This is not a post on recipes that you can cook for Father’s Day. Rather, this is a ‘discussion’ of my attempt to find the perfect meal for my husband for Father’s Day. In general my kids do the planning of Father’s and Mother’s Day meals. This often involves various forms of chicken nuggets, fries, pancakes or fish sticks. But this year I decided that I was going to step it up a notch. I was going to make a full course meal, (with the help of the kids of course) for my husband for Father’s Day.
Of course if you know anything about me, you know that I love to cook. I almost never repeat a recipe except for a few treasured family favorites and some super easy things that I can throw together at the last minute. This year, I decided to unleash my culinary expertise with some new and exciting dish. So the question is. . .what is the perfect ‘manly’ food for Father’s Day?
I fist went to one of my favorite websites, Family Fun, to go see what they have cooking for Father’s Day. They have very cute cakes, and crackers decorated to look like shirts and ties. Hmmm. . .they look like fun, but none of these strike me as manly enough for my husband.
I then turned to one of my husband’s friends who said the ultimate in manly food is barbecue. That’s great. Barbecue is the perfect manly food. I can hear the grunting now. Except that we haven’t attempted to barbecue since the fire department asked us to stop barbecuing on the fire escape. Something about a fire hazard. Besides, my husband does all the grilling which means that he would have to cook his own Father’s Day meal and that seems. . .well, just wrong. Back to square one.
I was then at a friend’s house who was talking about their Father’s Day menu. They’re having vegetables with rice, and broiled chicken. Sounds healthy. I guess technically healthy food would be manly since you have to eat healthy food in order to stay fit and get those fabulous abs. But something tells me that my husband would be less than thrilled with such a low fat meal containing no cheese.
My oldest daughter suggested that a manly meal was anything that included a sports show. If you can eat it and watch a good game–it’s manly. I can buy that. But it doesn’t help me with selecting the perfect recipe.
So now Father’s Day is upon me and I am going to make the same thing that I’ve made for the last several years for Father’s Day. It is my husband’s favorite: chicken enchiladas, corn bread and lemon cake for dessert. Despite my quest I have discovered that this is the perfect meal for my husband for Father’s Day. First of all, it is his favorite. Secondly, he doesn’t remember that we made it last year! Thirdly, he’ll get a little enchilada sauce on his shirt no doubt, but he can watch sports while eating it.