Anybody got a cooking bucket list?

I've got some things on mine that I've been saving for "someday" to make. The first on the list is cream puffs. The last time I had homemade cream puffs was 105 years ago when I was about 12 and was visiting my grandmother. She was not a dessert cook, she could make roasts and soups with the best of them (and homemade cake donuts), but she didn't really have time for desserts because they involved a recipe and I think she was just too impatient to bother. I'm not sure what possessed her to make them, and this memory may now be a product of nostalgia, but I recall them as being the most delicious I've ever had - crisp and flakey bits of pastry stuffed with perfectly whipped vanilla cream.

The next on the list is Portuguese Custard tarts. When I was living in Toronto I worked in the Portuguese/Italian district and as my reward for walking to work, I'd stop in at my favourite bakery and buy one cod cake or shrimp patty, and for dessert a custard tart. These were amazing - the pastry crisp and the custard absolutely silky. They were sublime. I haven't had those in about 90 years and since I'm not anywhere near a bakery that makes them, I think I need to make them myself.

What's on everyone else's list?

Snowstorm, make sure that you use a pie pumpkin to do it, I'm told it makes a difference.

Reddog - Beef and broccoli? As in an Asian dish? That's one of my favourites!

Maggie, too funny! My Pinterest board is the same - I have so many recipes that even if I made 3 meals a day and lived to be 100 I would not get around to them all - and I keep adding. Right now I'm leaning towards making an Oatmeal Slice that I pinned. This too is a recipe from my childhood and I haven't had it in years - basically just oatmeal, sugar, and butter patted in a pan and baked. As I recall it tastes a bit like a granola bar.

Billy Connally gives some great advice - although every once in a couple of years I think some KFC would be just the ticket and then I regret it all night!

I don't think I have an eating bucket list, except for maybe truffles. I've never had a truffle and I might like to see what all the fuss is about some day. And Idon't know what's stopping me from making cream puffs but it's always on my list of "some day…"

Re the crepe cake. A friend of the family was from Iceland and she used to make Vinetarte every Christmas which is basically thin layers of cake stacked with a layer of prune filling. It was delicious.

Marissa I still dream about those cod cakes. They were basically salted dried cod, which had been soaked and flaked. They were mixed with seasoned potatoes, onions and parsley, rolled into balls, breaded and deep fried. Sooo delicious! The shrimp patties were also so good - little deep fried pockets of breaded dough stuffed with creamed shrimp. Yum!