Tuesday Night Dinner 30-Dec-2025

Green salad with blue cheese dressing

Grilled Lamb-Stuffed Pita (Cook’s Illustrated 2017ANNUAL). Very good burger mix and sauce, but what were they thinking? I read this recipe and could not believe it, but tried because I thought they must have tested it. The bread got completely burnt after only like 2-3 minutes per side (as any reasonable person would expect) and of course they mean pita pocket bread instead of just any pita flatbread. It is really hard to cut a normal pita bread in half that way.

Rolo cookies (https://thefoodcharlatan.com/rolo-cookies-recipe/) with canteloupe ginger lime ice cream ( https://www.homesicktexan.com/cantaloupe-ice-cream/) 

Tuesday Night Dinner 16-Dec-2025

Various appetizers (brie and crackers, toasted almonds, cheese filled marinated peppers, olives, crudités)

Green salad with blue cheese dressing

Beets in butter

Roasted sweet potatoes

Tuscan style rosemary/garlic/lemon pork loin roast with vinegrette (From The Best of 2017, America’s Test Kitchen)

Red wine poached pears (https://www.seriouseats.com/red-wine-poached-pears-recipe-8764366) on puffpastry with crème pâtissière, blood orange supremes, and pomegranate arils

Tuesday Night Dinner 11-Nov-2025

Green salad with blue cheese dressing

Giant Pretzel

American cheese sauce (Modernist Cuisine)

Wild mushroom soup (bacon, carrots, onion, celery, garlic, lobster mushroom, hedgehogs, and chaterelles)

Blue cheese and walnut stuffed chicken breasts (America’s Test Kitchen Simple Weeknight Favorites)

Fluffy orange creamcicle jello with mandarin oranges and mini marshmallows.

Tuesday Night Dinner 4-Nov-2025

Green salad with blue cheese dressing

Wild mushroom soup (bacon, carrots, onion, celery, garlic, lobster mushroom, hedgehogs, and chaterelles)

Cheesy garlic bacon bread

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

Mushroom clam chowder version for Chris.

Fluffy strawberry Jello (Strawberry Jello with 1 cup hot water, then cooled to room temp and mixed with 1 cup greek yogurt)

Tuesday Night Dinner 28-Oct-2025

Green salad with blue cheese dressing.

Wild mushroom soup (bacon, carrots, onion, celery, garlic, cauliflower mushroom, porcini, hedgehogs, and chaterelles)

King Ranch Casserole made with homemade corn tortillas with twice the jalepeno (Cook’s Country, April/May 2007)

Cranberry-orange nut bread (Amercia’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook) toasted with whipped cream

Tuesday Night Dinner 21-Oct-2025

Green salad with blue cheese dressing.

Super beans (my standard recipe, concentrated homemade stock, kidney beans, bacon, onion, carrot, celery, garlic, ghost peppers)

Brussel sprouts

Bierocks (Cook’s Country Jun/July 2012) with ghost pepper and regular homemade mayos. 

Hand picked blueberry jello with whipped cream and marshmallows.