{Food Dish} Menu: Father’s Day Feast

Men love food. Period. If you want your husband/dad/grandpa/man to have a happy Father’s Day, feed him.

Here’s a fun menu of manly meals to serve for the perfect Father’s Day feast.


Photo from Patio Daddio BBQ.
Bacon Cinnamon Rolls
Bacon. Yum.
Cinnamon rolls. Delish.
Bacon + cinnamon rolls = mind blowing.
Bacon is the trendy thing to add to sweets these days. Make his morning with these mouth-watering bacon cinnamon rolls.



Photo from Allison Eats.
BBQ Ribs with Root Beer Sauce
There are vegetarian men out there, I get it, but I’m pretty sure most men love meat. What would Father’s Day be without the biggest, juiciest, rack of barbecued ribs? And even better, they're marinated in root beer.

 

{Food Dish} Gluten-free Food Storage Recipes

Michelle Snow has a different take on food storage. Rather than storing food in bulk quantities that are difficult to take with you in an emergency, she stores all the ingredients for each meal in an individual sack, including the water necessary to cook it. This way, she knows she has everything she needs and never runs into surprises. 

"We lived on food storage for a year, and you would not believe what we had too much of and too little of—when you come upstairs saying, 'Honey, guess what, this is our last bag of this,'" she said.

Each meal makes enough food for 6-8 adults. She provided these two recipes from her book Gluten-Free Food Storage: It’s in the Bag! exclusively for LDS Living readers.


Caribbean Chicken and Rice

5 cups water

Resealable bag:
2 cups rice

Resealable bag:
2 tsp. garlic powder
1 tsp. onion powder
½ tsp. black pepper
4 Tbsp. brown sugar
2 Tbsp. dried celery
¼ cup dried bell peppers
1 Tbsp. dried parsley
1 tsp. thyme
1 tsp. curry powder
1 Tbsp. chives
2 Tbsp. dried onion
2 gluten free chicken bouillon cubes or 2 teaspoons granules
1 (15-oz.) can black-eyed peas, drained
1 (13-oz.) can chicken meat, including broth or 1 pint home-canned chicken breast

To cook rice: In a heavy bottomed saucepan with a tight-fitting lid, place 3 cups water and add 2 cups rice. Boil on high heat for 15 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside for 10 minutes, then fluff. Do not lift the lid while rice is resting. If you have a rice cooker, just add water and rice and depress the lever. Fluff rice when lever pops up.

{Food Dish} Cliché Mormon Bridal Shower Menu

Wedding season is upon us (already?!) and it’s time to start planning the showers. Mormons only have to attend a few hundred of these every summer, but at least there’s food, right? However, over my years of attendance, I’ve noticed the same types of food are served and I’d like to see things mixed up a bit.

Does this menu sound familiar: Chicken salad croissants, fruit platter, spinach strawberry salad, mint brownies, and a fruit punch concoction made with Sprite? Of course it does.

I don’t want to throw tradition completely out the window, but here’s a spiced up menu for the bridal (and baby) shower classics.


Photo from Our Best Bites.
Old: Chicken Salad Croissant
New: Teriyaki Chicken Sandwich



Photo from Heat Oven to 350.
Old: Fruit Platter
New: Fruit Salsa with Cinnamon Chips