Green salad with lemon juice and spicy sesame oil.

Lasagna with meat sauce (added mushrooms, olives, and MSG) (America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook).

Asparagus sautéed in garlic with balsamic lemon vinaigrette.

Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.

Chili (from this site, but used overnight soaked beans instead of canned (1 pound of each and doubled rest of recipe).

Served over left over baked potato or rice.

Creme Brulee (flavored with espresso powder) (The New Best Recipe, From the Editors of Cook’s Illustrated.)

Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.

Turkey meatballs with Skillet Brown Rice Dressing (Cook’s Country, Oct/Nov 2022).

Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.

Chicken Fried Steak (prepped with salt and baking powder brine as in Country Fried Steak recipe from Cook’s Country June\July 2020, but our standard breading)

Onion rings (serious eats, https://www.seriouseats.com/foolproof-onion-rings-food-lab-recipe)

Boston Cream Pie (The New Best Recipe (From the editors of Cook’s Illustrated).

Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.

Pork meatball soup with wonton noodles and baby bok choy (Cook’s Country, December/January 2023)