Cooking dinner for a girl

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daftski.

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I'm kind of dating this girl and tomorrow night I'm cooking her dinner. I have a few ideas of what to make and I'm pretty sure I'm going with barbecue chicken. What I'm not sure of is what to make for a side dish, I was thinking some sort of grilled vegetable since I'm going to be grilling the chicken. Unfortunately, I don't have any good grilled vegetable recipes. I realize that its not the hard to grill vegetables, but I thought some of you guys might have some good combinations of vegetables to use or methods of grilling them - i.e. wrapping them in foil, just throwing them on the grill, using some sort of oil/spice on them when they're on the grill. So if any of you have some good ideas of vegetables to grill or things that would go well with the chicken throw them out there.
 
I would take some green and red bell peppers, slice them, a red onion, slice it, toss it all in a mixture of some garlic, olive oil and basil and the just straight grill it.
 
BBQ chicken? That's not gooood.

Make Caesar salad and Chicken Parm.

Not that hard. And it's good.

 
wrap asparagus with prosciutto. salt and pepper it. drizzle olive oil on it. grill on a piece of tin foil but not wrapped.
 
Alright, I was going to go with BBQ chicken because she said its one of her favorite foods the other day, but chicken parm sounds good.
 
Yo Asparagus tastes dope and its easy as shit to cook. If you're using the BBQ (stick with what you're comfortable with) then you can grill it on there no worries. The smoked flavour will make it pretty good and you can just drizzle that shit with a bit of salt/pepper and olive oil and your'e stoked.

NOTHING gets a chick more stoked than cooking for her. #1 best advice on a dude trying to cook is look for recepies on the internet.

http://www.foodtv.ca/chefathome/

^^This guy is named Michael Smith, has a show in Canada called "Chef at home" - his shit is fucking dope and actually pretty easy to make. All you gotta do is follow the directions.

If you're a total rookie cook and looking to impress, one great key is presentation. Real chefs call it "plating" but basically jsut get some parsley and dress the dish all cool when you put it on the table. Girls go crazy.

If you're going to just grill chicken, MARINADE that shit. Give it like 4 hours before you're going to cook and put some white whine, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and some spices and shit (you can get cooking wine if you're underage I think) The marinade will really enhance the flavour of the chicken. make sure to be super patient cooking it, you don't want to burn it.

If you want to get fucking crazy, then take the chicken breast in your hand, turn it on its edge and make a slit down the side. Cut it like its a hot dog bun, leaving a pocket inside the chicken. Then you can get crazy, stuff that shit with pesto, goat's cheese, or whatever else floats your boat. Want to get super gnarly, then after you've stuffed it wrap that shit in prociutto. If you do that, put it in a baking dish and cook in the oven at 350 for about 45 minutes or 1 hour if its huge.

For veggies, if you're using the grill, just break off the bottoms of asparagus and then brush them with like an olive oil and garlic glaze. You can make this by using a garlic press to squeeze a few cloves of garlic into a small dish with olive oil in it. To fill out the flavour, maybe just drop a bit of garlic powder in there and some salt and pepper. Grill the asparagus, and then when it comes out put some freshly ground parmesean cheese on that shit and blammo, you got laid. ;)

If you're going the oven route, do basically the same thing with the asparagus, except it'll take about 20 minutes so time your shit correctly... don't think you'll remember by looking at the clock.

Then for extra added "laid" factor, take about 4 small-ish tomatoes and quarter them. Put all the tomato slices in a small mixing bowl, and then drizzle a bit of oil on it. Toss some salt and pepper in there, maybe a few spices you like (I'm crazy for cilantro and basil) and then toss the bowl so it coats the shit nicely. Lay the tomato wedges around the wrapped chicken breasts in the baking dish you selected (use a bigger one) skin side down, and cook them right with the chicken. The tomatoes will need 45 minutes to an hour, and you can do this without the chicken and its super badass.

If you're comfortable with the grill, go for it. The grill is great because hanging outside is very social. Try to prepare an appetizer that she'll like - but remember keep it light, chicks very rarely like chicken wings. A nice light hummus with some pita wedges can be banger as shit and its really easy to make. Veggies and dip is easy too, just something to show how freakin' cool you are.

Bottom line Dude who cooks=dude who gets laid.

Hit me up with any questions you have and good luck!

 
they're grilled vegtables, just throw some olive oil and italian spices. Cracked pepper, corse salt. Ya know. Or just grill them and cover them in barbeque sauce. Also does the job.
 
^thanks for the site and advice. I'm going to talk to my mom and sister to see what they think. I'll let you guys know what I decide on and how it goes. Now its back to studying western civ.
 
I wouldn't make chicken, unless it's really spectacular. Chicken is a "dirty bird", and just doesn't seem gourmet/romantic at all. Instead, go with pheasant, duck, or goose. I know a good recipe for grilling waterfowl. Side dish? Wanna grill veggies? Stick some yellow, green, and red peppers on a skewer, along with raw potatoes, pea pods, and mushrooms. Add a little spice of your choice (probably some sort of all-purpose steak seasoning) and just throw 'em on the grill. Rice pilaf is always a good side as well.
 
Wow like someone else said the passion of the chef right here, and that chef at home show is fucking amazing, I used to watch it in the summer all the time during the day so sick. Best part was "toss the bowl so it coats the shit nicely" lmao
 
I always liked throwing corn on the grill with some pepper and butter. Real easy but it goes with the dish well.
 
Hahaha Bishop, that was great. I don't think I've ever heard so much profanity and passion for cooking all mixed into one...delicious entree? Ah jokes..
 
bishops got the right idea, use the internet for recipes...you can make pretty much anything.

id suggest doing bowtie pasta with vodka sauce, easy as FUCK to make but still fairly classy and tasty. pastas are great because its classy and easy.

if you are just making dinner as a fun kinda cute date idea and not something so serious id suggest making pizza TOGETHER, get a shit load of toppings and let her decide what she wants on it. its really informal and such but girls like making pizza for some reason. dont make some shitty pizza though, do it decent with a good recipe for dough online if you can.
 
haha i made a thread in here about a couple of months ago that was the exact same thing!
So ill tell you what i made and its simple
I made a shrimp alfredo with shrimp coctail on the side. Well she loves shrimp so she liked it a lot, but the shrimp alfredo was amazing.
 
if your going to grill veggies make sure you brush some oil oil on first and it will taste better and grill better. If your set on doing chicken BBQ is easy but there are defiantly more sophisticated ways to prepare chicken and i feel like BBQ though it taste good is not very high up on that list. An easy chicken dish to do is chicken cordon blue and its a bit more interesting. But if you want to stick to cooking on the grill you can go with a prity basic marinade and maybe make a nice wine and cream based sauce of sort for it and put it over a bed of pasta with assorted grilled veggies mixed in.
 
word to asparagus. a little lemon is good on it too. bbq seems a little weird but I guess it totally depends on the girl... good luck.
 
man doug, I'm horny now..

but man, there is nothing wrong with the bbq. Don't listen to all these haters. I much prefer the barbeque over the oven. Especially now that its spring/summer. Don't go over board on the menu, she may be a picky eater. Just make up a sick chicken breast, fresh herbs and all the jazz. You wanted it, go for it. Pasta's can be heavy and too fancy. You want simplicity.

Do some grilled vegtables as already stated. Man, fresh asparagus from my garden is sooo dope (call me gay.. hate on me.. I always back in the day helped my mom out with the garden alot. Since at a young age I wanted my own garden, my mom helped me out. I still use it today.) But you could use peppers, mushrooms, eggplant, i uno its endless..

And make a dope salad. That is key. Nice and light. Nothing fancy, easy and simple is what you want. Seriously just go get a head of iceberg lettuce. Break it up, add some olive oil and corse salt. And your done, you've got an awesome salad. If you want to spruce it up use a spring mix and add some cherry tomatoes. (Salad to me is the most important, I love a good crisp quality salad)

Always have/use fresh cracked pepper and coarse salt. So much better.

But man, when I cook, for myself or anyone else, I don't go for class, I like it casual. Presentation, sure, is important but the quality and simplicity is much more important to me. Fuck em if they care about the perfect placement of each vegetable. I want them to bite into and be like thats fucking amazing. Not wow that looks really pretty, you sure put alot of work into that.

I'd personally stay away from cooking seafood, especially if you are inexperienced. (If your considering)

Just keep it Fresh and Simplicity is key! Best advice I can give ya.

 
mhm a nice green salad with olive oil and balsamico. then maybe a light tomato soup with basilic and breads crums (sp?) annnd.. why not tomato risotto ? or selfmade lasagne ? girls love italian food !! Oh and dont forget the red wine unless u dont like it.For dessert you should make little chocolat muffinf and right before u serve them make sure they are warm ( preferably the chocolate inside should be still liquid )
and serve vanilla ice cream to it..
 
get a pan aht gones in the oven. put EVOO in the pan. put salmon in it. 2 filets. put black pepper crushed on it. put in oven for awhille to bake. use a fork and pick at it, youll know when its done.

so legit and easy
 
Thanks for the advice. After talking to her sister I think I'm going to stick with grilling the chicken since its something she really likes. I would do an italian dish like some people said but we had italian a few nights ago. For the veggies I found a simple recipe on the site Bishop posted and I'll probably do that. The recipe can be found here: http://www.foodtv.ca/recipes/recipedetails.aspx?dishid=6888 In addition to the veggies and chicken, I'm going to have a salad. I'm not positive on what kind of salad but it will most likely be something simple. Thanks for the advice from those of you who gave it.
 
I thought I'd give you guys an update as to how it went. I ended up grilling the chicken and vegetables and had a salad too. She loved it and Bishop was right about cooking for girls.
 
dude. dont cook finger foods sucha s hamburger of hot dogs. always when your cooking to impress always make food that you will use a fork with. this sounds simple but it keeps it classy. salad is your best bet for the side. if you want french fries just say no. go with the healthy choice for once and choose the salad. and as for the chicken your making...sounds great. the grill is a great way to cook for your girl and the grill is defently the man way of cooking meat.
 
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