Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.

Chicken Nuggets (medallion cut, panko and parmesean crust, flour and corn starch base, egg white and habanero sauce).

Shrimp sauce, sweet and sour, store bought BBQ, and hot mustard sauces.

Winco frozen seasoned fries (but we fried them, of course).

Boston Cream Pie (The New Best Recipe) – Not too impressed with the foolproof sponge cake. Maybe it is foolproof, but not idiot proof.

Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.

Charcoal grilled cheeseburgers (Modernist Cuisine Perfectly Melted Cheese Slices) with baking soda, pickles, red onion, ghost pepper mayonnaise, iceberg lettuce.

Roasted Cauliflower (Milk Street Tuesday Night Dinners) with basbaas sauce.

Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.

Homemade 00 pasta (https://www.gimmesomeoven.com/homemade-pasta/) food processor version. Store bought pesto with Modernist Cuisine Cheese Sauce and sous vide chicken breast (145 degrees F)

Spicy kidney beans (standard recipe, 12 oz bacon to 1 lb beans, aromatics, with some ghost peppers and jalepenos.)

Iowa Skinnies (referenced How to Make a Crispy Iowa Skinny Sandwich from America’s Test Kitchen on YouTube, but used panko), with ghost pepper mayonnaise, pickles, iceberg lettuce, red onion

Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.

Broccoli and elbow macaroni with Modernist Cuisine Cheese Sauce

Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.

Naan (Cook’s Illustrated All-Time Best Bread Recipes).

Moroccan-Style Braised Chicken (Milk Street Tuesday Nights).

Greek Salad (The America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook)

Fried Chicken (The America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook). We think there may be a typo. 3/4 cup buttermilk seemed like a lot to throw into the dry mix. We added extra flour, but probably not enough. Maybe 1/4 cup?

Baked Sweet Potato

French Grated Carrot Salad with Lemon Dijon Vinaigrette (Once Upon a Chef).

Winging it Pesto Lasagna with homemade noodles.

Buttery folded sour dough buns.

Wilted Spinach Salad

Bierocks (aka Nebraska Beef Buns) (Cooks’ Country, June/July 2012)

Yellow layer cake with blueberry jam and vanilla buttercream frosting.

Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.

Carnitas (America’s Test Kitchen, Season 10, Episode 21)

Maple Whiskey Pudding Cakes (Milk Street Tuesday Nights)

Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.

Chicago Deep Dish Pizza with olives, cup n’ crisp pepperoni, onions, and red bell pepper (Cook’s Illustrated, January/February 2010).