A good roast chicken is the best dinner of all, however, always using local farmers grain-fed chickens. Cheers!

We buy local farm raised and pastures chickens....even better!

Oops, pastures chickens. I menu plan once a week, so I think if you plan that a certain day of the week is going to be your "new" day that might be one idea... Like every Friday is try a new dinner recipe or something like that

If this is my sister, I have some good recipes we can make together. (I'm assuming there's only one Morgan in Denver... ha!)

This is one of my favorite roast chicken recipes: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2012/08/roast-chicken/

Another fun skill to pick up might be homemade tortillas. I don't do them often, but it's a fun project, and they put grocery store tortillas to shame. Homesick Texan's flour tortillas are one of my favorites:
http://homesicktexan.blogspot.com/2007/03/and-end-to-my-quest-flour-tortillas.html

I'd like to learn to roast a chicken too, although the price is a bit of a stopper ($19.99 at the farmer's market if I want a "good" one, although it's under $10 for an industrially produced one at Stop & Shop.) Seems like it would be a useful thing to know how to do, though! Learning to cook whole artichokes would be another one.

As for making new recipes - cookbooks with lovely pictures are highly inspiring. In 2012, I borrowed and bought a few exciting new cookbooks, and also kept a running list of interesting-looking seasonal recipes, and I wound up making somewhere around 8-20 new recipes each month. (Holidays, obviously, are a big cooking time.)

I did this a few years ago....1 new healthy, preferably vegetarian recipe a week and never stopped. My unhealthy, boring meals naturally fell away and I am now effortlessly vegetarian. I continue trying new recipes every week (many from this site), only now the criteria has changed to preferably vegan and one day I will be effortlessly vegan....

What a great goal! I'm right there with you, Morgan. I retired at the end of the year (from the full time gig -- still have a part time job) which has given me a chance to not only start working my way through some of the fabulous recipes I've found here, but also to learn how to use my new pressure cooker, which is my next goal. It's so easy to fall into a rut when you're working, and rely on 4 or 5 "go to" favorites. (And last week's roast duck was SOOOO good...!)

It appears there may be 2 Morgan's in Denver who want to learn to cook more foods. I would love some good recipes!