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Impromptu "lasagna" with my red sauce (sausage version), yellow squash coins instead of noodles and shredded mozzarella.

Made my usual red sauce but this time I used up the leftover chicken Italian-style sausage. Really good. Served over yellow squash "noodles" (yoodles?).

Stir fry with char siu, snap peas, carrots, mushrooms and onion. White Basmati rice.

Pork chops, BBQ style, with grilled yellow squash and carrots, all cooked on the PAG.

8 hours at 131f.

Tri-tip, cooked SV then seared, served with sweet potato with butter.

The wife wanted ramen, so here is what I threw together with what was on hand. Call it ramenesque. Chicken stock with soy, mirin, sesame oil, garlic and ginger, shrimp, char-siu, onions, carrots and rice noodles.

Salmon with orange sauce, with grilled squash and carrots, all made on the PAG.

Pork chops, char-siu style, cooked on the PAG along with red pepper, yellow squash and carrots.

Sirloin steak, cooked SV then seared, served with steamed cauliflower and carrots with butter.

Not usually. One of the secrets of the crust is to toast the panko in advance, just in a dry skillet. Then I let it cool and add seasonings. I don't coat the chicken, it's own moisture is enough. I just put the panko and the chicken in a zip lock and shake. Seasonings are a generous amount of an Italian herb blend from McCormick, salt, pepper, granulated garlic and onion, and a little bit of sugar. 20 minutes at 400F plus convection on a rack so the air gets to all sides. No turning. Nice and juicy.

Panko breaded (homemade) chicken tenders, convection baked, served with steamed squash.

I guess we didn't have that in the 50s and 60s when I was growing up, but I have heard the stories. But still, butter is out when you can't have dairy, and while I like vinaigrette and cook with a lot of oil instead of butter, it just doesn't work in some places where butter does.

There are some brands that are very good. Currently we are using I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. (No artificial ingredients.) Think of it as flavored vegetable oil.

There is always non-dairy margarine.

Burger, cooked SV then seared, topped with sauteed mushrooms in EVOO and finished with some cream sherry, steamed cauliflower.

Pizza. Store bought crust, with mozzarella, sauce, chicken Italian-style sausage, onions and mushrooms.

Tuna salad with steamed cauliflower and pop corners.

Sirloin, cooked SV then seared, served with air-fried potato coins and steamed broccolini.

Egg salad with carrots, pop corners, and at @heidih's suggestion, thin sliced squash under the broiler. It was all good.

Dinner was pork chops, BBQ style, cooked on the PAG served with a baked sweet potato with copious amounts of butter.

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Tri-tip steak, cooked SV then seared, served with air-fried fries and steamed squash.

Burger, cooked SV then seared, with sauteed mushrooms and steamed cauliflower with butter.

No, but I’ll have to give it a try. Have grilled spears on the PAG, but it was way too hot for that.