If you waited until the last minute and can not have a reservation at a nice restaurant or if you (your loved ones with a small meal or a lot of surprise), the romance, of a home cooked, you will earn bonus points in the two figures.
Pat Head Mold (owner of Louisiana businesses Delights, a restaurant consulting company, and the head of Louisiana cooking school) knows what it means to a boy in the kitchen. Cooking or not, he says he can turn any of his "Heroes "with tips and cooking techniques.
Tips for Mold Guy Head Start cooking at home, the selection of recipes that are simple and good taste (easy enough, right?). Guy loves spicy recipes with ingredients and a few steps. But that does not mean that you "Cook half, about half and half your Gal Woo. There are romantic, some rules for cooking." Fortunately, they are easy, "he said.
Do your homework. If you have two or three main aspects:Prescriptions, the proportion of ingredients and shop according to the last week in the supermarket.
Know your batters and sauces. For most dishes, it is all or nothing points and revenues should appropriately. When they say 1 / 4 cup, measure 1 / 4 cup. As he said, stirring constantly, just do it.
Knowing how you try to be prepared is not distracted. - To prepare the recipe usually before his arrival. To follow in yourCamera instructions for cooking and make sure that there is a fire extinguisher nearby. For frying, there are two possibilities. Use a propane fryer outdoors following the safety instructions of the manufacturer, or use an electric deep fryer in a building, structure or covered outdoor use in a on a solid surface or on the floor. Get an automatic fryer is fire is not sexy.
While cooking, especially when you reckon his arrival, wear ovenGloves and the avoidance of alcohol, "said Mold.
Secret: You can remove your romantic dinner for two, without the bank. Mold head can make a three-course spread through its own revenues of about $ 20.
The other secret is that you come here with his confidence.
"It never ceases to surprise me when people say that they eat but not cook. Anyone can with the right degree of confidence to cook," says Mold.
Chef Mary Beth Lawton Johnson offers the following adviceElimination of disaster free dinner for your loved ones: avoiding gaseous foods such as broccoli. Both are uncomfortable and bloated stomach is not usually mean a novel. Instead of trying the path to the bedroom, they will raid your medicine cabinet for Tums.
TLC's Hottest Bachelor Chef Curtis Stone, star of "Take Home Chef," said Woo Women's easier than you think. "There's nothing more personal and intimate conversation at home," he said.
Try these tips BAfor a total stress free experience:
With fresh, seasonal ingredients stick with what is in season. Do not get tomatoes in winter. Instead, the use of succulent roasted pears, nuts and dried fruits such as cherries, apricots or in your favorite dishes. If you are fresh, seasonal ingredients, all you can the best quality.
Get the bank: the fruit section of the supermarket is doing great things for the homechef. Before you select cut and assembled vegetable dishes washed and buy bags of lettuce and spinach. If you prepare a salad or you need a delicious dip for vegetables, pre-cut, you can also have a high quality chilled salad dressing like Mary. In the interest of saving time, eliminating Marie noise, without compromising taste.
Choose a Topic: Remember that not doing a five-course menu is served. Instead, a few hot loadWine and some snacks. If you serve a full three-course menu borders, appetizer, entrée and dessert. In this way, would not receive the task formidable. If you are a beginner in the kitchen, you can also make a salad as a main meal, including a single protein, such as steak, chicken or shrimp. Be creative and think outside of the menu!
Setting the Mood
It is simply carried away. Youwant to emphasize that the two heart shaped by you and not the two dozen balloons. Therefore, given the simplicity of the atmosphere. "Take a sheet with some dishes of Nice, light small candles and put on your favorite music," said the director Curtis said. "If you put something romantic and sensual, in a jazz environment."
Lawton Chief Johnson also recommends a more flexible approach. Live the head, the music hits may not have the desired effect. On the other hand, you do not want the cheese with his love ballads80 years, so choose wisely.
For drinks, iced vodka is paired with oysters a pretty tempting to (start the night and are known to be aphrodisiacs) in combination. With dinner, serves a good chilled white wine or rose, and the table easily with candles flexible only to ensure that no candles are too high. Candles strange shadows.
David Speer, personal sommelier, wine and chocolate, Inc. recommends that a pink champagne served. "The taste of cherries are good and the acidCompliments, "he said." Champagne is also the atmosphere, drinking and feels sexy. Plus you get the bonus of looking good, because you drink something pink, show your soft side. recommends certain brands Speer: Gruet NV Brut Rose for a budget drinker, if not a Pol Roger Brut Rosé, nun Clicquot or Taittinger. If you really try everything, Krug NV Brut Rose want is guaranteed to impress!
Primer
It isEating under control and set the tone. But if you say the wrong thing is that dinner tank in ten seconds flat. Can you guess who wants three words, a woman said her boyfriend - also a day?
"This is not" I love you ',' You're hot "or" Do It Again, "says Mary Jo Fay, author of The Seven Secrets of Love, When Your Perfect Partner fit wrong, and please dear - Not Tonight: The truth about women and sex. "It's' Tell me more! If a girl is not sure that hisGuy is actually listen to her when she said: "Tell me again," built to be heard, not only is it interesting!
Another important issue before you is the door ring your goal for the evening, there is romance and sex? "It's a romantic dinner, a prelude to sex, or is the major long-term relationship, you have always dreamed of?
If sex is the key, then you can refer to sexual messages during the meal ... subtle but stimulating. IfMatch the long term in mind, stay away from any suggestion of sexual innuendo and jokes. Have completed "Even though the night was with love, start) wind your guests (in a negative sense when you put everything she said with sexual innuendo, while they had heard enough, as you two have in common.
To start a chat box suggests Fay:
• What do you think is the most romantic dinner / meal?
• What was your Valentine's Day as romantic as possibledo you remember?
• Who was the first boy you ever wanted to give you a Valentine?
Experts report Lissa Coffey offers this conversation ice-breaker (you can shamelessly) they steal:
• What is reality show favorite and why? "Survivor," "Amazing Race, The Apprentice," "The Bachelor" (or fill in a reality show or others)?
• What is your favorite holiday and why? "
• If you had $ 100,000, and you had to spend 3 days in thisWould you like one?
• What do you remember your birthday again? "
• Who is your favorite author / actor / humanitarian etc, and why? "
• The first car / kiss / crush / work, etc.?
• 2 weeks paid off and a round-trip ticket anywhere in the world - where are you?
Some of his answers are as big as evidence of its priorities and personality. If you say it is on the lookout for the next season of The Bachelor, it is likely that it is not so badyou!
What's not to say a date
But there are some issues on the table (pronunciation-wise) for this special evening anyway. According to a recent survey asking OkCupid, a free online dating site, a day before the no-no and the man when it comes to entertainment.
From 2006 male respondents OkCupid 5060 and users of women on their opinions about what they want, they can ask and should not ask for a first date, the startConversation.
1) Which of these rude questions you would ask a first date?
Do you still live with your parents? - 27.41 percent
They Rebound? - 24.49 percent
Do you have an STD? - 21.20 percent
How many people have stayed with you? - 15.04 percent
How much money do you have? - 6.01
You are on prescription drugs? - 5.84 percent
2) Which of the following six less likelyan appointment to discuss?
Price - 35.61 percent
Gender - 24.39 percent
Politics - 22,14 percent
Religion - 17.86 percent
Overwhelmed yet? Take a deep breath and relax. "What do everything runs on it out, relentlessly," said Paul A. Falzone, CEO of Good and Together Dating. "Express yourself, show your feelings, and think outside of the special person in your life. Gestures speak louder than words to find a way to show you care and are interested;You have arrived. "
Recipes for Romance
Here are some easy to prepare (but easy to WoW) recipes to make your home-meals. You can also search for recipe sites like Epicurious and options of the search filters prepation prepare second recipe (eg, search, easy to cook, bake, etc.).
Head Mold Layered Salad
Ingredients for the salad:
5 cups of romaine lettuce
2 cups chopped seeded tomatoes
1 cup chopped celery
¾Cup chopped red onion
1 ¼ cup frozen English peas, thawed
1 ¾ cup grated cheddar cheese, extra strong
8 strips Applewood smoked bacon, cooked, drained and divided
Ingredients for the vinaigrette:
1 / 3 cup fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
¼ cup chopped parsley
3 tablespoons chopped fresh chives
2 / 3 cup peanut oil Louan
To prepare the salad, arrange lettucea uniform layer on the bottom of a fairly large bowl or other clear bowl, cover evenly with a layer of tomatoes. Arrange celery evenly over the tomatoes, evenly covered with red onions. Put the peas evenly over the onions, cover evenly with cheese. Sprinkle bacon on top.
To prepare dressing, combine juice and next 5 ingredients (through the chives) in a medium bowl stir well. Little by little oil, stirring constantly with a whisk. Just before serving, sprinkle over the salad dressing mixMixture.
Pies Lobster
2 liter and a half 2 tablespoons peanut oil Louan
½ cup chopped onion
1 / 3 cup green bell pepper
¼ cup chopped celery
2 cloves garlic, minced
½ cup dry white wine
1 (8 oz) package cream cheese, soft
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 ½ tsp salt tea
2 teaspoons hot sauce such as Tabasco
1 (1-lb.) Package frozen meat from the tail of the lobster,thawed
1 (15-ounce) package refrigerated crust 9-inch --
Pour 2 ½ liters of oil in a deep fryer, heat to 375 degrees.
Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a large sauté pan over medium-high. Onions, peppers and celery in a pan, fry 3 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Stir in wine, 1 minutes, Cook until the liquid is almost evaporated.
Combine vegetables, cheese and next 4 ingredients, stir well. Fold the lobster mixture, stirring constantly until cheeseto combine. Cut each (9-inch) pastry in half to form a semicircle to 4. Remove using a slotted spoon, place about 1 cup seal lobster mixture in the center of each half of the crust edges to press several times. Press the edges with a fork.
Fried cake at 375 degrees for 5 minutes or until golden brown, turning once. Serve immediately.
Dark chocolate, salads (Courtesy of David Speer, personal sommelier, Wine and Chocolate Inc.)
This salad is very contradictory tastes andTextures.
Ingredients for the salad:
2-3 cups torn mixed greens - many of them bitter vegetables such as endive and radicchio
4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1-2 tbsp balsamic vinegar of good quality
2 tablespoons milk chocolate with high cocoa content 40% mass shaved high
2 tablespoons shaved Pecorino Romano
Kosher salt and pepper to taste
Mix oil and vinegar and pour over vegetables just before serving. Salt and pepper to taste. SprinkleChocolate and cheese in the salad once it is gold-plated
2 servings
Seared ahi tuna with mango salsa
2 steaks, sushi-quality ahi tuna
Marinade ingredients:
¼ cup soy sauce
1 teaspoon minced ginger
1 tablespoon honey
Mango Salsa Ingredients:
1 ripe mango or 2 Manila mangoes, peeled, cored and diced
¼ cup chopped red onion
2 tbsp chopped coriander
V. 2-3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
1-2Teaspoon chopped jalapeno pepper
kosher salt and pepper to taste
Prepare tuna and marinade:
• Mix all the ingredients to give the marinade in a bowl
• Add, enter the tuna into a bowl, cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Make your sauce, while tuna is marinating.
Prepare the sauce:
• Cut the mango - if you do not know how to Google it.
• All ingredients
• Salt and pepper to taste, if its hot or too sour, add a little honey or someLawyer
Prepare the tuna:
Grill the tuna adds flavor, but also does a large pan.
• Get your grill or hot in the pan, almost Non smoking
• Place the tuna in hot surface for 30 seconds
• Put on the same side of the 90-degree points for diamond grill for 30 seconds
• Turn the fish and cook for the last 30 seconds or more, if you have more well done.
The plate of grilled tuna with brands andSalsa flows on one side. This is designed so that a light meal, so it is not part of the wheat.
2 servings
Grilled Peaches with Chantilly
1 large, ripe yellow peach
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon sugar
Chantilly Ingredients:
1. / 2 cup cream
1 / 2 c. Vanilla tea extract
1 / 2 teaspoon sugar
1 / 2 teaspoon cinnamon
Prepare the cream:
• The cream with aMixers
• In its half cooked, sugar and vanilla
• End-to whip until it forms soft peaks
Fried Fish:
• Stir the butter with the sugar and
• Cut the peaches into quarters and remove pits
• Brush fish with the mixture of butter
• Place the fish on a medium hot grill
• BBQ around 10 minutes until the fish becomes soft and grill marks
• Insert two quartersOn each plate, put another on the vertical.
• Chantilly spoon on each plate, cover lightly Fisheries
• Sprinkle a little "over the whole plate of cinnamon