So you meet a girl and go out. On a subsequent date you invite her to shop at the grocery store and then go back to your place to prepare dinner. It's a nice interactive, sensual evening at your place with wine. What do you make? This is not designed to impress or build attraction. Instead, it builds comfort and allows natural escalation. So keep it simple and easy.
Recipes?
G mentioned it earlier, but a caprese-like salad is good (maybe with a light pasta if you want more). If you're wanting to build comfort, involve the girl in the process; one simple playful recipe is to take a bunch of fresh, fragrant cherry-sized tomatoes and squeeze them out (just pinch them until the seeds squirt out)--this has the potential to make a huge mess if you don't do this with a towel over your hands or something--which can be either funny or potentially useful if you have her do it and she makes a mess.
Take the tomatoes, toss them with pitted salty kalamata olives, rip up some fresh basil (this will get your hands smelling nice as well...), a grind or two of fresh pepper, some ripped up fresh mozzarella, pour in a little extra-virgin olive oil, and have her help you mix everything together with your hands. End result is a tasty salad and two people rubbing their oiled hands against each other (good way to bring up massage as a topic). Not a bad start to the evening, and if you notice she's gotten tomato seeds on her shirt while squirting them out, what a great excuse to offer to launder it for her...
It's not impressive, but it's simple, participatory, tasty, tactile, and fun. The fresh tomatoes with the salty olives counterbalanced by the fresh basil is a good simple solid taste combination, and her hands will smell like basil for a while and remind her of you. You could do worse.
Take the tomatoes, toss them with pitted salty kalamata olives, rip up some fresh basil (this will get your hands smelling nice as well...), a grind or two of fresh pepper, some ripped up fresh mozzarella, pour in a little extra-virgin olive oil, and have her help you mix everything together with your hands. End result is a tasty salad and two people rubbing their oiled hands against each other (good way to bring up massage as a topic). Not a bad start to the evening, and if you notice she's gotten tomato seeds on her shirt while squirting them out, what a great excuse to offer to launder it for her...
It's not impressive, but it's simple, participatory, tasty, tactile, and fun. The fresh tomatoes with the salty olives counterbalanced by the fresh basil is a good simple solid taste combination, and her hands will smell like basil for a while and remind her of you. You could do worse.
General cooking recipes to help escalate a dinner into a notch aren't going to work. You need to understand fundamental principles of food. Master techniques not recipes.
Another very important factor when cooking at home (or eating out really) if you're going to go for a new notch that night is what you eat. If you slam down a big greasy meal with lots of starch, neither of you are going to feel frisky. Dont go into foods that are "aphrodisiacs" but rather think about the components of the meal.
You want a lite meal with minimal carbohydrates, very few starches, fast burning proteins (chicken,fish) and a moderate fat content using animal based fats, not processed plant oils.
Full is not sexy. Dont over produce if you cook at home because you'll likely overeat. Buy and prep just enough to feed you both, plate the food for both of you and put up any leftovers before sitting to eat.
Another very important factor when cooking at home (or eating out really) if you're going to go for a new notch that night is what you eat. If you slam down a big greasy meal with lots of starch, neither of you are going to feel frisky. Dont go into foods that are "aphrodisiacs" but rather think about the components of the meal.
You want a lite meal with minimal carbohydrates, very few starches, fast burning proteins (chicken,fish) and a moderate fat content using animal based fats, not processed plant oils.
Full is not sexy. Dont over produce if you cook at home because you'll likely overeat. Buy and prep just enough to feed you both, plate the food for both of you and put up any leftovers before sitting to eat.
When I started getting serious about cooking 4-5 years ago I stumbled across a blog called, "Wish Upon A Stove" that was run by a guy named Chef John who made video recipes. I remember the first time I made one of his dishes for a dinner party, it was the only thing that was completely devoured and everyone agreed the dish was as good as anything you could get in a restaurant. Everyone there asked me for the recipe.
Fast forward a few years and the blog has changed its name to 'Food Wishes' but Chef John still cranks out the best video recipes on the web. The dish I was referring to is his version of a dish called, "Caramel Chicken" from a restaurant named 'The Slanted Door' in San Francisco. The dish also has an interesting back story because it is Mick Jaggar from the Rolling Stones favorite dish and the Rolling Stones shut down the restaurant every time they are in San Francisco so they can eat there.
I can't post links because I don't have 10 posts yet, but do a google search or youtube search for "Caramel Chicken" and the name of the blog or youtube user is FoodWishes. Chef John is great and actually inspired me to enter culinary school in my spare time.
Fast forward a few years and the blog has changed its name to 'Food Wishes' but Chef John still cranks out the best video recipes on the web. The dish I was referring to is his version of a dish called, "Caramel Chicken" from a restaurant named 'The Slanted Door' in San Francisco. The dish also has an interesting back story because it is Mick Jaggar from the Rolling Stones favorite dish and the Rolling Stones shut down the restaurant every time they are in San Francisco so they can eat there.
I can't post links because I don't have 10 posts yet, but do a google search or youtube search for "Caramel Chicken" and the name of the blog or youtube user is FoodWishes. Chef John is great and actually inspired me to enter culinary school in my spare time.
Quote: (08-01-2011 01:03 PM)Farmageddon Wrote:
The dish I was referring to is his version of a dish called, "Caramel Chicken" from a restaurant named 'The Slanted Door' in San Francisco. The dish also has an interesting back story because it is Mick Jaggar from the Rolling Stones favorite dish and the Rolling Stones shut down the restaurant every time they are in San Francisco so they can eat there.
Is he the Head/Executive Chef there or something?
I have been to that place a number of times, and their food is actually fantastic. Haven't had that particular dish myself, since I am predominantly vegetarian and only eat meat occasionally.
Also check out these sites, I get recipes from there often:
http://www.epicurious.com/
http://www.bonappetit.com/
http://www.gourmet.com/
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Is he the Head/Executive Chef there or something?
Not at the Slanted Door but he has been Head Chef at several restaurants in the bay area. I think he decided to do Caramel Chicken because the Slanted Door is legendary and that dish is the most ordered at the place. I'm sure the Rolling Stones back story has something to do with it as well.
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