Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.

Cauliflower gratin (The America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook) with bacon added (I think).

Beans in homemade broth (soaked overnight) with bacon.

Smoked meatloafs (mostly followed The America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, but smoked on my new Traeger Smoker, three small meatloafs, with one a mustard sauced version, partially cooked bacon on top, mushrooms and cheese cubes added to mix).

Homemade cherry cheesecake ice cream.

Mango cheesecake from Sweet Life.

Green salad with blue cheese garlic and/or thousand island dressing.

Beer-can chicken with lots of sage and rosemary in a salt and pepper rub over charcoal.

Cauliflower gratin (America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook) with bacon and Ritz® instead of breadcrumb topping.

Strawberry pretzel salad (Cook’s Country, Aug/Sept 2013).