What was the first meal your partner made you?

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Inspired by the thread on AIBU regarding a meal cooked by a woman's date I wondered what was the first meal your partner made for you.

Mine cooked a pre made (albeit finest range) lasagne, with salad and ciabatta. He used balsamic vinegar as dressing, that I also remember.

I dont think he even made a proper home made lasagne until we lived together but I still appreciated the effort.

Monkfish Thai green curry and a cherry pie!

A McDonald's !

A sausage and mashed potato hedgehog with carrots for spikes! (Our kids were there as he was originally a friend from work!)

Seafood pasta I think.

A roast beef dinner!

Full transparency: I'd made him one and he loved it so much, he wanted me to teach him how to do it 😁

Time well spent as he then went on to cook a roast every Sunday for 25 years, and every Christmas dinner too.

It was November 1985, we were in the first year of university, we are both from very working class backgrounds but his dad liked cooking. He made me pan fried trout with almonds with fresh fish which he gutted, and he left the head on. It was fantastic. I thought it was so fancy. First time I visited his family home in Romford, we found his dad had a pig head in the freezer to make pork pies with

24 years and I'm still waiting ....

Although he always does the BBQ, so I guess steak!

Prawn cocktail, steak and chips and apple pie and cream.

He basically asked me if I wanted to come round 'on Saturday' and cook him tea. I said 'go on then' not sure if he was joking or not, and when I got there there was candles, flowers and a three course meal. Oct 7th 2026 we will have been together 26 years!

Probably steak, it’s 20 years ago now, but I do remember early on he bought round some strawberries he’d dipped in chocolate. I was so impressed .

Years later he admitted his ex wife, separated but still living together while they sold the house, had made them!,

he’s a much better cook now than he was then.

Probably a curry..

I have absolutely no idea. We were expats working abroad with limited cooking facilities. Think the sort of place (not in the Gulf) where a lot of people have house staff (not us 😂), but where eating at dodgy little roadside restaurants and bars is cheap. I have absolutely no recollection of either of us ever cooking for the other in the time we lived there, but I do remember our first actual date, which wasn’t just hanging out with friends. We went to an Italian restaurant.

Cheese on toast but it was really good

Probably toast the morning after DH does most of the cooking now though.

Probably a sort of "spagbol", a term I think fits his meal. He's vegetarian, and he puts all the vegetables into everything he makes, and gets creative with the sauce, and over cooks the pasta. And I love him so much. I read that other thread. After 20 years together I value the vegetables my dh packs into our diet.

His signature spinach bake. It was our first Valentine's Day.

I would have married him for this!

We were early twenties when we met and I remember a lot of takeaways and cooking together. I think fajitas (a meal kit- apparently a dumpable offence) was the first thing we cooked at one of our flats. Happy memories 😊

Full English breakfast

Spaghetti carbonara

My dad cooked a roast chicken dinner for my mum on their first or second date. Had to be good as she married him.

Don’t knock fajitas meal kits! I gave an ex an old El Paso kit that you baked in the oven, he liked it.

He used to just boil chicken, potatoes and carrots for himself every evening, when I joined him I looked at his menu and said: This is all fine. I am going to tweak a lovely continental sauce for the same meal and we are going to be amazing duo together. Hey, it has been 15 years on these sauces and chicks

When we were newly dating, my husband made me dressed crab followed by steak and chips and homemade panna cotta. He set up a little candle lit table in his parents’ snug.

As I, to this day, can barely make a bowl of pasta, I was seriously impressed.

Steak with garlic and cream sauce, with sweet potato mash and a salad. I thought it was very fancy! (Especially because I'm scared of cooking meat so can only do vegetarian).
What was a bit less fancy is that he didn't have a dining table so we had to eat it sitting on the floor!!

Me too ! I think I can honestly say in over 30 years he has only ever cooked the bbq and wouldn’t do that if he could get out of it

Some chicken and rice dish that was full of olives. I had forgotten to mention I didn't like olives very much when he asked if there was anything I didn't like. I politely ate them and didn't tell him, but he does now know.