Foods 3

Every family has a primary cook or a specialty dish that one person cooks. Some families like to meet at a relative’s house or host a get together at their own home. No matter who cooks or where you eat, it is always nice to get together and share memories with one another.

My dad is the primary cook in our family. He loves to try new foods or have us try his new dishes. He is the type of person that opens a foreign cook book looks at a picture and tries to make that food. The food isn’t always so delicious but it makes for great dinner conversation. He has his specialty dishes though that are absolutely amazing. He makes the best barbeque smoked ribs and smoked turkey around. Some of my favorite foods that he makes are his chicken parmesan, chicken salad, steak, and seafood dinners.

At a family get-together or event my dad tends to keep things very traditional. He loves to barbeque and grill out so we often have a bunch of hamburgers, hotdogs and brats with potato salad, macaroni salad, and other summer side items. Most of our family events happen from the spring to the fall so it always good weather for a barbeque.

Most of my family get-togethers take place at my parent’s house or my aunt’s house, just four houses down the street. It’s easy that way because family members can park at our house and walk there or vice versa. When we have our family dinners the menu is usually always the same. The family has grown to expect certain foods to be at every gathering. We kind of do a potluck type of dinner where each member of the family brings their specialty dish or dessert and we all dig in.

These dishes are so important to me and the rest of the family because they seem to symbolize how well we mesh together and how much we mean to each other. It’s funny, because when someone misses a dinner and their dish is missing the whole family takes notice and talks about the last time they got to eat that particular meal. It’s important to have these family functions because it gives you memories to build and look back on.

All of our family get-togethers haven’t changed as far as the way they are held or the atmosphere that is felt at one. The only thing that has changed is the number of people that attend them. The family keeps growing and growing as the children are getting older and bringing their new husbands, wives and children over for dinner.