Before I lapse into food coma...

...I wish all my friends and their families a warm and wonderful Thanksgiving evening. Now, I'm going to allow the tryptophan to take effect and go nap on the sofa.

Shadiehawke made me do it

These are the 101 "classic" recipes "everyone should know," according to Raymond Sokolov, author of The Cook's Canon. Bold the ones you can make competently, with or without a recipe. Italicize those which you've tried once or twice, but either didn't like, or don't plan to make again. Put an asterisk next to those which were culinary disasters.

All dishes are assumed to be made from scratch. Take credit for reasonable variations.

( The list )

Raymond Sokolov is out of his mind. Some of these I have absolutely no intention of ever even eating, much less making myself. Borscht? I think not. Tripe? Not in this lifetime.