What would a summer adventure be without a summer bucket list? How about a bucket list that includes 90 items to be completed in 90 days? Well that would be my list!

Included with my recipes, interviews and adventures from the summer, I’ll also be giving bucket list updates!

Let me know if you want to get involved and help me start crossing off my list!! (I’m gonna need it!)

  1. Complete the “food list challenge” (I’m at 68 66 of 100 right now!)
  2. Do a mud run (completed 5/26/12)
  4. Interview a chef in each of these ↑ cities
  5. Attend Taste of Chicago
  6. Surpass the 1000 follower mark on Twitter
  7. Host my own cooking show
  8. Meet Taylor Swift (don’t front, she’s awesome!)
  9. Go skydiving
  10. Attend a Red Sox game at Fenway Park (completed 7/8/12)
  11. Swim with dolphins
  12. Volunteer with WWOOF
  13. Cook with Giada De Laurentiis
  14. Appear on the Today Show
  15. Stomp grapes
  16. Have a pint at Billy Goat Tavern in Chicago
  18. See a live jazz band in New Orleans
  19. Fly on a Private Jet (completed 5/29/12)
  20. Visit a pig farm
  21. Meet the man, the myth, THE BOB STOOPS
  22. Go to a Cubs game at Wrigley Field
  23. Watch the Thunder become the NBA Champions ( saving this one for next year!)
  24. Take Mom Jet-skiing
  25. Go Zip-lining
  26. Make Someones Day
  27. Run across the Golden Gate Bridge
  29. Go to the top of the Space Needle
  30. Interview Jamie Oliver
  31. Eat deep dish in Chicago
  32. Donate toys to a children’s hospital
  33. Catch a fish
  34. Go horseback riding on the beach
  35. Spend a day with Giuliana Rancic
  36. Learn how to play the guitar
  37. Go to a Chicago Blues Bar
  38. Start a college fund for my “nephew” Eli
  39. Ride in a hot air balloon
  40. Participate in a flash mob
  41. Make homemade ricotta cheese
  42. Ride in a helicopter
  43. Go hiking in the rainforest
  44. Eat a hot dog at the original Nathan’s on Coney Island (completed 6/30/12)
  45. Publish a cookbook
  47. Participate in a food eating contest
  48. Go shopping at Pike Place Market in Seattle
  49. Take a photography class
  50. Become a contributing food writer
  51. Re-connect with someone I haven’t seen in years
  52. Get a menu item named after me
  53. Make it on Times “Top 100 Blog List”
  54.  (completed 5/21/12)
  55. Crash a Wedding
  56. Have a picnic in Central Park (does an iced coffee count??)
  57. Help a friend in need
  58. Go snorkeling
  59. Have a video on YouTube “go viral”
  60. Become a New York Times Best Seller
  61. Volunteer to help build a home
  62. Enter a recipe in a contest
  63. Run a race with all the members of my immediate family
  64. Start a dance party somewhere random
  65. Take my “Nephew Neighbor” Jake on a day of fun (completed 5/30/12)
  66. Meet someone new every day
  67. Inspire someone
  68. Play with a monkey
  69. Get a stamp in my passport
  71. See a moose
  72. Go white water rafting
  73. Actually finish a book I start reading
  74. Kiss someone in the rain
  75. Get an agent
  76. Send someone flowers for no reason at all
  77. Compliment a stranger
  78. Volunteer for Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign
  79. Send a dozen greeting cards out to random friends
  80. Ride a bull (a real one, not a mechanical… been there, done that!)
  81. Take Becca to Miami
  82. Create an app for food bloggers
  83. Play “slip cup” (completed 7/7/12)
  84. Go rock climbing
  85. Buy a Polaroid camera
  86. Meet Toby Keith (Boomer Sooner!)
  87. Have a food fight
  88. Be in a parade
  89. Be part of a big Italian family dinner
  90. Make my brother a gluten-free birthday cake (completed 6/1/12)

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