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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Pfunk on February 10, 2004, 05:47:53 PM
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I am a broke college student and have already spent to much $$ on gifts, so going out to eat is not an option. Does anyone have some good recipes for a romantic meal made at home? Maybe something like a surf and turf, or a poultry dish.
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Break up with her, then make up again after the 14th and her birthday.
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
Break up with her, then make up again after the 14th and her birthday.
LOL you ever had a girlfriend:rofl
Your hand dont count BTW
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Yeah a guy with imaginary internet pornstar girlfriends is making cracks about my sex life. LOL
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I dunno, to me Surf-n-turf is dubious taste and you're doubling your failure chances.
A handing tip in planning a dinner is to use something cooks call METT-T
M: Meal
E: Equipment
T: Tablemates
T: Talent
T: Time Available
Meal: this seems pretty clear: "A romantic dinner".
Tablemates: Sure, a girl. Two people is going to make the choice of food easier, but get a little more detailed intel if you can:
A) What did this person grow up eating? Are we talking someone used to Big Macs or Foie Gras? Are there "Comfort Foods" you can exploit?
B) When you dine out, what sorts of places do you go to? Shoney's? Normaltown cafe? The Basil Press? The botanical gardens? Any place that features a half-pound burger?
C) What does she like?
D) How about Duck?
Equipment:
A) What's your kitchen like? What tools do you have? Pots, Pans, knives, ovens, stoves, machines, spill it out.
B) Quality food depends on quality ingredients. What are your supply streams like?
1) How well do you know the hippy food places in town? They can have good foods (organics), but usually they're staffed by well-heeled, well-meaning, but food-ignorant middle-class white kids. That means that the food can be good, but is not necessarily treated well. And poorly treated food can be nasty. Do you feel comfortable evaluating foodstuffs in an environment that has the best and the worst the town has to offer?
2) How about ties to the local agricultural producers? Know of any good produce stands? Places you can get a fresh-slaughtered chicken? Sometimes speaking spanish can help.
3) If you have to go the supermarket route, go to the Publix E of town (the one by the Borders). Recon the place one morning. Morning is key, because the fresh fish is gone pretty early. Check stuff out. What's fresh? What kinds of meat, fish and vegetables look good? any fresh-looking fruits?
Talent: How much cooking do you do? What kinds of meals are you proficient in? What sorts of processes (e.g., baking, frying, rolling puff pastry)?
TIme available: There's not much. Ideally, you want to recon tomorrow, and determine the strike package. 3 days is the minimum for say a bouef a la bourguignonne, or for home-cured salmon. (hmmm... now Lox is always a good thing to have around, it's easy, and it's impressive, but does freak some people out)
But if you're going to be cooking seafood, that needs to be as fresh as possible. Expect traffic around the choice items, though.
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4) If you are not a homosexual, skip all of the above and shell out for a real dinner at a restaurant, you cheap ****.
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I'd just go out but if ya can't, no way are you going to put on a good surf and turf at home for cheap. Cheaper than going out sure, but still pretty pricey.
If you have parents, friends, sisters etc. close to you, borrow some good candles sticks or holders, and a fondue set. Someone has one, pry an unused wedding gift. Total $0.
2 bottles of Cooks champagne are $7 bucks for the pair.
Add $15 in chocolate, cheese, strawberries and some French bread. Chill the champagne, dice the bread, hit the lights, light the candles, and fondue warmer, get her drunk, enjoy.
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
Yeah a guy with imaginary internet pornstar girlfriends is making cracks about my sex life. LOL
Oh no my friend she is for real.
But not my girlfriend.
Just a friend and a penpal.
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Unless you've got good culinary skills, forget the S&T. If she's cool, she's not going to care all that much about what you do as long as you make it all about her. Don't know much about where you live, but just keep it simple. Alcohol and lots of personal attention will get you through it okay. One tip, if your gonna cook, make as much of it as you can in advance, that way she's not getting bored while you're wasting a bunch of valentines time in the kitchen banging away when you should be on the couch....... well, you get the drift!:D
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Originally posted by mrblack
Oh no my friend she is for real.
But not my girlfriend.
Just a friend and a penpal.
OK I give you a mission, get her to post here. :)
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fine. 3 words:
ABC Package Store.
Funked, V-Day, in my experience, sucks as a night to dine out. Every place is full, and mostly sappy couples. The whole goal of the event, unless things have changed since I moved back to the midwest and became a pathetic bachelor, is to get laid.
If men ran the world, V-Day would be a slam-dunk night for nookie. As it is, it's a royal pain in the ass, and winning or losing often seems to have little to do with sentiment or preparation.
One thing is for certain, and that's that restaurants suck on valentine's day. every "nice" place is swamped; food quality decreases, crowd factor goes up, ugly scenes everywhere, and the huge pricetag makes everyone unhappy and ready for bed.
Creamo's cooks-and-fondue is a much better call.
Oh yeah, here's one for you:
run down to that publix on the East side. In their fancy cheese container they have a lot of crap you don't want to have anything to do with. They also have all kinds of mozzarella. Pick upt he stuff that says "Lupara" and has a wolf on it. It's the real deal, Mozzarella di Bufala, made from the water buffalo in the area around Naples, and is the only thing in the state of georgia thatis technically mozzarella.
While you're there, grab some fresh tomatoes on the vine, and some fresh basil leaves.. (yeah I know it's not the season for either. But you're int he south). Get some Extra Virgin Olive Oil if you don't have it already (always tasty anyway).
Cut the mozzarella and tomatoes into slices, arrange on plates, garnish with basil leaves, sea salt and frehs-ground pepper. Drizzle olive oil on top, and you've got a classic appettizer. (insalata caprese).
Plus you can do a little internet research on mozz di bufala and impress her with your culinary knowledge.
For the plate, grab some Maverick steaks at same publix -- go for the NY strip steak or something. Grab some potatoes. I like the small ones. Purchase some truffle oil while you're at it. If you get the concentrated stuff, mix a bit with olive oil; normally you'll get some stuff that's already cut (how do you tell? Well, if you say, "holy crap, this stuff is more than a buck a teaspoon", you've got the uncut stuff.
Cook the potatoes, and rice them (hell mash 'em. you won't have a ricer)
Put a mixture of half-butter, half-olive/truffle oil in a pan, melt it and get it hot at medium-high heat. Throw in the steaks, brown 30 seconds to a side, then cook for 4 minutes on a side (you may want to try this earlier to make sure you get the right doneness for your hardware. Deploying an untested recipe is dangerous). Take the steaks out and let them set for a minute while you prepare the plates.
Serve with a decent red. ABC had some CA merlot last month for $8/bottle that was pretty tasty.
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
OK I give you a mission, get her to post here. :)
LOL why would she want to:rofl
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KFC, and don't forget a parfait for her :aok
Thorns
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thanks Dinger, never really been in the Publix, but I will definetly check it out. 90% of the nice restuarants in downtown are doing flat rate dinners at $30-$50 per person. To much $$ for me, and even if I did from previous years experience vday reservations were made weeks ago.
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Arby's...really splurge and get curly fries for her, you know, because it's a special day and all.
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V-Day, eh?
Depends. Is it Victory in Europe or Japan?
Whatever you do, make sure she's tipsy by the time you're done.
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Actually, if it’s a long time girlfriend, it has nothing to do with getting laid for the evening. It’s more making sure you get laid again, and often. They just want the effort. For cheap, can’t say I was wrong, but Dinger seems to have a better and more impressive alternative. Hell, I'd date him with that dinner.
And Dinger, if you’re a bachelor, last year I went to a sports bar on night shift for lunch, and there were some very drunk, very vocal gals grouped up talking about their EX’s. Apparently lonely, and ripe pickens. Might need a wingman for that though. One to hit on the Fat chick to make the good looking hags jealous, one to buy drinks for the cockblocker.
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WING MAAAAAAAAAAAAA-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
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Don't do a dinner. Take her on a picnic. Do the day as a total immersion, nice walk in good suuroundings. Light but tastysnacks in the basket. A bottle of bubbly or a nice light table wine. Do something that you might find in one of those tabloid magazines in the store. (Not the ailen abduction ones either!)
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Two things to make the night special:
(http://www.loomer.com/md-20-20.jpg)
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(http://www.nightdreams.com/images/romantic%20eve/anal%20eaze.jpg)
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Great idea Goose, 52 degree forecast, 8 mph winds to boot. No thanks, that's no picnic, unless your an eskimo, and a bit chilly to be getting down after you get her drunk on champagne. Not to mention the cab driver would get pricey and bored watching PF try and get all sweet. Unless your a mad drunk driver then mrblack will be on the jury and you'll get the chair.
Make the Dinger upscale cheezy poofs and meats served under candle light in the comfy livingroom and bust out the cheerleader outfit surprise for her later.
Thank me later,
Dr. Ruth Creamostheimer
edit- I just lost my new radio show to SOB, lol, thats actually terrific.
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Here's one I used on my wife. Go to Subway and pick up a couple meatball subs. Set the table with a couple candles and put on some soft music with the lights low. Tell her you couldn't afford Italy so you got as close as you could. Cheezy, yes, but you'll get laid for sure. :D
Cougar
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more making sure you get laid again, and often. They just want the effort
almost. only effort is effort in her mind, not yours, and if you screw the pooch on this one, you'll be paying the price in so many different ways you'll start referring to her as the "accounts withholding department".
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and I meant publix on the west side. Just think of how you'd leave athens to intercept 78 to atlanta, and you'll run right past it just before the mall.
Sorry.
and the spanish-speakers pronounce it so it's name is practically indistinguishable from "pubix"
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Originally posted by SOB
Two things to make the night special:
(http://www.loomer.com/md-20-20.jpg)
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(http://www.nightdreams.com/images/romantic%20eve/anal%20eaze.jpg)
Sounds like you and Funked have the night already planned
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Romantic Dinner for a
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fan
isn't that a porno and a tv dinner???
:)
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take her to burger king and tell her "baby u can have it your way"
cause when we get home i'm gonna get it my way!
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KFC?! Arby's?! Burger King?!!
You bunch of sorry cheap bastards! We are talking about the woman he loves, for cyring out loud!!
There is a great Denny's off 285 in Smyrna. :rofl
Cook the way men are supposed to cook...with FIRE...cranking up the grill and make some steaks.
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Buy some strawberries, buy some chocolate. Buy some inexpensive champagne. Melt chocolate, dip strwberries, optional: top w/ confectioner's sugar.
Use each other as a table. :D
h
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I subscribe to Dinger's interpretation.
1) Take one frozen Margherita Pizza
2) A handful of chopped red peppers
3) Spell out "I would like a fcuk tonight" with the red peppers
4) Put in oven
Shows thoughtfulness, creativity and imagination. You can practically take it to the bank. This has a 100% success rate with me (tried once, succeeded once). But then I am hung like a race-horse with twice the stamina.
Enjoy.
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Thats not even boozonics Horn, your retarded.
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Forget about eating out. Not going to happen on Valentine's Day. Everything is going to be booked up.
Cooking your own dinner is a good idea. Another idea is to eat out the night before and save the leftovers for Saturday. Let her pick the movie you're going to go see or rent.
If you cook your own, you can't go wrong with a chicken dish (she might be on a diet or be a semi-veggie gal). Go pick up a package of chicken breasts or chicken cutlets (whichever has the least amount of fat marbling), some mashed pototoes (or stuffing), and Birdseye green beans with roasted almonds. Get some BBQ sauce if you don't already have some, and maybe a small loaf of deli bread. Trim the fat from the chicken, then pan-cook the chicken (cover with the lid to seal in the juices and heat) and follow the instructions on the box for the taters/stuffing and beans. I prefer to put the sauce in a small dish and dip the chicken - you two can share the sauce that way. Girls dig sharing.
Serve wine if she's up for it. Otherwise, cold apple juice makes a good compliment to the dish.
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Originally posted by Creamo
Thats not even boozonics Horn, your retarded.
"you're"
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Terrific, you're retarded.
At least your not in 8 mph winds in a bad winter picnic, so I'll give you that.
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PFunk - look up a recipe for salmon filets, throw a couple sides in with it, and make it look like you went through some effort (candles and ****). Once you figure out that all broads want to see is that you went through some 'extra' trouble for them youll never have to try again.
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Originally posted by Creamo
Terrific, you're retarded.
At least your not in 8 mph winds in a bad winter picnic, so I'll give you that.
hehe, just entertained when I must correct the English of the one calling me a tard. Carry on. ;)
h
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Gents, the answers:
http://www.theonion.com/4006/opinion2.html
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You can go a long way... with just a candle...
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(http://www.theonion.com/images/static/character3.jpg)
People like me, people in successful, lasting relationships...
Only the Onion....
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Originally posted by Saintaw
You can go a long way... with just a candle...
Just make sure shes 'that kind of girl' before you pour the wax on her.
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If you can't cook, call up a friend and ask him or her to make the food.
Put the food in pans on the stove / oven / grill before she gets there and pretend that you made it.
Ravs
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Shrimp scampi:
Mix some olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper, red pepper, parsley and a little butter. Mix this with about ¾ lb shrimp (biggest you can afford). Spread out in a shallow pan and put in the top rack of an oven on broil. Cook about 2 minutes, until the shrimp start to turn red. Don’t overcook.
Serve over pasta (fettucini for example).
Spend the rest of your money on a decent bottle of wine and some kind of light desert from a bakery.
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Originally posted by myelo
Shrimp scampi:
Mix some olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper, red pepper, parsley and a little butter. Mix this with about ¾ lb shrimp (biggest you can afford). Spread out in a shallow pan and put in the top rack of an oven on broil. Cook about 2 minutes, until the shrimp start to turn red. Don’t overcook.
Serve over pasta (fettucini for example).
Spend the rest of your money on a decent bottle of wine and some kind of light desert from a bakery.
Scampi is always a good idea, not cheap though.
My recipie:
Sauce: 1/3 butter + 1/3 white wine + 1/3 honey.
eskimo
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It's all in the presentation.
You can serve freakin hot dogs (pun intended) as long as you set the mood!
Move all the furniture... set out a blanket and have an indoor picnic. candles, mood music... you get the picture.
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Just fix her something simple its the effort that will melt her heart.
Then have a bath prepared with rose peddles for her.
And KEPPING YOUR CLOTHES ON Wash her hair.
Then when your done read her this poem that I Wrote.
But tell her you wrote it ok LOL.
Sunlight
I awake to this beautiful creature next to me the scent of jasmine escapes from just behind her ear.
She undisturbed in slumber and I am amazed by her serenety.
I gently kiss her neck and she smiles as only she can.
At this point I come to know that no matter how much material wealth i have without her I am a poor man.
At times like this I am in awe of the wonder that Is woman
A creation of such beauty indeed the warmth to offset mans coldness.
But then my eyes open yo see the sunlight thrue the window
and all this has been but a dream.
The beauty of my dream shatterd by the reality of sunlight.
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Originally posted by mrblack
Sunlight
I awake to this beautiful creature next to me the scent of jasmine escapes from just behind her ear.
She undisturbed in slumber and I am amazed by her serenety.
I gently kiss her neck and she smiles as only she can.
At this point I come to know that no matter how much material wealth i have without her I am a poor man.
At times like this I am in awe of the wonder that Is woman
A creation of such beauty indeed the warmth to offset mans coldness.
But then my eyes open yo see the sunlight thrue the window
and all this has been but a dream.
The beauty of my dream shatterd by the reality of sunlight.
Did you really write that?
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Originally posted by hawker238
Did you really write that?
yes I wrote it last week LOL.
Kinda sappy but thats what the women like LOL.
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Oh and If the above dont work.
you can always put a sock on your pudd and give her a puppet show:aok
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Nice Tossed Salad....dressing she may like...
Boneless Skinless Chicken breast....Lemon Pepper season with just a lil bit of minced garlic...Slow cooked in Olive Oil.....
Seasoned Potatoes...small amout of Garlic and Butter...Salt and Pepper...Dont Mash em but just chunk em up a bit....
Steamed Broccolli...
Chardonay Wine....
DVD sleepless in Seattle or You've got Mail:aok
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Originally posted by VFJACKAL
Nice Tossed Salad....dressing she may like...
Boneless Skinless Chicken breast....Lemon Pepper season with just a lil bit of minced garlic...Slow cooked in Olive Oil.....
Seasoned Potatoes...small amout of Garlic and Butter...Salt and Pepper...Dont Mash em but just chunk em up a bit....
Steamed Broccolli...
Chardonay Wine....
DVD sleepless in Seattle or You've got Mail:aok
Ok dammit you made me hungry LOL