What's cooking for Fathers' Day?

[vbak]

I hope I'm not repeating a thread on this. DH, kids and spouses and DGK will be here for dinner[DH and I are the " old people" now]. I am making : pizza on the grill, Chicken sate with peanut sauce, BBribs, chicken breasts, twice baked potatoes, homemade bread, and corn on the cob. DH will "cook" the ribs and chicken. So, what's cookin' at your house? Vicky

[valchemist]

We are having a BBQ over at mom (maizeyoats) and dad's house.

We'll probably be having hot dogs and hamburgers and some sides. Yum. My first taste of these things this season.

I am contributing the dessert:

Molli's Butterscotch Whirls with Date Filling

Peaches and Cream Pie (not really a pie at all...really should just call it a dessert)

[pwrmom]

I just asked my DH what he'd like for his Father's Day dinner (this was after making him and the 3 kiddos a breakfast of a tomato and cheese omelet w/toast and bacon!)and he said, "hmmmm, something pasta/seafood with a cream sauce - the real kind, not some light concoction!" He knows me only too well. Little does he know that I'll whip out the Seafood Fettucini cover recipe from a few months ago and serve him what he wants and he'll never know it's from Cooking Light!
Hope all of your DHs have a wonderful day!
Linda

[lindrusso]

Not much!

Our families live far away, so it's just DH, the kids and me for most of these celebrations.

We have 12:00 reservations at one of DH's favorite restaurants. They serve brunch on Sundays - another favorite thing we like to do.

Since our reservations are fairly early in the afternoon and DH slept in until 9:30, we just did pecan waffles for breakfast. Yum!

Tonight will probably be leftover crab cakes from yesterday and maybe some chocolate fondue with pound cake and strawberries for dessert. Mmmm.....

[Little Bit]

Oh, it's Father's Day?

Actually my dad hates such holidays, so I'm gonna inobtrusively bake some goodies and make them available and leave it at that.

For supper tonight, we'll have a baked chicken dish (sorta Psycho Chicken, but I've had it marinating overnight in the fridge, also I put the bird on a bed of onions and celery and topped the whole thing with more onions and celery.)

[Tiger]

I'm having a barbeque. 7 adults, 3 kids. I'm making "men food"
chicken wings, steak, hot saugage- not light but only once a year!
I'll also have salad, corn, stuffed mushrooms, garlic bread, twice-baked potatoes and eclair cake for dessert. (My DH's favorite)
The salad is a combo of two salads I got off the bb. It's mixed greens, red pepper, asparagus, surgered walnuts, and cranrasins. Orange-ginger dressing. Ok, this is for the "girls."
Happy Father's Day everyone!

[knunes]

Dinner for my dad and my DH will be:
Lobster Thermidor (creamy white sauce with some parm in it with fresh lobster meat in puff pastry shells)
Three Grain Rice Pilaf from CL's June issue
steamed carrots
bread in the bread maker to which I've added some of the "Seeds Plus" mix from the King Arthur catalog
Lemonade Cake from a couple of months ago---I'll probably do the sheet cake like I did last time---it was so yummy.

[BosunsWife]

Its just DH, DD and myself this year. Since I'm currently 39 weeks pregnant I don't have energy for much. We are having grilled salmon, roasted white baby potatoes and steamed broccoli - some of DH's favorites. We aren't big dessert people, but maybe we'll have some vanilla ice cream with grilled pineapple.

[mmtibbs]

Well, actually, our supper club is meeting tonight--the day worked out fine for all involved. We plan a grilled rosemary garlic flank steak from an Epicurious recipe, bourbon glazed salmon, the mushroom and sweet potato gratin, couscous with mixed fresh herbs, a meslun salad and triple ginger butternut squash soup. Oh, and lemon sorbet with fresh blueberries for dessert! We have two new couples joining us today as our North Orange County group grows.

[Mamasue]

Our cookout turned into a cookin because of the rain....something new! Menu consisted of:

Poached Seafood Salad (Insalata di Frutta di Mare), recipe from Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen. This was wonderful! I will type out and post later.

Lemon Pear Grilled Chicken from The Stonewall Kitchen Cookbook. I used chicken wings and although it was good, it was like the basic sweet sticky chicken wings recipe that everyone has in their collection.

Garden Salad, potato salad (MIL brought), Braised Fennel
with Balasmic Vinegar, hotdogs, sausages, CL's Texas Sheet Cake, and CL's Butterscotch Bars.

[AZLorena]

We're about to put the chicken wings in the smoker.

Lorena

[boisewinesnob]

DH took the boys fishing, so I am making the strawberry-applesauce cake from the Cake Doctor. Oh yeah, and for dinner...a chicken recipe from my Thai cookbook and corn on the cob.
I wish we had some of that rain that everybody seems to be getting! It was around 100 yesterday and will probably get that hot today

Suzy

[sushibones]

My DH requested the Black Bean Taco Salad with Lime Vinaigrette (July 2000). This is one of our favorites, and it's been very hot here. Colossal shrimp were on sale, so in a flash of inspiration, I decided to marinate some shrimp in one of the chipotle marinades recipes floating around, grill them, and substitute them for the chicken in the salad. Haven't made it yet, so will have to see how it turns out.

[karen w]

My 2DS's and DD made breakfast for DH this morning(while DH filmed the commotion...uhmm, I mean cooking!) The three of them(6,4,and almost 3 years old!) made the giant puffed pancake from Mollie Katzen's Honest Pretzels(with a little help from mom, of course!!). I made up a saute of sliced bananas in a little butter with some cinnamon, brown sugar, vanilla, lemon zest, and chopped walnuts to top the pancake along with some fresh berries that went over real well. The kids drew a bunch of pictures yesterday while DH was at work of "their favorite things to do with Daddy." I put in the words, and made it into a book which the kids gave to DH this morning along with a little gift.

Tonight we all went out for pizza and ice cream! All in all a successful day!

Karen

[vbak]

WOW!! it sounds like we all had a very full-filling day with so many varied menus.. Glad everyones' day was successful. Vicky


KarenW- I remember when we celebrated Father's Day like your family is doing now. Miss those days. Seriously.

[jazzyjas]

I made coconut shrimp with pinapple salsa, also mango salsa, yellow (saffron) rice, sugar snap peas and salad. For dessert we had lemon mousse with raspberries. Dad seemed to enjoy it. The weather was perfect for eating out side.

jas

[Peggy C.]

I had dinner for my Dad, DH= and myself. It was very relaxing. We grilled the spicy pork tenerloin from 11-01 (I think), 2tone roasted potatoes and a squash and zucc mix. I also made a chocolate cake from the recipe finder. Very yummy and colorful!

[dixie]

grilled teriyaki pork tenderloin, garlic mashed potatoes, roasted asparagus, spinach salad and best of all....banana pudding!

[SueK]

I made lime-marinated grilled chicken, CL potato salad, the CL Fiery Baked Beans, corn on the cob, CL Creamy Ceasar Salad with croutons, and for dessert, I made a berry streusel pie from the new issue of Bon Appetit. I had never made a pie from scratch before ( ) and it turned out great, so I was pretty psyched.

[sneezles]

DH wanted meatloaf so I made Double Cheese Meatloaf from the CL Complete, served with Four Cheese Macaroni (I was in a cheesey mood ) and fresh English peas. For dessert it was Fudgy Brownies from July '02, topped with Bell Homemade Vanilla.

[kathy123]

We had grilled steak, asparagus, and store bought thai eggland salad. Nothing to exciting but it tasted great.

The poached salmon salad sounds great! I look forward to seeing the recipe.

[pilgrim719]

sneezles, were the Fudgy Brownies really fudgy? I love brownies, but tend to stick with the boxed mixes since I haven't found a good fudgy scratch brownie recipe. I've tried other CL brownie recipes, and I liked most of them, but they were more of a cakey brownie.
Thanks
Kari

[valchemist]

Peeps,

are you out there? Is that Silver Palate Brownie recipe you posted a while back really fudgy? I have been meaning to try it, and I actually have all the ingredients.

I loooove fudgy brownies. I don't like air in my brownies. who wants to eat air when you could be eating dense fudgy chocolate?

Val

[sneezles]

Originally posted by pilgrim719
sneezles, were the Fudgy Brownies really fudgy?
Thanks
Kari

Kari,
They were not what I call "fudgy". Not like the boxed ones. They were not "airy" either and I thought them a bit dry so I served them with the ice cream. But DH and DSs #2 & #3 all liked them . I never said it was a light recipe.

[Peeps]

Originally posted by valchemist
Peeps,

are you out there? Is that Silver Palate Brownie recipe you posted a while back really fudgy? I have been meaning to try it, and I actually have all the ingredients.

I loooove fudgy brownies. I don't like air in my brownies. who wants to eat air when you could be eating dense fudgy chocolate?

Val

Oh yes, they are super fudgy, dense, chewy, chocolately goodness. You can also make them more/less fudgy by how much you underbake them - but they are very fudgy regardless (with a thin crackly top sometimes). Ooops - drooling on my keyboard there thinking about these! If you are a fudgy brownie type person and are willing to ignore the fat/calories in this recipe - go for it! They are divine.

[valchemist]

oh, great!!!

they'll be next up after my very healthy Raspberry Meringue Pie later this week.

Here is the recipe...

Let me know if you try 'em Kari.


* Exported from MasterCook *

Silver Palate Brownies

Recipe By :
Serving Size : 12 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Desserts

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
1/2 lb unsalted butter
4 ozs unsweetened chocolate
4 eggs
2 c sugar
1/2 c unbleached flour
1 tsp vanilla
2/3 c walnuts -- coarsely chopped

Melt butter and chocolate together. Set aside and cool to room temperature. Meanwhile, beat eggs and sugar until thick and lemon colored. Beat in vanilla. Fold chocolate into eggs. Mix thoroughly. Sift flour and fold into until just blended. Fold in walnuts. Pour into greased floured 9x12 pan. Bake 25 minutes at 350 degrees until center is just set. Cool 30 minutes before cutting.

Source:
"Silver Palate"

Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 354 Calories; 22g Fat (53.3% calories from fat); 3g Protein; 40g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 104mg Cholesterol; 22mg Sodium. Exchanges: 1/2 Grain(Starch); 1/2 Lean Meat; 4 Fat; 2 Other Carbohydrates.

[pilgrim719]

mmmmm those brownies sound really yummy! I will definitely have to try them, but I can't this week since I have some bananas ripening as we speak -- been waiting on them to ripen so I can make a cake per DF's request. Sometimes there's a downside to only having 2 people in the house -- fewer opportunities to try dessert recipes.

sneezles, sorry to hear that the Fudgy Brownies aren't all that fudgy. I had my eye on them since I got my July issue this morning. You just mentioned that you never said it was a light recipe -- did I misunderstand and the recipe you used is not from the July '02 CL?

Kari

[sneezles]

Sorry, I meant I didn't tell the guys it was a light recipe!

[valchemist]

I was confused about that statement too. thanks for clearing that up.

[pilgrim719]

Thanks sneezles! Just wanted to be sure we were talking about the same recipe Will your guys not eat the desserts if they know they're light? My DF is pretty good about that stuff, although sometimes he requests a good old-fashioned full-fat dessert from me. I just hate to make something like that if I have a good lightened version...I think I've been brainwashed by these boards! But I must admit some things will never taste the same if they're not full-fat
Kari