Father's Day Brunch

Brunch at home

It's Father's Day today and me and mom started our prep for brunch. We decided the day before what we were going to have. So there were pancakes, apples and celery (Dad's fav), scrambled eggs, hash browns, tomatoes, cucumber, rocket leaves, pickled onions, cold cuts and its condiments.

I made the cold platter and pancakes whilst mom did the eggs, hash browns and apples.

Cold Platter

Cucumbers and tomatoes with cracked black pepper, then sprinkled Maldon salt on both. Laid the chicken ham, rocket leaves and placed the onions in the middle. We had Jalapenos as well but left that to the side for my bro whose more adventurous with his tolerance for heat. Either way Dad and bro really enjoyed the cold platter. The pickled onions go really well with the cold cuts and to top it up - some whole grained mustard. Yum. The morning-afternoon was spent with good food and good conversation.

Soup Course

Supper was prepared at home as well. Initially we thought of having an early dinner since it was Sunday but we were still reminded of brunch by our rumbling tummy (overworking because of all that we ate) that we decided to have supper instead. We had Cream of Mushroom with dinner rolls. Followed by panfried chicken legs with potato wedges and creamed spinach. For dessert we had brownie cake.

Main Course

I prepared the dinner rolls the night before so they were proving in the oven. Soup was done by 7pm and i started pre-heating the oven (without the rolls inside of course !) Marinated chicken marylands (deboned) were to be panfried and potato wedges baked in the oven. Mom started her creamed spinach and it was so quick and delicious.

The brownie cake from Polar Cakes was quite a disappointment. It was really hard even after bringing it to room temperature. And the cake was dry. It was too bad we didn't have ice-cream. But luckily Dad was too stuffed for dessert, so he had a tiny weeny slice and didn't complain.

Happy Father's Day Dad !