i was wondering...what can make him impress??although i don't have a
boyfriend yet now..I'm just curious!just want to know...reply my
message as soon as possible please..

On 20 Mar 2007 07:37:53 -0700, wrote:

>i was wondering...what can make him impress??although i don't have a
>boyfriend yet now..I'm just curious!just want to know...reply my
>message as soon as possible please..


Whatever you can cook well. A fancy dish poorly cooked is a real turn
off.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)

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>i was wondering...what can make him impress??although i don't have a
> boyfriend yet now..I'm just curious!just want to know...reply my
> message as soon as possible please..


As I guy, my rule of thumb is nothing involving spaghetti. As a woman, your
results might be somewhat better...

;-)

Hasta,
Curt Nelson

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The best dishes for a candlelight dinner are dishes that are prepared in advance
and will hold well. The purpose is to pay attention to your SO and not have
then standing in the kitchen watching you slave over a stove.

First determine the menu, soup or salad? Both can be prepared in advance and
just dressed and served.

As far as the main course timing is critical you want something like a Beef
Wellington which will hold for several hours or a braised dish like Osso Buco,
braised lamb shanks or a ragout.

Need a starch? got a rice cooker?

Veggies are easy, just blanch and shock in ice water. Then reheat in a burnt
butter sauce. They will be warm and crispy.

For dessert hopefully you've covered the loaf of bread , the jug of wine, and
now it's time for the THOU!

Enjoy

Dimitri

On Mar 20, 8:37 am, wrote:
> i was wondering...what can make him impress??although i don't have a
> boyfriend yet now..I'm just curious!just want to know...reply my
> message as soon as possible please..

Real men like rice or potatoes. Swiss steak or baked chicken works
well too. You'll need to know what he likes though. If he's
vegetarian, that changes things.

My practical suggestion is to not think too much about it. Whenever I
plan things very carefully, there is more details and more things to
go wrong. Just a general idea might work best, and then don't spend
hours preparing it. Otherwise you might be frustrated if he only eats
a few bites because he grabbed a candy bar earlier. dkw

wrote:
> i was wondering...what can make him impress??although i don't have a
> boyfriend yet now..I'm just curious!just want to know...reply my
> message as soon as possible please..
>
lasagna, garlic bread, salad...that will impress me.

fariha wondered;
> "i was wondering...what can make him
> impress??although i don't have a boyfriend
> yet now..I'm just curious!just want to
> know...reply my message as soon as possible
> please.. "
"Wine makes men weak and women beautiful"
Unknown
Don't forget the vino !

wrote:
> i was wondering...what can make him impress??although i don't have a
> boyfriend yet now..I'm just curious!just want to know...reply my
> message as soon as possible please..

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

Jill

Curt Nelson wrote:
> > wrote in message
> ps.com...
>> i was wondering...what can make him impress??although i don't have a
>> boyfriend yet now..I'm just curious!just want to know...reply my
>> message as soon as possible please..
>
>
> As I guy, my rule of thumb is nothing involving spaghetti. As a woman, your
> results might be somewhat better...
>
> ;-)
>
> Hasta,
> Curt Nelson
>
>

I never went wrong with Italian dishes or steaks with Mr. Raven before
we were married.

--
That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos.

-Harry Dresden

Scott wrote:
> wrote:
>> i was wondering...what can make him impress??although i don't have a
>> boyfriend yet now..I'm just curious!just want to know...reply my
>> message as soon as possible please..
>>
> lasagna, garlic bread, salad...that will impress me.

Odd..Mr. Raven said the same thing and his name is Scott also <<raises
eyebrow>> lol...

--
That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos.

-Harry Dresden

On Mar 20, 11:50�am, "jmcquown" > wrote:
> wrote:
> > i was wondering...what can make him impress??although i don't have a
> > boyfriend yet now..I'm just curious!just want to know...reply my
> > message as soon as possible please..
>
> 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, anyone can be eaten by candlelight if you like it
>
> Jill

Hehe...

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:50:55 -0600, "jmcquown"
> wrote:

wrote:
>> i was wondering...what can make him impress??although i don't have a
>> boyfriend yet now..I'm just curious!just want to know...reply my
>> message as soon as possible please..
>
>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
>
>Jill

>>what can make him impress??although i don't have a
>> boyfriend yet now..I'm just curious!

Why is there such desperation in your post.....reply as soon as
possible please.....?

Since we don't have a "boyfriend", it becomes impossible to answer
questions like....dietary restrictions....vegetarian...etc.

Date him for three months and get back with us.

"Juds Boy" > wrote in message
...
> fariha wondered;
> > "i was wondering...what can make him
>> impress??although i don't have a boyfriend
>> yet now..I'm just curious!just want to
>> know...reply my message as soon as possible
>> please.. "
> "Wine makes men weak and women beautiful"
> Unknown
> Don't forget the vino !

Not surprisingly, I've always found it to work the other way around....

TammyM

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

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

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> i was wondering...what can make him impress??although i don't have a
> boyfriend yet now..I'm just curious!just want to know...reply my
> message as soon as possible please..

Anything served with beer.

On Mar 20, 7:37 am, wrote:
> i was wondering...what can make him impress??although i don't have a
> boyfriend yet now..I'm just curious!just want to know...reply my
> message as soon as possible please..

When serving food, be sure to use unscented candles.

Karen

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I would think many men would like steak, baked potato fresh cooked
vegetable, salad, and hot rolls, but you would have to ask him first if that
is something he would like to eat, and if it is you would then have to ask
him how he likes his steak cooked and what types of vegetables he prefers.
Or, maybe you could give him four choices to pick from; steak, chicken,
Italian, fish, or vegetarian and go from there.

Go shopping together and then prepare together. Dance together then
love together.

Hold the anchovies )

Bill

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Steve Pope wrote:
<snip>
> 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.

Whaaaaat?? Have you never seen "Tom Jones"? With all the ripping and
tearing and slurp, slurpping? Why, it's guaranteed to sway the most
reticent of dinner guests!

fariha_moh wrote:
> i was wondering...what can make him impress??although i don't have a
> boyfriend yet now..I'm just curious!just want to know

Meat loaf. Mashed. Peas. Beer

On Mar 20, 9:37 am, wrote:
> i was wondering...what can make him impress??although i don't have a
> boyfriend yet now..I'm just curious!just want to know...reply my
> message as soon as possible please..

It depends on what the person likes.

Ward Abbott wrote:
>>> what can make him impress??although i don't have a
>>> boyfriend yet now..I'm just curious!
>
> Why is there such desperation in your post.....reply as soon as
> possible please.....?
>
That's actually a very good observation. Maybe he/she is planning on
kidnapping someone for a nice candlelit dinner Or maybe the last
candlelit dinner was such a dismal failure it prompted the desperate
question just in case.

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:24:34 -0600, "jmcquown"
> wrote:

>That's actually a very good observation. Maybe he/she is planning on
>kidnapping someone for a nice candlelit dinner Or maybe the last
>candlelit dinner was such a dismal failure it prompted the desperate
>question just in case.


....and could be,...the last dinner with candlelight turned out to be a
ghastly disaster. Maybe a the next one will be with a battery
operated Coleman camplight.

Wishing our OP the best. VBG

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> i was wondering...what can make him impress??although i don't have a
> boyfriend yet now..I'm just curious!just want to know...reply my
> message as soon as possible please..

Hmmmmm. I detect an acquisition problem more than a logistics one.
Have
you ruled out bed before dinner? A successful tryst there could mean
you
can feed him anything, excluding dietary restrictions of course.
Subtle
intereviewing between acts could reveal culinary preferences as well
as
whether or not you wish to continue the relationship. If not then you
could
use dinner to terminate. For me it could be based on eggplant.