Green salad with blue cheese dressing

Black beans with chirizo (too much chirizo, 1/2 pound for 1/2 pound of beans, winged it)

Mexican brown rice (https://altonbrown.com/recipes/easy-baked-brown-rice/ but with toasted rice, garlic, jalepeño, cumin. Frozen peas, and cilantro added at the end. Replaced 1/2 cup of water with tomato sauce, but it was too dry. Next time, add more liquid.)

Sous Vide Carnitas for Tacos (Crispy Mexican-Style Pulled Pork) (https://www.seriouseats.com/sous-vide-carnitas-crispy-mexican-style-pulled-pork-recipe)

Latin American-style flan (coffee version from The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook (2001-2016))

Green salad with blue cheese dressing

Herb and Lemon Orzo (America’s Test Kitchen Simple Weeknight Favorites)

Fall-Apart Lamb Shanks Braised with Mustard and Mint Recipe (Fall-Apart Lamb Shanks Braised with Mustard and Mint Recipe)

Salted caramel cheesecake (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g5uGhIeXZs)

Green salad with blue cheese dressing.

Nachos (https://www.seriouseats.com/ultimate-fully-loaded-nachos) with fridge pickled onion/radish/jalapeño)

Green salad with blue cheese dressing.

Baked sweet and russet potatoes (with butter and sour cream)

Chicken Tenders with our usual sauces (and an orange sweet/sour addition)

Three layer Knox Blox^® (First layer pomegranate, second POG, third panna cotta)

Green salad with blue cheese dressing

Wild Chanterelle and Chicken Pot Pie (https://www.devonlarson.com/recipes/wild-chanterelle-chicken-pot-pie/)

Chocolate mousse (https://preppykitchen.com/chocolate-mousse/) with cinnamon whipped cream

Green salad with blue cheese dressing and/or Uncle Dan’s with blue cheese blended in

Feta tomato pasta (kind of like the one at https://www.thecountrycook.net/feta-tomato-pasta/, just simpler, feta, pasta, cherry tomatoes)

Alton Brown Rice ()https://www.food.com/recipe/alton-browns-baked-brown-rice-177017)

Braised chicken thighs with fennel, orange, and cracked olives,(https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/b2/bf/93a6b5794a5b9ac5a5c296de3758/atk-25-braised-chicken-thighs.pdf)

Rolo cookies (https://thefoodcharlatan.com/rolo-cookies-recipe/)

Green and corn salad with blue cheese dressing

Fried zucchini slices

Roasted butternut squash

Classic Chicken Cordon Bleu (https://www.thespruceeats.com/chicken-cordon-bleu-recipe-1375482)

Blackberry clafloutis (https://www.seriouseats.com/cherry-clafoutis-french-dessert-recipe, substite equal amount blackberries for cherries) with whipped cream and blackberry sauce

Green salad with blue cheese dressing

Corn on the cob (steamed)

Ore-Ida tater tots

Grilled hamburgers with Modernist Cuisine melting cheese slices (with baking soda and garlic salt mixed in)

Blackberry cobbler (America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook) with store bought ice cream

Green salad with blue cheese dressing

Fried zucchini with panko parmesean crust

Sautéed zucchini

Green bean casserole

City Chicken (Cook’s Country Dec/Jan 2013) with peach sauce, dill sour cream, ranch, and fry sauce

Peach cobbler with store-bought ice cream

Green salad with roquefort dressing

Chicago Deep-Dish Pizza (Cook’s Country April/May 2023) with “cup-n-crisp” pepperoni.

Creamy Potatoes and Leeks (Cook’s Country April/May 2023)