Green salad with blue cheese dressing.
Pozole Rojo with all the fixin’s (https://www.seriouseats.com/pozole-mexican-red-chile-pork-soup-recipe-8732258). We added the chicharrón and some cotija cheese on top of our re-toasted tostadas.
Green salad with blue cheese dressing.
New York Strip Steak on the Charcoal Grill.
Baked Russet Potatoes with Sour Cream Cheddar Cheese Sauce (Ben winged it based on internet suggestions and did not write anything down).
Fresh Corn on the Cob.
Mr. Pibb® and Cheerwine®.
Green salad with blue cheese dressing.
Sautéed asparagus.
Roasted cauliflower.
Chicken piccata (https://www.seriouseats.com/chicken-piccata-italian-fried-cutlet-recipe)
Japanese cheesecake (https://www.seriouseats.com/japanese-cheesecake-recipe-11738806) with whipped cream and fresh Thistledown strawberries.
Green salad with blue cheese dressing.
Bierocks (Cook’s Country Jun/July 2012) with ghost pepper and regular homemade mayos.
Boiled sweet corn on the cob.
Baked pinto beans with bacon (winged it, my usual bean prep).
Dutch baby (https://www.seriouseats.com/dutch-baby-pancake-recipe) with whipped cream, fresh strawberries, banana, and chocolate chips.
Green salad with blue cheese dressing.
Tangy and Creamy Macaroni Salad (https://www.seriouseats.com/tangy-creamy-macaroni-salad-recipe) with olives.
Seared “young sweet” brocolli with lemon and garlic.
Smoked Tenderloin (winged it, salt and pepper only).
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook) (with cherry flavored cranberries, chocolate chips, and hazelnuts instead of raisins) with Tilamook Caramel Cold Brew Ice Cream and Magic Shell.
Green salad with blue cheese dressing.
Low-and-Slow Pulled Pork (no hot sauce, https://www.seriouseats.com/real-barbecued-pulled-pork)
Served with coleslaw (https://www.seriouseats.com/creamy-cole-slaw) and hamburger buns (storebought).
Baked pinto beans with bacon (winged it, my usual bean prep).
Cream puffs (https://preppykitchen.com/passionfruit-cream-puffs/#recipe). I am not sure why passionfruit is in the address, there is none in the cream puffs.
Green salad with blue cheese dressing.
Beer Can Chicken (over charcoal with rosemary and sage rub under the skin with oil and brushed with oil).
Savory Bread Pudding (a recipe Ben found that he decided was better left unknown).
Oven Roaster Cauliflower (sorry, no picture, but here are the other dishes again.)
Green salad with blue cheese dressing, beets, and whole wheat croutons.
Smoked Meatloaf, double batch, two loaves (America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, but with 1.5x the sauce, less onion, but added mushrooms, red peppers, mozzarella cheese and cheddar cheese and covered in almost crispy bacon after first layer of glaze crusts over).
Roasted Smashed Potatoes (Cook’s Illustrated, November 2010) with Uncle Dan’s white sauce. We overdid these and many were too burnt to eat. The larger ones were still pretty good.
Green salad with blue cheese dressing and beets.
Birria des Res (https://www.seriouseats.com/birria-de-res-beef-birria-recipe-8362004) with homemade corn tortillas
Super kidney beans (my special recipe, should probably post in that section),
Mexican rice (https://www.seriouseats.com/arroz-rojo-mexican-red-rice-recipe-8638838), used jalapeño instead of serrano.
Green salad with blue cheese dressing and beets.
Pasta salad (based on a half recipe of https://www.seriouseats.com/spanish-pasta-salad-chorizo-piquillo-peppers-recipe, but with corkscrew and elbow mac pasta, just carrots, celery, onion, artichoke hearts, olives, cotija cheese).
Chicken nuggets (dry brined chunks dipped in flour then egg then seasoned flour/corn starch mix) with various sauces (honey mustard, sweet and sour, orange-lemon sweet and sour, Kinders BBQ sauce, blue cheese dressing, buffalo).
Mozarella sticks (Cook’s Country, October/November 2016) with homemade marinara sauce (https://www.seriouseats.com/marinara-sauce-recipe, but then stick blended).
And the cherry tree was in full bloom:
