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.

Tuesday Night Dinner 14-Oct-2025

Green salad with blue cheese dressing.

Pork and cabbage stew with cheddar dumplings (Cook’s Country Oct/Nov 2021).

Brussel Sprouts with garlic and lemon.

Creamy Cocoa (Jiggle! A Cookbook). This is basically a fancy panna cotta made to look like hot chocolate with marshmallows.

Tuesday Night Dinner 23-Sep-2025

Green salad with blue cheese dressing.

Greek Pasta Salad (from this site, but added marinated artichoke hearts).

Chicken Pot Pie. (Bottom crust partially baked from America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, filling from the same book, topping was from Pork and cabbage stew with cheddar dumplings (Cook’s Country Oct/Nov 2021)).

Richard Sax’s Chocolate Cloud Cake (https://food52.com/recipes/78350-richard-sax-s-chocolate-cloud-cake).

Tuesday Night Dinner 2-Sep-2025

Green salad with blue cheese dressing.

Caprese salad.

Blackened Chicken Sandwiches (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbmNmSv7WPY).

Some kind of from-the-bag instant pasta and cheese.

Onion rings (https://www.seriouseats.com/foolproof-onion-rings-food-lab-recipe).

Summer Berry Pudding (All blackberry version) with canteloupe ginger lime ice cream ( https://www.homesicktexan.com/cantaloupe-ice-cream/) 

Tuesday Night Dinner 12-Aug-2025

Green salad with blue cheese dressing.

Chicken nuggets (dry brined breast meat chunks cut against the grain, dipped in flour, then egg, then seasoned flour/corn starch mix) with blue cheese dressing and Melinda’s wing sauce for dipping)

Boiled corn on the cob.

Tuesday Night Dinner 29-Jul-2025

Green salad with blue cheese dressing.

Summery Summer Squash Pasta (Cook’s Country Aug/Sep 2021) with homemade pasta (used way less pasta water in the final step) and homemade ricotta cheese.

Sous vide chicken breasts (olive oil, rosemary, salt, pepper, sage at 143° F for about two hours) with pesto

Fresh fruit tart (America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook) using freshly picked blackberries and storebought blueberries and peaches.