Salad with garlic blue cheese dressing and homemade croutons.

Arepas fillled with green tomatillo pork sauce, beans, and cheese with extra fillings on the side.

Backyard raspberry clafouti with Umpqua Bordeaux Cherry Ice Cream and Magic Shell

Salad with garlic blue cheese dressing and homemade croutons

Brocolli with Modernists Cuisine cheese sauce

Rosemary sage bacon cumin beans

Fried chicken thigh sandwiches with ghost pepper mayonnaise, iceberg lettuce, and tomato on a potato bun (with roasted tomatillo sauce on the side)

Strawberry cake with buttercream cheese icing

Salad with garlic blue cheese dressing

Maple glazed carrot coins

City Chicken (Cook’s Country Dec/Jan 2013)

Almond Flan (The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook 2001-2016)

We needed extra egg and panko to properly coat the skewers.

Really, really good.

Sauces:

Lemon sweet and sour sauce,

Sour cream with sage, rosemary and lemon

Kinder’s Hot Barbeque Sauce (Reminded Ryan of Burger King)

Mayo, Ketchup, Liqiuid Smoke Special Sauce

Honey Mustard Sauce

Plus the blue cheese dressing and we did not do the ghost pepper mayo since we got distracted.

Salad with Blue Cheese Garlic Dressing

King Ranch Casserole (Cook’s Country, April​/May 2007).

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Raisin Cookie (America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, with some jumbo chocolate baking chips in place of some of the raisins, which were extra plump and juicy, a rare fresh speciality from our local WinCo).

Salad with garlic blue cheese dressing

Chicken Riggies (December/Jan 2011 Cook’s Country – or America’s Test Kitchen Best Recipes and Reviews 2012)

Strawberry Mouse Pie (standard graham cracker crust and Cook’s Illustrated Strawberry Mousse) with lemon whipped cream (not yet, but it will be served soon)…

Grilled Honey Glazed Pork Chops (Cook’s Country Jun/Jul 2011)

 ‎Sautéed Brocolli with Modernist Cuisine Cheese Sauce (White cheddar/Monterey Jack/Parmesean)

Salad with garlic blue cheese dressing

Good overall, but pork chops were too thin and got way overdone. Did 6 thin chops instead of the 4 thick ones that the recipe called for. Doubled the rub and glaze.

Salad with garlic blue cheese dressing

Hawaiian fried chicken (Cook’s Country Aug/Sep 2016) sandwiches with marinade sauce in addition to sauce from recipe (and of course, ghost pepper mayonnaisne)

Fried frozen potato wedges

Last night we had

Salad with garlic blue cheese dressing

Homemade spaghetti with meatballs.

Salad with garlic blue cheese dressing

Juicy Grilled Turkey Burgers (Best of America’s Test Kitchen 2014)

Cauliflower with Modernist Cuisine Cheese Sauce

Lemon Posset with Strawberries and whipped cream (America’s Test Kitchen the best of 2017)

We had:

Quick Clam Chowder (The America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook),

Hobbit Toast, heavily buttered,

Roasted brocolli and caulflower with Modernist Cusisine cheese sauce.

Salad with blue cheese dressing (red leaf lettuce, carrots, celery, yellow pepper, green olives, english cucumber)

Morel gluten-free mac and cheese (romano, cheddar, Gruyère) chicken casserole