Do you smell what The Rock is cookin'?

I have been thinking about finding one thing to focus before the end of this month so i can have something which i start from January and hopefully for every month till December.

Inspired from the movie Julie & Julia, i think i want to learn to cook every favorite dish i love to eat. This literally means the exact taste of the best recipe which is in my liking. Julie's idea was to cook every recipe in Julia's cooking book and to finish it within 365days. Mine would be much simpler. One recipe each month which means 12 recipes in 12 months. Whoa!

Even typing this now makes me nervous. I am really going to do this and the challenge of learning something that i may have no idea about is kind of exciting and scary at the same time. I know it's just cooking but imagine the consequences of one's cooking error can do to oneself! Well just hope i won't burn the kitchen at least.

Let's start by listing all my favorite dishes here and i'll sort it out later on which i want to do first.

1) Steak (thinking of a flat iron steak with some red wine)
2) Pasta (spaghetti and meatballs maybe?)
3) Daging/ayam masak merah
4) Nasi goreng belacan
5) Tom Yam Kung
6) Hokkien Mee
7) Jawa Mee
8) Nasi Lemak

I'll leave that to 8 dishes first in case i found a new favorite dish after this and decide to learn to cook it. There's a few more cookings that i am fond of but i don't really need to list it out here because i'm already very good at cooking it. [grin]

So. January. If it's you, which one do you think you want to try your hand at first?