50 Before 50 List: Part Six

 

Tomorrow will be my final post in my 50 Before 50 List. Thanks for reading along over the past week or so. Today’s list has to do with cooking and baking. I love both as a creative outlet and have a few dreams up my sleeve for them! Here you go:

1.      Learn to make the perfect lemonade from scratch. Back when I was first out of college, I entered the beginning of the 15-year span of misdiagnosed gallstones. They told me I had acid reflux and told me to avoid all acidic food. Unfortunately for me, that meant giving up lemonade. I loved it, but it made me so sick. Now that we know I don’t have acid reflux and we also know I no longer have a gallbladder, I would love to learn how to make a delicious lemonade from scratch – that isn’t laden with white sugar. It’s a lot to ask, I know.

2.      Take a cooking class. Ryan surprised me a few years back with a Valentine’s Date to Sur la Table for a cooking class. We had so much fun, and I would like to try my hand at another cooking class – there or anywhere else. It’s fun to try something different.

3.      Have a Christmas baking day again. When I was single, I spent several years taking one day off each December so I could bake all the Christmas treats for gifts. I haven’t done this at all since getting married, and I think it would be fun to bring this back – at least once.

4.      Make all the recipes on the Unsifted website. Ryan and I have been milling our own wheat for a couple of years, but we tend to stick to the recipes we know. I would love to try them all. I know they won’t all be keepers for us, but I bet we would find some we really love if we would just try them!

5.      Make a signature dish from all 50 states. I’ve seen these on Pinterest and think it would be so fun to try. Make one dish from each state and see if there are any we really like!

6.      Create the Shaffer Coffee House coffee menu. I still haven’t learned to make coffee at home (the fancy way, anyway) and I think it’s time. I think it would be a good idea to learn this skill – and to create a menu of coffee drinks that we love to serve.  

7.      Consider raw milk life – We’ve been working hard over the past few years to clean up our diet, and I have done a fair amount of research on raw milk. I know it’s controversial, and I still have some learning to do, but I am putting it on the table, anyway.