It’s always fun to honor dad on Father’s Day. Here at our house we like to do something fun for Father’s Day meals as part of our celebration. We don’t have the same thing every year per say, we just usually ask Mr. T. what he wants, and we go with that!
This year, We’re going to chicken breasts in the crockpot with root veggies (just throw everything in with about 1/4 C veggie broth and cook for 4hrs on med) and a big salad. Desert is not yet decided. When I asked him he said “Give me some time on that one”. So, hopefully he’ll come up with something good!
Everyone is different though, so, here are some other tasty recipes for foods Dad will really love this Father’s Day!
The Classic Steak and Baked Potato Dinner
A lot of guys love a good steak and while it’s an easy meal to cook, it can be a hard one to get just right. Here are some instructions on how to cook a great steak. And, if you don’t have a grill; almost essential for cooking a great steak, you can always make that part of his present (you can even save money with a Home Depot coupon!).
As far as the baked potato. The secret to a tasty baked potato is to pierce it with a fork all over and then, rub it with salted olive oil all over it’s skin. Place on the baking rack and bake for about 40-50 min at 350.
How About a Lobster Bake?
We Mainers love a good lobster bake, and father’s day can be the perfect day to head to the beach (or your backyard) and cook up a tasty seafood meal. Its easy, and all you need is a giant pot, some salt water, the lobster, shell fish, some corn on the cob, and lots of lemon butter. YUM!!
If you really want to throw a big bash, add the steak and baked potato above, and you’ve got surf and turf!
And For Desert…
Even though Mr. T. doesn’t yet know what he wants for desert this year, we have some great ideas that can be fun and are always extra yummy.
Chocolate Covered Strawberries
You’ll need a bag of milk chocolate chips or candy bars, and strawberries. Also some waxed paper.
Melt the chocolate in a double boiler and then dunk the strawberries. Place on waxed paper to dry.
Giant Decorated Cookies
Use your favorite chocolate chip recipe but make the cookies really big. flatten out the dough a bit so they don’t mound up and bake watching carefully as they’ll take a bit longer than normal.
Then make butter cream icing (1/2C butter 3 C powdered sugar, 2t vanilla and 3-5 T milk) and use food coloring to make it the color you want (or just use white). You can decorate further with sprinkles, m & ms, whatever else you can think of!
Other Ideas….
His favorite pie, a big cake, a banana split, ice cream cake…anything that’s his favorite.
Whatever you cook though, be sure to cook it with lots of love for dad and he’s sure to enjoy it all.