Please help me impress my new man!!!!!!!

lilac_lady

Don't cook him anything! He'll expect you to keep cooking instead of eating out. Well, that's what happened to me. :-)

jackieglasgow

Steak and salad? Or a BBQ? Then he can do his Tarzan impersonation (although without the loincloth, obviously!)

celyn90

You could do something that was either cold (like little tapas dishes) or something like spagetti bologense - you could make the sauce in advance (it always tastes better a day later anyway) and just cook the pasta on the day then reheat the sauce - that way you won;t be in the kitchen for more than fifteen minutes Salad, bread and red wine with it

I'm a great beliver in dinner party food that doesn't need any attention when the guests are around have a great time, cel x

Icey77

lilac_lady wrote: »

Don't cook him anything! He'll expect you to keep cooking instead of eating out. Well, that's what happened to me. :-)

I was brought up to pay my share and I can't afford to be eating out every week. I'm simply not comfortable letting him pay all the time.

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Steak and salad? Or a BBQ? Then he can do his Tarzan impersonation (although without the loincloth, obviously!)

Sadly don't have a BBQ or even a garden for that matter. Also, never quite managed to get the hang of steak. I always manage to smoke out the kitchen and I was kinda aiming for the domestic goddess, effortlessly whipping up something lush for dinner :cool:

Another also I forgot to mention (sorry!) the dinner can't contain any onions in a substantial form as he won't touch them with a barge pole. I think very finely chopped may be OK.

spike7451

The Delicious Magazine is a brilliant source of recipies.
All the one's I've chosen below take under 30 minutes..

http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/

Try these...

Starter:

http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/leek-and-blue-cheese-filo-tartlets-

Main:

http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/sweet-and-sticky-gammon-with-stir-fry-vegetables

Pud:

http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/vanilla-pannacotta-with-rhubarb--

Good luck & enjoy,

Merv

Bogof_Babe

A couple of chicken breasts and a jar of cook-in sauce. The white wine and cream one was lovely when we used to get it before OH turned vegetarian. Serve with mash, oven chips, roasties or even rice.

Have you got a slow cooker?

PasturesNew

What does he normally choose when you eat out? What do you normally choose?

C_Mababejive

M&S dine in for two deals...bluff it that you cooked it

greenbee

Something light. It may not be a seduction meal, but you may both be nervous if it's your first meal in.

angeltreats

Fish is great because you can cook it in only a few minutes and if you get the fishmonger/Asda/whoever to fillet it, you'll have no prep at all. Something like a couple of nice tuna steaks would cook in a minute or two on each side and tuna isn't stinky so your house won't pong of fish.

A nice marinade for tuna is as follows:

Heat 50ml soy sauce with 50ml brown sugar in a small saucepan till the sugar dissolves. Add a clove or two of garlic, chopped finely, and a teaspoon of sesame oil. Marinade the tuna in this for an hour or so.

Then cook the tuna in a grill pan if you have one, or otherwise a frying pan, for about a minute on each side for pink in the middle (which is lovely!) or two minutes for a bit more well done, throw some of the marinade in there too and it will go lovely and sticky.

Serve with a salad (cherry tomatoes, nice leaves, a few spring onions maybe) and some boiled new potatoes tossed in melted butter and Maldon/sea salt or a bit of parsley. Very very little effort.

A pudding that also requires very little effort is Eton mess! Or you could do a golden syrup sponge in the microwave, have it ready to go and it will cook in about seven minutes, just serve it with some bought ice cream. What else... a fruit crumble of some kind would be nice and easy, and you could have it ready to stick in the oven half an hour before you want it.