Wishing a very happy father's day to all the dads out there.
My wife and kids made me a nice breakfast of pancakes, scrambled eggs and bacon; then I went to visit my dad and give him a card with a train on it (he is an avid model railroader), soon my wife and eldest daughter will have prepared the central NY standard summer feast consisting of Hamburgers (ordinarily this would also include Hoffman's Hotdogs, but we didn't get any this time), Salt Potatoes, Grandma Brown's Baked Beans and Tossed Salad*; and we will settle in to watching season one of Hogans Heroes and, perhaps, season one of Stargate SG-1.
On a personal note, my illness seems to be mostly gone now with just a few lingering, annoying effects so I will be resuming my regular blogging probably tomorrow.
*Potato Salad, Macaroni Salad, Coleslaw, Corn on the Cob, and Steamed Clams are also common for the CNY summer feast, but it's too early for Corn or Clams and with Salt Potatoes we usually opt out of the Potato and Macaroni Salads except in cases of large gatherings; I think we just overlooked the Coleslaw. Everyone loves Mona's Coleslaw.
Sounds like a heck of a feast, and you can't go wrong with Hogan's Heroes. :)
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you're feeling better!
Happy Father's Day, sir!
ReplyDeleteThe grub list sounds tempting, never had clams though??
ReplyDeleteChrist I'm hungry now.
ReplyDelete@Ray You guys don't eat clams in the UK? Clambakes are a summer tradition here in the northeast US and we have 2 main variants of clam chowder. Since the northeast US is the part most culturally similar to the UK (it is still called "New England" after all) I would have figured that such a common food was an import from the mother country; particularly considering it's availability there too. The same can't be said of corn (Maize) or potatoes (although, I am told they were one of the more successfully introduced new world crops to Europe, and the wide variety of recipes from Germany that involve potatoes as well as the Irish potato famine would seem to indicate this is true).
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