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My sister: Guacamole
My mom: Chicken packs on the grill or oven
My sister-in-law: Cheesy potatoes, which I hate (I love her though)

What is a chicken pack?

Oh goodness, when my dad is left to his own devices, he thinks a perfect meal is a half pound of pasta mixed with a can (yes, I know, it's an atrocity) of peas, and about half a bottle of olive oil. It's a nightmare.
My best friend can only bake one thing, and it's cinnamon cherry oatmeal cookies.
My aunt is the family purveyor of mac and cheese.
My mom makes delicious spaghetti sauce, but she does make once a week, and eats it three out of seven days during said week.

when i was growing up one aunt made a meatloaf to die for, that may be because my grandmother who lived with us hated meatloaf so mom never made it. i had another aunt that made awesome lasagna and every year at christmas she and my uncle would make me a meatless one just big enough for two servings. these days SO makes awesome seafood pasta and great grilled mussels and crab. He also does a Very tasty rotesserie chicken. For a guy with little sense of taste, he cooks very well. although when we have guests i have to adjust the seasonings since he can be a little heavy hande with the salt. but for just us its great.

My mother-in-law - pineapple chicken. It's chicken pieces smothered with store-bought BBQ sauce, with a tin of pineapple chunks, baked to death. Whenever we're invited to her house for a meal, we know it's going to be a pineapple chicken (no matter what the season or the occasion is).

@Jerzee - I googled chicken pack and it's what I thought it might be - a meal wrapped and baked in a foil pack in the oven (grill would work, too).

When I was a girl scout leader we used to do hamburger, potato slices, mushrooms, carrot slices, onions & garlic, seasonings (forget what else) in foil packs and cook on an open fire. Similar.

I found one chicken recipe that Aunt Shamdy would like.

http://www.bigoven.com/159831-Foil-Pack-Chicken-and-Dressing-Dinner-recipe.html

Dad: Pizza
Sister-in-law: Potato mushroom soup casserole
Neighbor: Carne Asada and Green Chilies
Hubby: Beer Can Chicken

Now I am hungry thank you all very much!

I'm so severely traumatised by my MIL's pineapple chicken that I forgot to write about other people:-)

My father-in-law - chicken cutlets, thinly sliced, breaded and pan-fried. These are so much better than the above-mentioned pineapple chicken, even though I seldom eat breaded anything (not a big fan).

My sister-in-law - vegetable salad.

My husband - breakfast in general, eggs and potato hash (or it's cousin, sweet potato hash), in particular. So very good! Come to think of it, my husband can cook more (and better) than anybody else in his family!

A chicken pack is a foil pouch containing 1 chicken breast, garlic, red skins, onion, olive oil, s+p. Sometimes we add rosemary, sometimes we do italian dressing, sometimes we omit the potatoes and add lemons, parsley and chopped tomato. You just make one per person.

I'm sure you guys have done this and call it something different. We call them chicken packs! :)

@czken, I'm glad that my description of Max's vile offerings amused you! It did occur to me that Max wouldn't be nearly as impressed were he to stumble across this site and read my comments (in fact, he'd be even less impressed to realise that I've made disparaging comments about his culinary technique in other serious eats posts over the years as well). Oh well, I suppose you reap what you sew - he once gave me a filled cookie, where the 'surprise' filling was a slimy lump of pickled herring!

My grandmother ALWAYS cooks the exact same meal. For the appetizer, matzoh ball soup, main course, stuffed cabbage, and for dessert, the most unappetizing brownies the world has ever seen.