond Cake
62. Pimento Cheese
63. Payasam
64. Korean Style Short Ribs
65. Custard Cake
66. Garlic Knots
67. Petite Vanilla Bean Scones
68. Pajeon (Korean Scallion Pancakes)
69. One Bowl Chocolate Cake
70. Spinach Salad with Spiced Pork and Ginger Dressing
71. Churros with Chocolate
72. Baked Potato Salad
73. Palmiers
74. Stir-fried Egg Ramen
75. Turtle Brownies
76. Bacon and Tomato Pasta
77. Kourabiedes
78. Crisp Gnocchi with Lemon Garlic Greens
79. Microwave Lemon Curd
80. Soft Pretzel Bites
81. Tiramisu Cupcakes
82. Honey Chipotle BBQ sauce
83. Lemon Bars
84. Fiery Angel Hair Pasta
85. Caramel Macchiato Cheesecake
86. Avocado Fries
87. Amy Sedaris’ Vanilla Cupcakes
88. Egg Drop Soup with Ramen Noodles
89. Beignets
90. Tiramisu Cake
91. Chicken Francese and Egg Tagliatelle
92. Chocolate Tart with Shortbread Crust
93. Samosas
94. 100 Grand Cupcakes
95. Quick Potato Patties
96. Root Beer Cake
97. Butter Chicken
98. White Chocolate, Cranberry and Strawberry Rocky Road
99. Lemon Brulee Bars
100. Raspberry Chipotle BBQ Chicken

Now you can follow along with me as I try out each recipe. Feel free to comment on my blog with any questions and let me know what you think of the recipes, any changes you’d make to them, or even your own culinary anecdotes. Tell me your stories, I’d love to hear them!

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