Recipes to Try!

Desserts
Best Damn Meyer Lemon Cake
Meyer Lemon Whipping Cream Pound Cake
Lemon Loaf Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
Basic Lemon Cake
Beautiful Lemon Cake with Meringue Frosting and Lemon Curd Filling
Meyer lemon pudding
Whole Lemon Tart
Meyer Lemon Macarons
Lemon Thins and Glazed Lemon Cookies
Winter Citrus Tart with Chocolate
Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT RHUBARB and possibly originial
Strawberry-Rhubarb Pecan Loaf
Roasted Rhubarb YUM
Strawberry-Rhubarb Barley Scones lots of unusual ingredients!
Summer Rhubarb Purees
Mascarpone Cheesecake with Balsamic Strawberries
Goat Cheese Custards with Strawberries


Kringle!
Sugar-Crusted Popovers
Cinnamon buns, find a really good recipe for these... reference thread
Lemon berry crumble bars

Chocolate caramel cheesecake
Brownie-studded cheesecake
Dulche de leche cheesecake squares
Best cocoa brownies
Chocolate Salted Caramel Cookies
Chocolate Breakfast Cake
Caramel Cake
Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Squares
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
Reese'sish Bars

Jaques Torres chocolate chip cookies
Also try NYTimes chocolate chip cookies, browned butter cookies
Malted Milk Cookies and Salt and Pepper Cookies from Baked/Serious Eats
Homemade Twix Bars; also see Halsey Tart in Yard
Snickery Bars, with dulce de leche
Deep dish chocolate chip cookies

Ice cream in the food processor! Method adaptable to any flavor.
Salted caramel ice cream
Semifreddo with Roasted Rhubarb and Shortbread Crumbles

Polenta, Olive Oil, Rosemary Bundt Cake
Perfect panna cotta
Homemade dulce de leche (from actual milk)
Rhubarb Curd. Ohhh baby.  Another rhubarb curd and shortbread (!!!!!!!)


Various breads
Bagels. Order malt syrup.  A 3-hour process, bread flour.
Baguettes. All-purpose or bread flour; make dough a day ahead, 2 hrs rise before baking.
Italian Bread. Bread flour. Make biga 1 day ahead, at least 4 hours day-of.
Peter Reinhart's Buttermilk White Bread.  Two-rise sandwich loaf.  3 hours ish?
Mark Bittman's no-knead bread. All-purpose or bread flour. 14-20 hr rise, requires dutch oven.
Whole Wheat no-knead bread. Whole wheat flour only.  12-24 hr rise, then probably about 5 hours day-of.
Rosemary Garlic Bread
Puffy yeast dough. For croissant-ish things, rolls; see blog.

Cornbread in a skillet
Naan, pitas, tortillas--check moosewood cookbook or look online

Buttermilk Biscuits
Chocolate chip sour cream whole wheat scones
Homemade Rosemary "Wheat Thin" Crackers; regular Homemade Wheat Thins
Gorgonzola and Walnut Shortbread
Whole Wheat Buttermilk Pancakes.  Also check out Joy the Baker's vast stash of delicious-looking pancake recipes, ohmygoodnesssomanypancakes (search for the pancake section).

Pretty technique for round bread
Ideas for what to do with stale bread

Actual food
Gorgonzola savory cheesecake
Leek and Artichoke Bread Pudding
Leek and Mushroom Bread Pudding
Root Vegetable Cassoulet
Quinoa and Beet Pilaf

Mushroom artichoke pasta
Ricotta and Olive Baked Pasta
Spinach and Feta Mac N Cheese
Meyer Lemon Spaghetti with Goat Cheese
Baked crab mac n cheese
Lemon and Goat Cheese Ravioli
Zucchini Ribbon Risotto
Meyer Lemon Risotto
Spring Garlic Risotto
Potato Gnocchi with Sage-Brown Butter Sauce


Simplest Tomato Sauce
Eggplant parm, Food Lab-style
Roasted Veggie Lasagna (and see lots of epicurious best-ofs here)
Thousand-Layer Lasagna
Very complicated Ratatouille
Polenta with Lentil Ragu and Cheddar Bechamel
Lentil-olive-mushroom burgers
Tomato Paella
Puy lentils: from David Lebovitz, a salad, and from Serious Eats, try the galettes, the basic method, or the salad farther down in the search page.


Oven Roasted Brussel Sprouts
Sugar-and-Salt Cured Asparagus
Moroccan Carrots
Greek Zucchini Fritters with Tzatziki

Vegetarian Split Pea Soup
Tomato, Leek and Basil Soup
Vegetarian French Onion Soup
Vegetarian Pho
Veggie Gumbo

Shrimp Fried Rice
General Tso's Chicken

Indian spiced cauliflower/potato mash
Lentil curry soup
Pea and potato curry
Curried sweet potato soup
Curried eggs and spinach

Rick Bayless' enchiladas
Vegetable Tamale Pies
Spring Asparagus Fritatta
The Minimalist's ideas for summer salads; check for ideas in the summer!
Along those lines, quick meal ideas/outlines.

The Minimalist's favorites; includes pumpkin panna cotta, quick version of duck confit, scrambled eggs with shrimp, eggplant curry, more-veg fritatta, and lots of other tasty-looking stuff!
TNS's top ten meals of 2010: includes polenta napoleons, tomatillo-sauced fish tacos, bay leaf-black pepper panna cotta, chocolate babka, and honey-lime shrimp, plus more!  No recipes, but most are findable.

Baked Brie and Caramelized Onions
Roasted Creamed Parmesan Onions
Spicy Artichoke Dip
Roasted Garlic Hummus
Sprouted Chickpea Hummus
Beet Hummus
Roasted Red Pepper Puree
Buckwheat Cheese Straws

Hasselback Potatoes

Ingredients and Bits
Homemade Cultured Butter
Homemade Mozzarella; need citric acid and rennet
Homemade Mascarpone from whipping cream
Curing Bacon
Garlic Confit
Homemade Vanilla Extract
Curing Olives; another tutorial here
Mustard
Homemade ingredients post at Tasty Kitchen
Quick Pickled Zucchini

Homemade Bullion
Veggie stock--keep bits in the freezer!  Basic recipes here, but use whatever you've got, pretty much.

Drinks
Meyer Lemonade with Rosemary
Rhubarb Gin & Tonic