Father's Day

As you all know, last Sunday was Father’s Day and this year round my sister and I decided to prepare a special something for our Dad. We decided to cook him a four course meal for lunch but we eventually had to reschedule because Dad decided to have a barbecue. Still, that didn’t  knock us off course and so we decided to just prepare two meals, an appetizer and a dessert. Firstly we thought that it wasn't such a great idea but believe me guys, it was a real success.

After poring over cookbooks for a couple of days we finally decided on what to prepare for our Dad. We chose a “Salmon-Tartar” as an appetizer and a farmer’s cheese-poppy cake for dessert. We tried to keep it a secret from him, but that didn’t really work out because he pretty much ran in and out of the kitchen the whole time while we were preparing it.

When preparing the Tartar we pretty much had everything under control. The recipe was pretty easy and it took less than half an hour to cut all the ingredients up into tiny pieces and to mash it up real nicely with different herbs and spices. After having made up our mind about how to present and garnish it on the plates, we could then move on to the cake.

I have to admit that I was most excited about the dessert because it really looked mouthwatering in the cookbook. But there was a little mishap when preparing the pastry, which didn't suprise me that much.Something like that always tends to happen when me and my sister prepare something to eat: we miscalculated the amount of oil needed for the batter and had to pour it all away and start again. The second time it all worked out perfectly fine though and it was really worth the effort. When it was finally done it smelled delicious and the fact that we still had to wait one day (we baked it on Saturday) to find out what it tastes like was simpy cruel.
 

Altogether, father’s day was a huge success. The Tartar tasted awesome together with the toasted bread and the dessert was simply delicious.  I think we really outdid ourselves us this year and we made our Dad really happy. But the problem that comes along with putting that much effort into something – now we need to exceed his expectations again the following year. Fortunately, we still have a bit of time to make our minds up about that….