some tips;
Chicken Soup: put in the chicken only once water boiled so the soup stays clean
baked Salmon: bake as close to Shabbos preheat to 450 no longer then 15 minutes if slices are spread apart, cover with aluminum foil and keep in oven till meal. if you like it moist and not dry.
overnight potato kugel: 2 teaspoon salt, half potatoes with kugel blade other half with lokshen blade, if you put a onion put it with kugel blade, preheat to 450 for 1 hr. cover with aluminum foil two layers to keep the moist in, lower to 350 for another hour, leave overnight on 200 for overnight kugel.