Making Pizza in the home oven was fun. Need some skill and experience though because home ovens don't really get hot enough. Need to make an upper side heat shield.
Had this baked tomato halves spaghetti sauce we made.
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Again, almost any meal can be fun and romantic with the right person. It's the togetherness, not the specific food.
As long as the preparation can withstand periodic interruption for non-culinary activities, that is.
My homemade chicken parm with made from scratch red sauce always did the trick during my dating years. Not only did the house smell wonderful but it was a great excuse to crack open a bottle of red. A little for the sauce and a lot for the glasses.
The combo of wonderful aromas (which stayed in the house for hours) and soul satisfying comfort food, along of course with much good Cabernet consumed and sometimes even some Josh Groban in the background, was as close to a surefire panty remover as I ever found. Of course it was also a fair amount of work just to get laid so I always keep the big gun in reserve for the girls I felt like I had to have.
I wanna try coq au vin... but I'm a fan of wine, not chicken. He makes really good chicken though. Maybe he can handle the chicken and I'll do the rest?
I’ll be honest I’m not sure this is something straight guys ever think about.
Me as a single guy I’m constantly thinking about going OUT and fucking as much pussy as humanly possible.
I think romantic/fun and me at home cooking are two mutually exclusive things. I’m very pragmatic about food, aka me hungry, me eat now
Living on the Gulf Coast I am partial to seafood. Serve it with a good crusty bread, Caesar Salad with good wine. Delicious and it doesn’t weigh you down for after dinner activities.
Any food that has a relatively simple base element, but can be made in variations via different toppings can be good for this sort of thing. So, pizza, tacos, even omelettes, etc.
Here's an idea ... buy a package or two of English muffins. Separate the halves and lay them all out on a cookie sheet. Use a wide variety of sauces, cheeses, and toppings and bake up a bunch of mini-pizzas. Once they're cooked you can see which one of you made the best (or worst) experimental mini-pizzas. It's no so much romantic as just fun. But you should be able to bring romance to whatever you do.
Man, if somebody played me this on a date
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…I wouldn’t be fucking anybody. I’d go straight to sleep, and wake up feeling inspired to go to mass.
My thought would be something simple - as you might get distracted. A pasta dish with good sauce that is nicely seasoned (basil and oregano). A nice wine. You can talk as you prepare the food, and listen to decent music. I enjoy a bit of Anita Baker or Billie Holliday.
I like pasta, and I like to make it. Real good at it too. I keep it quite undercooked before I dump the water out into a colander. And then I put butter and olive oil on top of the water before I put the noodles in.
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How about a nice charcuterie board? Small bites so you don't get overfull. Lots of different flavors and easy to share. Doesn't take a lot of prep time, just a fair amount of grocery shopping. Get a couple quality cheeses, couple of types of olives, cured meat if you're so inclined, gin -soaked cornichons are nice, and a little bit of fruit. Strawberries or grapes, cotton candy grapes are wonderful when they're in season. Pair this with an inexpensive, but decent red like 2018 Austin Hope cab and you're set for the evening.
Great now I'm hungry and horny.
Anything with a lot of steps that you can take together and enjoy. And things you can eat with your hands. Using your hands brings a whole other sensation to it. You also don't want anything too heavy or too many carbs.
Tacos... make your own salsa and guacamole. Marinate or stew your meats.
Seafood boil
Japanese hot pot
Different types of egg rolls. Be creative with this. You can do almost anything from Mexican fillings to lumpia.
^^^^^ That is fun to use, if you know how to make some good stuff.
It is really hot an so you have to keep stirring.
But be careful about the amount of hot oil that gets into the air.
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My teen crush, Valerie Bertinelli, often cooked romantic dinners for her husband Tom on her Cooking Channel show.
…and they separated last year, so there’s food for thought
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LOL Nina. How we react to something is always situational I suppose. Maybe it helped that this song was near the end of the Closer soundtrack, after the wine was flowing and a lot of other good music came through, lol.
Btw you should listen to the whole Closer album - it's a great collection of work.
This thread makes me wonder how many cans of whipped cream Nina could spray on top of her butt without any falling off. It would probably take her boyfriend several days to lick it all off.
Avoid anything with hot peppers like jalapenos or Thai chilis. One minute you're cooking, the next minute your fooling around, the next minute you're soaking your generals in a cold bath filled with every ice cube in the house. Real talk.
I take it Nina has never seen the classic Charlie Sheen movie Hot Shots! where the do a spoof of the food scene from 9 1/2 weeks if she thought it sounds like
I take it Nina has never seen the classic Charlie Sheen movie Hot Shots! where the do a spoof of the food scene from 9 1/2 weeks if she thought it sounds like a junkie think. Though to be faie it did have Charlie Sheen in it so I guess it was a junkie think in a way.
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Homemade pasta was fun. The resulting pasta itself wasn't anything special, but making it was a hoot. As others mentioned, stuff with booze is always fun. An excuse to break out some wine, whiskey/bourbon never hurts. Like a picatta or scampi, are good excuses to break out a wine and have a reasonable amount of not overly complicated prep. And you can do chicken/fish/shrimp/scallops.
Deserts can be fun too. Chocolate covered fruits or cookies, or even cupcakes or something. But they're really only fun if you're amateurs and not perfectionists, the fun is in fucking around & fucking up. If you're capable of expertly melting chocolate and coating berries, then drizzling on something or adding nuts/sprinkles/whatever, or not capable and know you won't be happy with anything less than an Instagram ready result you can easily cross over from playful to annoying and wind up with someone sleeping on the couch.
I will say being stuck at home during COVID and being forced to cook did a lot to improve my marriage. It became a weekend adventure trying out new "fancy" recipes, setting the table with the good china and picking out special bottle(s) of wine. Just be careful the recipes aren't too complex because a romantic night can turn frustrating real quick.
Its good to Nina is still so immature and insecure, and that she cannot even grasp a 90s pop culture reference that was meant in good jest and in no way directed at her.
Nina, I like Coq qu vin, but I think that is a recipe that may take a few days of slow cooking and sitting in the sauce. It could be romantic though with a good bottle of red wine, a nice salad and a crusty loaf of homemade bread.
I like to make some grilled scallops wrapped in prosciutto, a light salad and maybe some sauteed green beans?
A chocolate mousse to end?
I am notsure. I don't cook much. Just had an idea to suggest making your question into a youtube post on Sasha Gray youtube channel . She has a bunch of cooking stuff and appears to not have that much attention doing ordinary stuff. More attention than I would want but I am not a famous youtuber. If you do please post link back here. Might be interesting.
It's not about the food, it's the story,. My favorite food to share with new friends is a strawberry shortcake recipe that has been in my family for 200 years, which has become a seasonal tradition with my ATF. In return, she makes Brazilian desserts, also with stories.
Only if both of you like garlic and onions, shrimp scampi or pasta with white clam sauce. If you're really adventurous, pasta with a combination of shrimp and clams, in a sauce of olive oil, onions, mushrooms, some chicken stock, some cherry tomatoes (halved) and some white wine.
I agree with Nina. Pasta is a workable dinner before sex.
As I believe Nina is in a long term relationship, it’s not like a first date. A little more garlic isn’t going to get her man called out by Chuck Wollery on Love Connection!
We are not making this together because it's for my birthday and he says he won't let me cook, but he is maybe me shrimp linguine in either a white or a scampi sauce (haven't decided).
I'm so excited. It's pasta but shouldn't be too heavy. I'll have sex beforehand just in case I get bloated after the pasta.
Yayyy.
@nina: Mrs. Carey and I made Julia Child's boeuf bourguignon (very similar to coq au vin) on a quiet country getaway this past new years. It was a nice one for cozy winter cooking, bc it's pretty simple, involves a bit of prep chopping, and the smell fills the house up over the course of the cook. It's also good bc there is going to be a 1/2 used bottle of red hanging around, and you can sip wine while you prep/cook. There is also a Norman version with pork and apple cider called Épaule de porc braisée aux pommes et pruneaux.
Very frenchy!
I still think pasta would give you a food coma. Anything heavy would. I think foods you can eat with your hands add a depth to it. It makes it more intimate I think. Do is eating in bed or on the floor. I've had romantic meals with chicken wings lol
Get some thc syrup to add to your drinks.
I've always wanted to try some cave man shit like a naked bbq out in nature.
"I've always wanted to try some cave man shit like a naked bbq out in nature."
We have 9 acres of privacy so maybe we could do that when the weather gets warm. I already plan to have sex out there.
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