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Smoked oysters in a can - my dad, brother and I can sit around and eat two cans in 5 minutes, while my mom looks on with her nose wrinkled in disgust.

Macaroni and cheese with cut-up hot dogs - Dad's dinner of choice when he was in charge of the cooking. I realize now how completely disgusting that is, but when we were little, it was a favorite!

Ribeye steak with asparagus and vidalia onions

chinese buffet

haha.. honestly, ramen .. my dad didn't know how to cook a thing, so when my mom was away, he would just make us kids ramen for dinner every day. :)

I'm going to substitute my grandfather in for my dad, and say that it's good ol' Low Country cuisine- okra and tomatoes or shrimp and grits.

game birds... duck and geese mostly

grilled chicken wings.

Ham salad
Dad cut the remnants off the Easter ham before mom made pea soup with the bone. He kept a hand-cranked meat grinder under the sink. He would put the ham through the grinder and combine it with pickle relish, mayo and mustard according to his secret recipe (which he made up as he went along.) He liked his cold ham salad sandwiches with beer. We got ours with root beer.

Liver and onions. Every once in a while my mom would make them for him. She thought they were disgusting and has a very sensitive gag reflex, so she'd often have to leave the kitchen in the middle of cooking them.

My dad has totally mastered salmon chowder. It's amazing!!!

canned smoked oysters

Miller High Life

Scotch

German food. Sauerbraten with ginger snap gravy, spaetzle, potato dumplings, potato pancakes, red cabbage. For the past 80 years our family have gathered every New Year's day for a traditional German meal. It has become everyone's (even the non Germans!) favorite meal of the year!

Although I've always helped out - the tradition was quickly handed to me last year when my father was in the hospital over the holiday. As hectic as it was (80 year family tradition + cooking for 30 people + no actual recipes + a little too much champagne the night before) it is one of my best memories in the kitchen & with my family.

For drinks, straight up Gin martini with olives. We tease that the reason I love olives (and gin for that matter) is because of all the ones I would eat from my father's martinis as a kid.

Roast beef. I'm pretty good with most things, but I've never quite gotten the big hunk o'meat quite the same as he used to. I'll keep trying, though.

Every Saturday for lunch, my dad ate Sardines with onions, on crackers. Ewwwwww. Funny though, I loved it then.

Pizza, he always takes us for pizza

Malt balls. That's what we always gave him for Father's Day. To this day, I don't know whether he liked them. I'm the youngest and was just following the lead of the others.

steak on the grill and baked potato

Corn Chowder.

Arroz Dulce (Rice Pudding).

My dad is a good cook but usually my mom does most of the cooking in the house and my dad loves her cooking (its great). One dish they don't agree on is arroz dulce. Both my parents (and now I too) make Spanish-style rice pudding for holidays, family gatherings and occasionally on a whim but though the most health-conscious of the family Papi likes his rice pudding sweeter than the rest of us can tolerate, so sometimes he just makes his own, and uses a much more elaborate method than Mami and I.

Mami and I add the sugar, rice and milk maybe some orange zest, cook for 20 minutes, done. I'm not even sure what Papi's method entails, but the rice is cooked twice, and the milk is first flavored with orange peels and whole cinnamon sticks... Did I mention that Papi's motto is "If its worth doing, its worth doing right?"

I'd have to say popcorn balls, he made the best, I haven't found any that good since my childhood. Alas, he is no longer here to make them.

Hmm...a toughie. I would have to say anything "burnt". He has a tendency to burn everything (and admits it). Another were his infamous peanut butter and jelly sandwichs with a slice of cheese in the middle (Oh how I hated when he made my lunch when I was little). Also those small bags popcorn remind me of the times he took us to watch the Fireworks on the 4th of July.

chicken

no strong food associations with my dad, but my grandfather always broiled a T-bone steak

spaghetti with meat sauce and/or cornish pasties

Espresso with lemon and sweet foods (such as caramel cake, chocolate and/or chocolate biscuits) sprinkled with sea salt - for the longest time, he had been the only person I knew who ever did these things (I'm talking some 30 years ago).

Finger Steaks with Garlic and onion sauce.... basically onions and garlic chopped up and cooked in lots of butter for about an hour...

Beer...when my sister and I were little, my dad used to trail around with us at Halloween. While we would ring the doorbell and say "trick or treat!" he would stand out at the curb and occasionally yell, "trick or beer!"

Canned peaches in milk...a trick he devised to get us to drink our milk at dinner when we were little.

I would have to say Hot Dogs. My father will go out of his way to have a great hot dog. He even went on a vacation with all the hot dog places he wanted to eat at on a map. I think he ate at 7 different places and kept the menus from them all. He loves hot dogs.

This is kinda random, but Bojangles' sausage biscuits. He's been a vegetarian for at least 10 years now, and he once told me that that's the only type of meat he ever craves. Also nutella.

limburger cheese and rye bread,......when we were little he used to chase us around the house making like he was going to make us eat that stinky cheese...lol

Coffee

A well-done steak ~ his favorite.

Grilled baloney and cheese sandwiches. Breakfast for dinner. Hamburgers. Chicken-fried steak.

pot roast with mashed potatoes and gravy

barbecued flank steak with his special sauce (mostly a mixture of mustard and ketchup if I recall correctly...)
actually, it was the ONLY thing he ever cooked!

barbecued whole chicken on the spit of the grill - delicious!

Would definately have to be Lupini beans at Christmas with a glass of my father's homemade wine. Sure miss those times

beer and cigarettes?

is that too honest?

My dad loves fishing in the Lower Deschuttes river so his specialty is barbequed steelhead with an amazing spice-rub marinade combo. And then G&T's to drink with lots of lime!

BEER!

Moxie and Ovaltine. Both have unique characters and are not for the faint of heart.

black olives, he loved them.

I would have to say jalapenos and hot black coffee (most probably not together, but who knows). My dad eats the weirdest combinations of foods.

Liver sausage sandwiches. With home grown tomatoes, when they were in season, with home-pickled green peppers or home-made bread and butter pickles when tomato season was over, and with yellow mustard when the canned goods ran out.

My dad frequently jumped at the chance to drive the twelve (?) hour round trip from southern Connecticut to Maine to pick up fresh caught lobster for dinner.

My Dad introduced my sister and I to steak and lobster early on, and would spear bites of lobster from our plates until we were old enough to defend our plates. I love lobster, and think of my dad.

New England baked beans with pork and molasses. Every saturday the pressure cooker got taken out and the process begins! A canned brown bread along with and Saturday Kung-fu double feature or creature double feature was complete.

I grew up in our family owned resturant with home cooked meals. I remeber everyday coming in from school my Dad would have a plate of veggies mostly stew beef, mashed potato's and corn. My mouth is
watering now just thinking about it.

Courtbullion--a delicious cajun fish soup that he;d make in the outdoor kitchen

my dad died when i was 2, but i have a picture hanging in my room of him helping me hold a hot dog over a fire. although i don't remember it, i think of that picture and my father every single time i eat a hot dog.

Since we are Portuguese I have to say Portuguese sausages. Believe me now that he is older and in the nursing home (MA) with rehab that is all he talks about. ;-) Thanks. Going to see him Sunday for Father's day. I would love to win this for my older brother since he was born on Father's day and loves to cook. Happy Father's Day to everyone.

Kansas City ribeye all the way

Potato salad-My Dad could eat this stuff by the gallon!

beef stew

French bread, hard cheese, red wine.

pancakes, because that's what he cooked for us on Sunday mornings to give my mom and break, and....I always thought his skin smelled like them, too! He passed away when I was 13 and I still miss him.

Chipped beef on toast. It was always on the menu when Dad worked overtime, because it was something we loved but he didn't.

fried fish filets...i once ate so much when i was 5-6 he spent the whole night rubbing my tummy to make me feel better.

Fresh pan fish, wild rabbit and squirrel remind me of my dad simply because it was cheaper for him to hunt for our food back then! Thanks for the giveaway!

shrimp - my dad would make these 'shrimp boils' with everything in it, including cobs of corn, small whole onions, whole potatoes etc - and then would spread newspaper over the table to absorb the mess we'd make from eating.

I wish I could say something fabulous but I wasn't raised by food-ys! When I think of my Dad I think of Diet Dr Pepper.

Beans and cornbread

My dad's favorite was chicken fried steak, gravy, and mashed potatoes. . I always smile remembering that he wouldn't even open up a menu if we were in a restaurant that served this meal. He already knew what he would have.

Blueberries.

Summer sausage and gourmet mustards come to mind as well. His Christmas stocking is always loaded with a wide variety of both. Along with his beloved Kit-Kats.

And Tab....it is ALL that he drinks!

Grilled pork tenderloin -- grilled anything, really -- and good tequila.

my dad, now 86, grilled the BEST bbq ribs.. and fried some mean catfish or whatever fish he might have had fun catching that day.

Every Sunday morning, waffles with maple syrup and sausage.

chocolate biscuits

Hearty Italian dishes, his favorite.

Frito pie, definitely.

I grew up in Canada and my dad drank beer mixed with tomato juice. I guess that's the veggie version of a mimosa.

Grilled pork chops. My dad loves his grill.

Tacos. Dad, a guy from Nebraska originally, was a foodie. We had tacos made at home in Washington DC in the 1950's.

Whoppers

My dad isn't a cook by any stretch. But I grew up practically living off of his iced tea. I still can't make it like he does.

Junk food. My dad's the kind of guy who keeps stocks of chocolate, chips, pretzels, and all other kinds of junk all around the house and office, but it still all slim and annoying.

The next thing that makes me think dad is anything off the grill.

coffee.

Egg omelet sandwiches! He did a quick 2-egg omelet in a tiny cast-iron skillet, put it on toast with mayonnaise and lettuce with salt and pepper. I still make these when I need a quick snack. There's something about that combination that always makes me think of my dad.

Red beans and fried potatoes. Also chocolate souffle.

London broil! Dad would slather it with yellow mustard and lots of cracked pepper, grill it medium rare, and then slice it very thin. On the side, he'd serve grilled Italian peppers and tomatoes. So simple and delicious!

Fried potatoes.

Warm ginger ale

Lasagna - in the old days it was a family favorite for special occasions.

hamburgers on the grill...he could never get enough of them.

grilled stuffed peppers with a french tomato sauce. now thats serious eats.

Wild boar

Dad kicked it old school - vodka martinis.

A big, thick-cut steak reminds me of my father.

Coffee My was a coffee drinker winter, summer fall or spring. He always had coffee somewhere nearby.

Bar-B-Que Oh my he was the best I hope that if I win this book maybe I will learn some secrets to make mine taste somewhat like Dad's did

Yipppeeeee!
I'm hungry!!!

My father was definately a foodie before the term was coined. He was in the restaurant supply business and as a result we were exposed to many and varied foods throughout our childhood.

Occassionally there came through the door a food so disgusting (to children) that I just wanted to puke.

Two of them he 'made' us try were tomato aspic and orange marmalade. To this day I can't see, hear of, smell or (ewww) taste either of these without thinking of him.

Breakfast cereal!

Nobody can grill a steak like my dad!

Rice. My father can eat cups and cups of rice with any meal. After meals he can often be heard saying, "It would of been better with some rice." or "This could also go with rice, right?" And at the end of the meal, if you're lucky, he will flick a rice ball* at you.

*A little gray/blue ball of rice he's secretly rolled between his fingers under the table.

Schlitz beer and gum drops

Scrambled eggs. My dad used to make them with onions and peas, which sounds wierd, but is really good.

Absolut martini up with 3 olives (he only got the olives for me to eat).

my dad cooked our standard weeknight dinner: white rice, grilled meat, steamed veg. soooo boring, but it did the job...

My Dad had a sweet tooth ....but for unusual things . His favorites were HERMITS and FROZEN PUDDING ice cream . He was the only one in the house who liked this stuff and took great joy in eating them .

bordeaux cookies

Whipped Cream Cake. When I was little and my dad would go to Chicago, he'd bring back a wonderfully moist white cake topped with whipped cream frosting. All these years later, I can still remember how it tasted. YUM!!

Rhubarb pie.

Probably cheeseburgers, my dad is a whiz on the grill and takes so much pride in his cookouts, he's the best!

Actually 3 things:
1> Popcorn on the stove with tons of seasoning salt. He made this several times a week after dinner.
2> Fresh peaches that he used to peel and put in the fridge with sugar on them. In the summer he would make us kids homemade peach icecream.
3> Hand-cut french fries with the skins on....YUMMY!