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Happy Fathers’ Day to all of you incredible, loving, modern dads out there! I’m very lucky to be married to an incredible man who not only does all the ‘manly’ things around our house and for our family – like getting rid of mice and dealing with clogged sinks and toilets – but is also the official stay-at-home parent in our home. He volunteers in the kids’ classrooms, makes lunches and handles boo-boos on a regular basis. I’m an incredibly lucky woman to be married to a real man like mine. So, when it’s Fathers’ Day, I want to pull out all the stops to make sure he feels appreciated and loved. This year, we went with a low-key, family focused day, but hopefully filled with treats like this sunchoke lunch that made dad happy and full.
Morning started out with a second breakfast (I can never wake up before him!) of eggs with flash grilled sweet peppers, spinach and feta.
I kept it really simple because I had a full day of food for him, and unfortunately, his blood sugar can only handle certain combinations. We enjoyed a few rounds of Monopoly on the XBox, the kids smoked both of us, but I was secretly happy as it means that they’re learning the value of money and beginning to grasp the concept of a mortgage (or mortzage as my youngest says). Dad wanted to work on a project, he’s been thinking of a new way to display the kids’ trophies and ribbons and so he spent some time with our oldest doing some woodworking in the garage. I know that this was the sort of thing he remembers fondly about his father and I’m glad that he’s creating some of this for our sons. They’ll cherish it and hopefully do the same with their kids! I’ll post a picture soon, when the project is fully completed.
I had the pool heater on for an early swim, but when we all got hungry I realized that while I had planned a really manly (surf and turf!) and fresh grilled dinner for tonight with my dad, I hadn’t put any thought into lunch. That’s when I remembered I had a container of sunchokes in the fridge and some pre-grilled chicken.
If you’ve never tried sunchokes before, these are fun little tubers to put on your must-try list next time you run across them. A friend of mine shared them with me a few years ago because they are easy to grow, delicious and have plenty of benefits that are so much better than just plain old potatoes. Sometimes called Jerusalem artichokes, these funny looking foods are high in fiber and are a good source of potassium, iron and small amounts of vitamins C, E and A. Check out this really useful site from the BBC for more information on this interesting root vegetable. http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/glossary/jerusalem-artichoke
I have made sunchokes in a variety of ways, pretty much anything you do with potatoes you can do with these little sunchokes. This recipe is very simple, fast and extremely satiating, particularly if you are generally on a low-carb and/or low sugar diet because this gets very close to tasting like steak fries.
