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Default what is the best dishes to cook for my first time candlelight dinner?

Steve Pope said...

> jmcquown > wrote:
>
>>We would have to know what he likes to eat in order to help with this
>>question. Are there dietary restrictions? Does he eat meat, chicken,

fish
>>and/or seafood or are you interested in vegetarian dishes? Frankly,
>>anything can be eaten by candlelight if you like it

>
> I'd be cautious about fish, if it has lots of little
> bones in it -- it can be hard to separate them out at low light
> levels, and it's unromantic even in candlelight to have to spit out
> a mouthful of food because it contained all these tiny bones.
>
> Spaghetti is iffy because a fraction of people have never
> learned how to eat it. Similarly Asian noodles that require
> slurping are a bad idea. However, penne or fettucini (perhaps
> some fresh fettucini) would be fine. If you do all the prep
> work ahead of time, then you only need to take a few minutes
> to boil it and serve.
>
> Steve



I can heartily recommend a bowl of rotelle pasta, drowned in homemade pesto
and again drowned in a "smidgeon" of parmesan regiano for good measure!

Andy