So I told my wife, I'll cook this week

[darthsidious]

I wouldn't recommend using store-bought sauce if you're cooking to impresss, especially as homemade sauce is so easy.

For dessert, how about homemade truffles(or bonbons)? Or a flourless chocolate torte with a raspberry sauce? Experience tells me women tend to like these desserts

Originally posted by: thegimp03
Can you barbeque?

Pick up some steaks at the grocery store, season with salt and pepper, grill. Pick up pre-made and packaged garlic bread, read directions on the back, bake in oven. Grab a package of pre-made salad and some dressing. That wouldn't take you more than a half hour to prepare, cook, and have on the table.

Spaghetti is easy too...grab a package of spaghetti noodles, some Ragu/Prego, and a package of ground beef. Fire up the burners, chop up meat and cook til brown, pour Ragu sauce into a sauce pan and heat up, and cook the noodles in boiling water. This takes about 30-45 minutes.

Like chicken? Pick up some chicken breasts at the store, and marinate them in teriyaki sauce, take tinfoil, fold it, throw it on the grill, throw the chicken on the grill and cook for 20 minutes or so...check the chicken by cutting it in half to make sure it's cooked through. Take a package of rice-a-roni and follow the directions, voila. That takes a half hour. Or if you like, just get steamed rice and cook it up and have teriyaki chicken over rice.

 

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: LolaWiz
a favorite and easy thing: roast a chicken with some mashed potatoes and salad.
Get a whole roaster chicken, remove the gizards, etc from the cavity, rinse with cold water.
lay in baking dish, pat dry, liberally rub chicken with olive oil and season with any favorite spices.
Cook per package instructions.
Serve with whatever sides she/you enjoy with a salad and french bread.

Too much work. It's cheaper and easier to pick up the roasted chicken at Costco for $5.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Originally posted by: loup garou

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Spaghetti. Make your regular (her regular) spaghetti and put about about 1/4 cup or so of balsamic vinegar in. For appetizers get some french bread, small rolls about 1.5" in diameter and cut them in 1/4" segments. Put some olive oil in a small dish then put some balsamic vinegar in with the oil. Use the bread for dipping. Grab a good bottle of chianti from your local supermarket, candles, and your fav slow cd. After dinner realize why you two started loving each other. Good ol unadulterated sex.

Judging from the rest of your meal, I was expecting the bold to be "a good bottle of balsamic."

Like vinegar much?

Actually, yeah, I love vinegar. I like things spicy and tangy.

 

[Coquito]

Originally posted by: anxi80
make her my favorite, easy to prepare latin dish: cheerios con azúcar.

Honestly, that is true. It's like they don't sell honey nut cheerios down there. They don't like orange juice either. Orange drink is where it's at.

For the second course, I'd recommend:

pan con mantequilla :thumbsup:

 

[KoolDrew]

Well, what does she like?

 

[thegimp03]

Originally posted by: darthsidious
I wouldn't recommend using store-bought sauce if you're cooking to impresss, especially as homemade sauce is so easy.



Well, I'd use a store-bought sauce because I work and don't have the time or motivation to make the sauce from scratch.

 

[SmoochyTX]

Give us an update OP!

 

[Bryan]

TTIWWP

Food or wife. Your call.

 

[blakeatwork]

Pan Chicken:

1 package of chicken thighs
3-4 large carrots (peeled)
2-3 pieces celery
1 large onion
double handful fresh green beans
2/3 cup chicken stock
2/3 cup water
basil, oregano, garlic
White rice
pan with lid (non stick is better if you have it)

Preheat pan on medium heat, with 1 tbsp olive oil. While pan is heating, dice onion, and chop celery and carrots into bite size pieces. Remove tag ends from beans, and snap in halves or thirds. Remove skin from chicken thighs.

Put thighs in pan, andcook until brown on both sides. Add diced onion, and cook until onion starts to turn brown. Add celery, let cook until it gets bright green. Add carrots and green beans. Let veggies cook until carrots turn bright orange.

Add chicken stock and water together. Add basil, oregano, garlic to taste. Cover pan with lid, and turn to low (2-3). Cook approximately 25 minutes if thawed, and 40 minutes if frozen chicken was used.

Try and ensure rice is ready at the same time as the chicken. If you want to cheat, you can use instant rice instead.

Serve veggies on bed of rice, and drizzle some of the leftover juice in the pan over veggies and rice.

Serves 2

This also works with different vegetable combinations, as I've used everything from broccoli to asparagus... just be sure to accomodate for different cooking times with different veggies.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
day 1: hamburger helper
day 2: leftovers
day 3: cheeseburger helper
day 4: leftovers
day 5: tuna helper

The plus side is that she'll never ask you to cook again.

Lmao


Ausm

 

[MasonLuke]

Originally posted by: neovan

Originally posted by: sixone
It doesn't matter what you cook, as long as you do the dishes afterwards.

The thing is that, I do do the dishes.

man card violation to the max! dude i feel sorry for you.

 

[Martin]

-take two soup bowls, fill them with yoghurt (2% live culture only!) and feta cheese, mix slightly.
-soft-boil four eggs, put 2 them on top the yoghurt/cheese in each soup bowl.
-melt a bit of butter, put some red pepper in it, pour on top of eggs.

Takes 5 minutes to make, and she hasn't had this before...

If you're looking for a slightly larger meal, add this salad:
-Tomatoes (~3)
-onion (~.5)
-roasted red peppers (~2)
-cucumber (~.5)

slice, put in bowl. Add salt, basil, feta cheese, olive oil and balsamic vinegar (god will smite you if you don't use balsamic vinegar).

 

[kumanchu]

steak + baked potatoes +salad

an easy and delicious meal