wiredfool

• How to make the hand cut noodles at Snappy Dragon. Closely followed by how to make the veggie pot stickers. Even with all of the other good food there, plain noodles and pot stickers makes a meal good enough to travel for.
• How to make Essential Food’s Fremont Bread. It’s a moderately aggressive white sourdough, with a very open structure. Or Columbia — I have the recipe for that one. Just haven’t gotten all of the ingredients or the nerve lined up.
• How to make something like the Aloo Ghobi from India Bistro.

None of these are expensive, and none should be that hard to make. I don’t want to learn so that I don’t have to go to these local businesses, I just want to be able to do it.