In my opinion, food on Father’s Day should be all about
simplicity. I know it is Dad’s day but I
don’t want to make too much extra work for myself. Bear and Bee will definitely want to help so
I plan on keeping everything easy but at the same time very tasty.
One of our favourite food related past times as a family is
happy hour. I have written about what
our family does for happy hour in a past post on the threefootcooks blog. While we don’t often include ‘adult drinks’
in our version of happy hour we do always have good cheese and crackers.
To make happy hour a bit more festive for Father’s Day, Bear
and Bee are going to help make crackers and dip to serve with the cheese. This is what we practiced to prepare on the
day.
Father’s Day Crackers and Dips
Serves 4-6
Ingredients
Crackers
2 slices of
mountain bread
Olive oil
Salsa
125g can
corn kernels, drained
1 tomato,
chopped
½ small red
onion, finely chopped
1 tablespoon
olive oil
½ lime,
juiced
French Onion Dip
1 slice of short
cut bacon, fried and finely chopped
½ cup sour
cream
½ packet
(15g) French onion soup mix
1 tablespoon
chopped parsley
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
2. Arrange bread on baking trays and brush with
oil. Bake for 5 minutes.
3. Allow bread to cool and break into corn chip
sized pieces. This is a great job to give younger children but you may need to
have spare ones as they tend to break the chips into tiny pieces. Probably because it makes such a good sound!
4. For Salsa. Combine all ingredients in a bowl and
mix gently. You may also like to add ½ a chopped avocado. Juicing citrus fruit is a great skill for
children to practice. It is a tricky
movement so you may need to show them quite a few times.
5. For French onion dip. Combine cream, soup mix
and parsley in a bowl. Mix well and sprinkle with bacon.
6. Serve crackers, salsa and dip on a platter with
vintage or tasty cheese.
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