Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing and garden fresh cherry tomatoes.

Skillet meatballs and noodles in creamy herb sauce (Cook’s Country October/November 2010). We added egg, panade, and 1/4 tsp. baking soda to meatball mix.

Homemade blackberry pie and Umqua Vanilla Ice Cream.

Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.

Sweet potatoes with sour cream and butter.

Stuffed chicken breasts (America’s Test Kitchen, unknown origin, the one where you have chicken purée and mushrooms and leeks as the stuffing).

Homemade blackberry pie and Umqua Vanilla Ice Cream.

Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.

Garden zucchini with lemon.

Cheesy toasted ravioli with pesto (Cook’s Country April/May 2010.) No tomatoes.

Sous vide chicken breast with herbs and pesto.

Raspberry/Blackberry mousse pie (raspberry mousse with added blackberries).

Green salad with blue cheese garlic or lime vinaigrette dressing

Croque monsieur (Cook’s Country, YouTube)

Seared garden zucchini with lime vinaigrette

Raspberry mousse pie with peaches and whipped cream