Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing (or thousand island)
Left over mac and cheese from Modernist Cuisine with left over herbed pork
Chicago Deep-Dish Pizza (Cook’s Country, April-May 2023). One standard, one with pepperoni and olives added at the sausage stage, plus extra pepperoni above the sauce, and extra parmesean. It was better.
Celery Salad with dried cherry flavored cranberries instead of currants (Cook’s Country, October-November 2018).
Maple-bacon pork burgers (Cook’s Country, April-May 2019)
Modernist Cuisine mac and cheese
Raisin/chocolate/butterscotch-chip cookies (similar to America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook raisin-oatmeal cookies) with store bought ice cream and whipped cream.
Ben’s chopped green salad with thousand island dressing (or garlic blue cheese).
Crispy sweet potato slices roasted at 450° with spray oil salt and pepper.
Best herb-crusted pork roast from America’s Test Kitchen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGw-Y7ubmys).
Tahini Brownies (https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/tahini-swirl-brownies), but made in a waffle iron with Umpqua vanilla ice cream.
Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.
Braised Pork Marbella from last week/Store bought pesto/Chili Verde Pork Sauce (maybe add this special recipe to the classics list later) toppings on fresh homemade pasta made with 00 flour and rice.
Grasshopper pie (Cook’s Country, April/May 2006) with Creme de Menthe whipped cream.
Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.
Braised Pork Marbella, no red pepper flakes and replaced anchovy with 1/2 tablespoon fish sauce (Cook’s Country April/May 2023)
Egg noodles
Fried Ice Cream. We had frozen vanilla Umpqua ice cream balls coated in crushed corn flakes from last week, but used 2 whipped egg whites with sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, salt and then another layer of crushed corn flakes with more sugar and more cinnamon, and they were significantly better and crunchier.
Artichoke with ghost pepper mayonnaise
Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.
Orange-Ginger Pork Tenderloin (America’s Test Kitchen Simple Weeknight Favorites).
Persian Barley-Vegetable Soup (Milk Street Tuesday Nights). Used partially cooked pearled barley instead of quick-cooking barley (unable to find quick-cooking in any of the grocery stores).
Fried Ice Cream, Umpqua Vanilla (Ben and Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream and Dessert Book). The batter did a good job of containing the ice cream, but was very salty and not crunchy.
Artichoke with ghost pepper mayonnaise
Green salad with blue cheese garlic dressing.
America’s Test Kitchen Skillet Pan Pizza (with mushroom, onion, and peperonni). https://www.google.com/search?q=america%E2%80%99s+test+kitchen+cast+iron+pan+pizza+(ep+2122)&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS797US797&oq=&aqs=chrome.2.35i39i362j46i39i362j35i39i362l6.86928721j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:453c94d5,vid:-srfPL5CWZs
Dairy Queen Classic Ice Cream Cake.
Green salad with lemon shallot parmesean vinegrette.
Roasted Cauliflower (Milk Street Tuesday Night Dinners) with basbaas sauce.
Chicken Cordon Bleu (Inserted one slice of swiss and 2/3 slice of perfectly melting cheese slice from Moderinst Cuisine, one slice of ham off the bone from WinCo, egg white and brown mustard coating, flour base, panko and parmesean crust).
Appetizers of creamy cauliflower soup (https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/articles/6643-creamy-cauliflower-soup) with Hobbit Bread buttered toast.
Dairy Queen Classic Ice Cream Cake.
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.