Fathers Day coming up! What are you fixing (or having fixed for you).
I happen to be at my father's for a couple of days and am making him his favorite meal.
Roast beef - rare
Roasted baby potatoes and onions with a balsamic glaze
Roasted asparagus
Not sure about dessert yet, but this seems pretty fool proof.
How about you!
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You are much more spontaneous than I!
Have fun! 
My nieces (one lives up in the wine country, the other in Boston) are sending my brother a gift certificate to his favorite Italian restaurant here. The plan is a web cam get-together over part of the meal. Time zones and technology communication. I'm looking forward to see how it goes.
Hope both you and your brother are doing well.
Doing a web cam with my sister and perhaps some of the grandkids is something that I should consider.
Nice that you get to share the meal with him.
We've been trying to celebrate my nephew's birthday since Memorial Day, but various things (his odd work schedule, kids' activities, his wife's new job) keep interfering.
Rare roast beef...
There is a local butcher that sells farm raised, completely organic beef. Since there will only be a small group, I think I can splurge on a really good cut of meat.
I love the rare roast beef and just happen to have some sour cream and horseradish, which is the sauce I want with mine!
Unfortunately, my nephew's wife is going to New York that evening for training for her new job; the triplet boys have a 6 p.m. baseball game. We need to eat early because otherwise my other niece's two-year-old twins fall apart and and my niece has to get them home and to bed before we eat.
We've been cooking endlessly as the garden stuff comes in, both from our yard and the Farmers Market - so we are going to use it as a "break from cooking and doing dishes" day!
How did you like your trip? Love Ocracoke, or what?! We will probably spend much of October there...
of the produce while out in your neck of the woods.
One of the best meals we had on this trip was in Charleston. I had the vegetable plate with four servings of vegetable that were indescribably delicious. BTW, who knew grits were considered a vegetable!
Loved Ocracoke and loved Pam's Pelican. That woman fixes a phenomenal breakfast. She had bikes, so we took a very long ride down to the beach and slept like babies. The ride all the way up through the outer banks was spectacular, of course. Perfect weather, windsurfers, little traffic, calm waters on the ferry. I hope to get back again in the not too distant future.
I've kind of done a bit of a Johnny Appleseed thing with tomato varieties, I guess!
And you can roast those potatoes with it until they are brown and crisp.
Yum! Enjoy your dinner and your dad!
but he usually insists on steamed, he is so set in his ways. but it will be a tasty meal regardless and i'm hoping to kick his ass at cribbage after we're done eating
I live with one of those, but over the years I have gotten him to be more adventurous.
Still, we can walk into just about any restaurant anywhere, and I can tell you exactly what he is going to order.
Good luck at the cribbage game!
I can't imagine eating broccoli but not liking cauliflower. Cauliflower rocks. Then again, I hate bell peppers but love every other pepper under the sun, so I guess I answered my own question .
I think managing a restaurant is one of the hardest jobs in the world and I toast you for doing it.
I love to cook and have recently been tossing around the idea of a "bed and dinner" (as opposed to breakfast). I think there might be a market for people that want to visit an area, then come back to the place they are staying for a nice dinner. My other fantasies have revolved around taking people out on evening cruises where they are served dinner.
But to do it on such a large scale like you do is intimidating and I am impressed.
Congratulations to your son. And bless people like the both of you. The world needs to be fed and there is no point in eating bad food if you don't have to.
I'm so glad you are living your dream 
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Rib-eye steaks with my signature pasta and white sauce seasoned with lemon and onions (the white sauce on the pasta, the steaks remain merely marinated ) . Obviously a nice salad to go along - I love Green Goddess dressing.
Oh and some good homemade bread from my wonderful new bread machine that I am having a great deal of fun using
There is a butcher out here by my dad's that sells really good beef. While I have pretty much lost my taste for red meat, I think this one is going to be good.
Glad you like your bread machine. I have never had one, but I do love some fresh bread.
Hope you are doing well. We are not quite home yet, but should be shortly.
We arrived back in the area on Monday, but the boat is not ready. Engine is out, everything is torn apart.
So it looks like Monday (fingers crossed).
I want to see my new stove!!
You have to take a pic of the new stove in its new home. Can't wait to hear about all the great stuff you are going to make in it and on it. . I am betting bread will be so much easier now amongst other things.
Here's to the new stove.
We have made it back to the marina area, but the boat is not ready. 
We are hoping for Monday or Tuesday, but we shall see. Currently staying with a friend for a few nights.
Hope you are well and have a great time with your brother tomorrow.
Looks like my other brother is going to join in. He'll be with his sons and assorted family in Austin. My brother here is working out how to have it all fed (no pun intended) to his TV. Much bigger screen. Could be a hoot.
Hey to your DH.
