What is a good dinner I can cook for my wife?
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I would love a nice and easy recipe that I can cook for my wife as a thank you for all the wonderful things she does for me. I’m not a good cook so something easy to follow. She has no special dietary requirements and would eat most types of food. I would love some Mexican or West Indian types of foods but any idea you think would be great.
This should make your wife happy. Its starts of with a nice mexican stew and cornbread. And simple yet delicious carnitas for the entree. If you don’t want to cook that much, the stew and cornbread is plenty for a wonderful meal.
Mexican Chicken Stew:
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 medium onion, roughly chopped
4 large cloves garlic, roughly chopped
2 jalapenos, seeded and sliced
1 tablespoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon dried cumin
1 (28-ounce) can chopped tomatoes
3 cups shredded cooked chicken
Few dashes Worcestershire sauce
3 to 4 cups chicken stock
1 lime
1 cup cooked white rice
Kosher salt
Sour cream, for garnish
Fresh cilantro leaves, for garnish
Heat oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and saute for 1 to 2 minutes. Add garlic and jalapeno and sweat until soft and translucent. Add spices and cook for 1 to 2 minutes until fragrant and aromatic. Add tomatoes, chicken, Worcestershire, and stock. Bring to a simmer and cook 20 minutes. Cut the lime in half, squeeze juice into the pot, and then add the juiced halves as well. Add white rice and cook 5 minutes longer to warm rice through. Season, to taste, with salt. Ladle into bowls and garnish with sour cream and cilantro.
Mexican Cornbread:
1 cup yellow cornmeal
1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 large egg
1 cup whole milk or buttermilk
1/3 cup sour cream
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 tablespoons chopped jalapenos, or to taste
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
Grease an 8-inch square pan, cast iron skillet, or cornbread mold. In a medium bowl, combine cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. To dry mixture, add egg, milk, sour cream, oil, and jalapenos and mix until smooth. Pour into prepared pan. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until golden.
Carnitas:
1 (3 pound) boneless pork butt
1 cup water
Flour or corn tortillas
2 cups refried beans, warmed
1 lime, cut into 6 wedges
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves
1 small onion, chopped
1 cup salsa
1 avocado, peeled, pitted, and sliced
Cut the pork into 4 pieces and place in a deep pot. Add the water to the pot, cover, and cook over medium-high heat until the meat is tender, about 45 minutes to 1 hour. Remove the pork from the pot and chop into bite-sized pieces.
Warm the flour or corn tortillas. Spread some of the beans on each tortilla and top with some of the pork. Squeeze a wedge of lime over each tortilla. Add the cilantro, onion, salsa, and avocado.
July 12th, 2009 at 6:08 am
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July 12th, 2009 at 6:19 am
easy quick cheap different and tasty
500grs of fetuccini (i supposed you know how to cook pasta, "al dente"). fried a lot of chopped garlic with some red pepper and salt at low heat for 1 minute (use olive oil, be sure the heat is low).
Serve the pasta and put the fried garlic over, ounce served in plates add some more olive oil, some ground pepper, some salt and oregano if you have.
Would be nice some toasted bread (italian if its possible) with olive oil and salt.
A bottle wine will do the rest.
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July 12th, 2009 at 6:50 am
TRY A NICE PASTA WITH (BOTTLED STORE BOUGHT) ITIALIAN SAUCE TOPPED WITH GRADED CHEESE-EASY,FILLING AND GOOD TASTING-Acooking tip-to make PERFECT pasta,bring water to boil add pasts bring water back to boil while stirring pasta-let boil for ONE MINUTE ONLY -cover pan with tight lid REMOVE FROM STOVE BURNER.let it sit untouched-lid on FOR TEN MINUTES.remove lid carefully stir -drain well,put on plate top with sauce and graded cheese(you can also buy frozen meatballs if you want . set table ADD FLOWERS AND LIGHT CANDLE.SEAT BEAUTIFUL WIFE THEN SERV FOOD.
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something my no cook husband used to do
July 12th, 2009 at 7:37 am
This should make your wife happy. Its starts of with a nice mexican stew and cornbread. And simple yet delicious carnitas for the entree. If you don’t want to cook that much, the stew and cornbread is plenty for a wonderful meal.
Mexican Chicken Stew:
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 medium onion, roughly chopped
4 large cloves garlic, roughly chopped
2 jalapenos, seeded and sliced
1 tablespoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon dried cumin
1 (28-ounce) can chopped tomatoes
3 cups shredded cooked chicken
Few dashes Worcestershire sauce
3 to 4 cups chicken stock
1 lime
1 cup cooked white rice
Kosher salt
Sour cream, for garnish
Fresh cilantro leaves, for garnish
Heat oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and saute for 1 to 2 minutes. Add garlic and jalapeno and sweat until soft and translucent. Add spices and cook for 1 to 2 minutes until fragrant and aromatic. Add tomatoes, chicken, Worcestershire, and stock. Bring to a simmer and cook 20 minutes. Cut the lime in half, squeeze juice into the pot, and then add the juiced halves as well. Add white rice and cook 5 minutes longer to warm rice through. Season, to taste, with salt. Ladle into bowls and garnish with sour cream and cilantro.
Mexican Cornbread:
1 cup yellow cornmeal
1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 large egg
1 cup whole milk or buttermilk
1/3 cup sour cream
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 tablespoons chopped jalapenos, or to taste
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
Grease an 8-inch square pan, cast iron skillet, or cornbread mold. In a medium bowl, combine cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. To dry mixture, add egg, milk, sour cream, oil, and jalapenos and mix until smooth. Pour into prepared pan. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until golden.
Carnitas:
1 (3 pound) boneless pork butt
1 cup water
Flour or corn tortillas
2 cups refried beans, warmed
1 lime, cut into 6 wedges
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves
1 small onion, chopped
1 cup salsa
1 avocado, peeled, pitted, and sliced
Cut the pork into 4 pieces and place in a deep pot. Add the water to the pot, cover, and cook over medium-high heat until the meat is tender, about 45 minutes to 1 hour. Remove the pork from the pot and chop into bite-sized pieces.
Warm the flour or corn tortillas. Spread some of the beans on each tortilla and top with some of the pork. Squeeze a wedge of lime over each tortilla. Add the cilantro, onion, salsa, and avocado.
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July 12th, 2009 at 7:52 am
1. Get some good Italian prosecco (2 bottles). Chill… You can drink this from beginning to end of your meal. This way you won’t have to set out three different glasses. Even better, don’t serve water this way you’ll need only two glasses!
3. Toast some of that good bread you’ll be eating through your dinner. Cut 4 pieces to make crostini – 2 x 4 inches pieces… toast them. Mash up 8 black pitted baked black olives (get a small container from your Deli), with an anchovy, a few table spoons of olive oil & and a pinch of oregano. Put this spread on the toast a few minutes before serving it AND serve it when you put the water on to boil for the pasta. Oh, open the prosecco and pour into flutes (although water glasses in a pinch work fine too.
2. Pasta with olive oil, garlic and hot pepper is nothing less than an erotic dish. But you must not serve more than 100 grams (80 being ideal) you’ll over feed your selves. I prefer linguini…. You’ve already seen the instructions up above – follow them.
3. Eighty grams of pasta is fine but you’ll need a second. Meat or fish? If your supermarket or local deli makes baked chicken the get that. Have them cut it up for you (if they won’t then make up a sob story telling them you don’t have a good knife at home).
Fresh tuna steaks are easy as heck to make if they are available. Get your cast iron pan as hot as you can, sprinkle some good salt into the pan (4 pinches) and lay the steaks into the pan – it’s going to smoke so turn the exhaust up to max and open a window if you can. Count 90 seconds on one side and 90 on the other.
4. You’ll have already made your salad ahead of time. An avocado would do fine here. A few wedges on the plate with the tuna would be fine.
5. Fruit – mango, papaya, strawberries….
and 6…… you may have wanted to get an extra bottle of prosecco!!!!!
PS- Mexican food is great and I love West Indian food too but my tips are to help you keep things simple and sexy.
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July 12th, 2009 at 7:58 am
It is the thought that counts not what is on the menu!!!! An easy meal would be setting up a picnic in your lounge room. Make sandwiches & finger foods that you can’t burn or ruin, & have a nice bottle of wine. Whatever you do I am sure she will appreciate it… You are sweet & thoughtful, do you give lessons??? (there are plenty of men who need them)!
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July 12th, 2009 at 8:33 am
This is called Burrito pie
one pound of ground chuck or ground round
one small can of sliced olives
one small can of green chilis
one 16oz jar of taco sauce
one can of refried beans
one bag of mexican cheese
Brown ground meat and drain…then add one can of refried beans…one 16oz jar of taco sauce, and one small can of sliced black olives and one small can of green chilis …cook a few mins…then in a baking pan layer flour tortillias then meat mixture then mexican cheese(comes in a bag) then tortillas, the meat, the cheese and so on….bake at 425 about 15 mins…you can top with favorite taco toppings (lettuce sour cream ect.)…this is so easy and so good!
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