learn how to prepare 10 excellent meals

chickpeas, tomatoes, spinach. spiced with curry and a bit of sugar. greatest comfort food ever.

Must get my mother to commit to writing: her recipe for eggplant and ground beef, and her recipe for eggroll filling.

Trying to learn the dishes I often have cravings for. Some of these may not happen until I get back to New York:

My mothers’ eggroll recipe, with yellow squash, clear noodles, and beef(?)

Butternut squash soup

Gyro

Falafel

Pesto! Four more to go.

Next I want to learn to make pesto for pasta.

coconut chicken curry—check!

shrimp pad thai—check!

and good raisin-bran muffins so that i can stop giving the school library cafe all my money: http://www.recipezaar.com/60141

Beef steak, cooked with the recipe for beef and vegetables in the Joy of Cooking.

Baked chicken, with enough water and some spices thrown on top in the end. Ridiculously easy, and super delicious!

I just got my copy of the Joy of Cooking in the mail. :)

I want to try at least one new recipe a week.