To ask what the first meal you ever cooked DP?

[Mollie85]

Background - been on four dates. He's really fantastic. Really fab actually. He cooked for me on Saturday - lemony chicken and a kind of fragrant sticky rice. He did chocolate creme brûlée for after, which was lovely. Simple but super tasty.

My "speciality" is lasagne. It's not very "attractive" though...

Can I ask what you first cooked for your significant other and how it went? Any tips? I know we both hate mushrooms...

Lighthearted - so comments about impressing men with cooking and being the "little woman" are unnecessary for this thread. No bun fights unless they are olive focaccia... - this is something I want to do and want to do well

Thanks in advance

pesto cod, crushed baby potatoes with garlic & roasted Mediterranean veg with chocolate soufflé

VladmirsPoutine

That sounds amazing, why haven’t I thought of that before????

Heinz tomato soup and cheese on toast - he turned up at lunchtime sometime before we got together :)

June 1969.I was 15.
2 grilled lamb chops.Smash potato.Tinned garden peas.Bisto gravy.
48 years on it's our retro favourite but with frozen mash and peas.

Thai green curry. I’d cooked it (from a jar) and boasted to him about how good it was. He called my bluff and told me to cook it for him then... had to learn pretty quick. I did, then cooked it for him. It was lush I confessed after and cook it for him quite regularly now!

Trout with Almonds for DH 25 years ago. Can't remember what we had for afters.

DH led me to believe he was brilliant at roast dinner. Everything was black and overdone. I taught him to cook and he now does most of it.

Well I'm planning on bacon sandwiches on Sunday morning...

Thanks for all the ideas

What he describes when we laugh about it now as 'milky fish'. It was a disaster. We were both poor cooks when we met but much better now.

After our daughter was born 6 years later the first non baby related thing we did together when we were comfortable leaving her upstairs asleep was cook a curry from scratch. Its what I would cook to impress now

I really can’t remember! I did make a banana loaf cake though and still do ten years on.

I wanted to impress so went for beef bourginon.

Spent ages trawling the shops for special cuts of meat, brandy, special wine and peeling loads of bastarding shallots. Cooked it and it turned into grey/brown solid mush.

Threw it away and bought steaks in a panic which he ended up cooking!!

The very first time I had just bought in a packet of filled tortellini because it was quick, easy and we hadn't known each other long and I figured everybody liked pasta. We never actually got round to having it which he still teases me about thirteen years later.

When I finally did get around to cooking a proper meal for him it was sausages, mash and onion gravy. Can't go wrong.

God are you supposed to remember these things? Probably a Pizza Express pizza, m&s two dine for a tenner (actually not sure they had been invented) or something similar!
Cook what you are confident with, this is not the time to be trying ou5 new recipes!

Spicy pork chops with savoury rice and some potatoes with herbs - and burnt it, I burn tea more often than not and he claims to like things 'well done' I'm sure he says it to make me feel better!

potato skins, chicken satay, bottle of red and Band of Brothers on the telly. Sigh. Thirteen years married next week

I made steak and chips in my parents house. I’d never cooked before. I put the plates in the oven to warm them up as the recipe said to do that. Not normally having warm plates I didn’t realise they would get so hot so quickly. I took them out of the oven with my bare hands.

Ouchy.

Breakfast , a full English

Absolutely no idea, it was about 35 years ago. One of the first time he came to mums he managed to knock over an entire platter of sandwiches, then, one of the first meals I cooked for him (lamb chops, cauliflower cheese and roast potatoes) he also managed to knock off the table...

Chicken and sweet potato 'bodge' curry.. totally not an attractive plate of food, but tasted amazing. To be honest, I think he'd have appreciated anything I made- he lives alone and doesn't tend to cook proper food much, so that plate of homemade dinner went down really well.

Mykryptonite, I scanned read that really quickly as "badger" curry ... I've never even seen a badger let alone cooked one!

Chilli con Carne. My specialty even to this day. Followed by a homemade apple pie as he'd told me it was his favorite.

Macaroni cheese with only two ingredients, macaroni and cheese.

Thanks for all the ideas! I love the idea of a beef Wellington, but it has that mushroom mush in it... I wonder if that's replaceable...?

I did sea bass with chorizo and rosemary baby new potatoes once with a v light garlic buttery sauce - I may try that?

"Food for thought" so thanks plus it's great to see the retro ones.

My brother "cooked" a fray bentos tinned pie, tinned new potatoes with tinned peas.... she married him anyway

Fish fingers and waffles.

Both of which got burnt as we were too busy shagging

Vegetable lasagne. He said it was wonderful. About 6 years later he said it wasn't actually that wonderful but that saying anything else would have been daft. Hmmm.

He's told me that his favourite dessert is "key lime pie".
From his favourite restaurant.
In Florida.

Raspberry fool it is!

Actually, I did buy some fresh limes and condensed milk... just in case I felt brave

Did I mention he is gorgeous