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

Lasagne. I'd just got back from six months living and working in Italy, so it was a proper lasagne: six hours for the ragù (none of this mince and Dolmio crap), homemade bechamel, homemade pasta, two kinds of cheese on top. He bought a lovely valpolicella to go with and even wore a suit. It was our fourth or fifth date. He says that's when he decided to spend the rest of his life with me. Reader, I married him.

Pie and mash with mushy peas.

I had just moved in to my new house and it was quick easy and did not require me to unpack the whole kitchen.

Homemade pizza-Mr Pompomcat could choose his own toppings that way! good luck @Mollie85 - you sound very excited

I made him a chocolate cake. It was Valentine’s Day. I am NOT a baker but I procured a heart shaped tin and that alone inspired me and gave me the (false) confidence to present to him a rock hard, dry, flat, brown cake. If I had bounced it off the floor, it wouldn’t have shed a crumb. The poor man ate it and complimented me for it. I learned as time went on that he would and still eats just about anything!’

Haha at Fray Bentos pie, by the way!

Jamie Oliver's spicy sausage pasta. We still absolutely love it.

I think it was spanakopita with rice

Thanks pompom. I'm a bit nervous too- that might be another thread though.

www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pasta-recipes/proper-blokes-sausage-fusilli/

I call it "spicy sausage pasta" because we add extra chilli flakes and because I feel annoyed about the name!

We cooked spaghetti Bolognese together at 4am after a night out.
The 1st meal I cooked on my own for him was pork chops in a mustard sauce with mash and sauteed veg followed by trifle (his fave pudding)

Full English breakfast, we didn't go out to dinner he just stayed over

I'm clearly a philistine as there are dishes on this thread I've never even heard of!

I blame my mum for a diet of crispy pancakes and chips. And arctic roll. Beige was the only colour we ate

Although to be fair to mum- if we had guests; a mint vienetta was purchased. The height of sophistication in 1980's Guernsey....

...My brother and I got still got arctic roll...

Risotto- a stable in my family. He’d never heard of it before (from a meat and 2 veg family) which I was shocked by and later into our relationship he told me hated it! Hasn’t eaten it since (I make it for myself though )

Thanks for the recipes

I cooked spaghetti with avocado, prawns and coriander. (Much more delicious than it sounds). It wasn't till a couple of months later he admitted to not liking seafood...avocados...or coriander...
We're married now. If he's a keeper, he'll love whatever you make him... unless it's disgusting in which case you laugh and order in pizza.
But lasagne sounds perfect

I made him a Balti, I used a jar of pataks sauce and he bloody loved it

10 years on and he now eats food he never ate before (he never had risotto, fish not from a chippie, lentils or Japanese). Still doesn't like herbs or avocado though. 😀

Parsnip soup He then got a dose of the runs.
That was over 30 years ago so he must have forgiven me.

macaroni broccoli cheese using only a microwave. He later confessed he can't stand macaroni cheese but 'will eat anything for a shag'.

Steak with dauphinoise potatoes and green beans with peppercorn sauce I think. I love cooking for him because he’s a horrific cook and reacts every single night as if he can’t believe a person could make something that actually tastes acceptable!! Even if it’s just a jacket spud

Chicken and tarragon pie, creamy mash and steamed veg followed with salted caramel apple crumble and chantilly cream. He asked me to marry him and I thought he was joking. We went ring shopping the next day.

Pesto pasta. I’m veggie so it’s a really delicious dish filled with roasted veggies and olives, I love it and so did he!

Lovely stories 😍.... I welled up at the couple together 29 years after the meal in question....
I've blanked my memories tbh after getting a 'good effort' for cooking Christmas dinner. Tosser.

Fully intend making new ones if I meet someone worthy!!

maras it was your post actually...x

Lasagne (just basic dolmio jobby) with (shop bought) profiteroles for pudding. Did the trick - happily married now with two children and he does most of the cooking