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What to cook for dinner?

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Today is your girlfriends birthday and you want to cook her dinner as a surprise. What do you make?
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Pot Noodle.

(This joke probably won't work internationally. It's not about drugs.)
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onion2k wrote:Pot Noodle.
Got the horn?
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My answer, without a doubt is beef stifado. Provided you're happy to pour half a bottle of good red wine into a pan and wait 3 hours for the meat to go all yummy and tender it's the best meal in the world!

This is basically the recipe I follow:

http://freespace.virgin.net/ward.mail/stifado.htm

Every time I go to Greece I pig out on this :D

EDIT | The great thing about cooking stifado as that you have to drink the rest of the red wine or it'll go to waste ;)
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Here you go. Who would have thought you guys could cook more then a php-script?

What I'd make? Very basic I think. A good steak, some nice little potatoes and some fresh veggies, some salad to complete it. And a good bottle of red.

It's all about the gesture, nice words and candle light anyway ;)
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Hey that sounds good:) (beef stifado)
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astions wrote:Hey that sounds good:) (beef stifado)
It's good, but you really can't underestimate how long it takes. Once it's in the oven there's not much to do but it's 3 hours cooking in there. Coating all the beef in flour (makes the sauce thicken) and peeling all the shallots is fairly slow going...

It does make the entire house smell really nice though... it gives of a lot of great aromas.

If you're planning on cooking when you get in from work then it simply won't be enough time. I'd go with matthijs' suggestion in which case. Failing that there are loads of simple things I like to make when I'm in a hurry. Tuna salad (as in a proper tuna steak) is quick, healthy and tastes great. I like a lot of stuffed eggplant/capsicum style dishes too. A good 70% of what I eat is vegetarian. I could post some super-quick vegetarian dishes, but heaps of people seem to steer clear of veggie dishes for some reason. I find vegetarian meals really fresh and tasty.
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Hey she can wait lol.

Just kidding, I've got all day and she has to work so it's doable. :)
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You'll spend 3 hours listening to your stomach grumble ;) Couple of tips:

1. Don't cook the meat for very long at all in the pan. It'll cook better if it's near to raw and it cooks in the sauce. Just seal the edges a bit.
2. Don't freak out by the fact it smells like red wine straight from the bottle before you cook it. The sauce changes as it cooks, both in color, flavour, odour and thickness.
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I'd love to hear some veggie dishes. Have been going more and more vegetarian lately. Not only because of animal treatment etc but also after learning that about half the CO2 produced world wide has something to do with our meat consumption.

So a really big salad with some freshly baked bread would do as well for diner. Or burritos are another veggie recipe I sometimes make. You can put almost anything in those things.
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Ok cool, got it.
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If she's thin:
Veal Parmigiana w/ Angel Hair Pasta, italian bread with dipping oil, minestrone soup and cesar salad. To drink... water with lemon and port wine for desert.

If she's fat:
Fried Bologna Sandwiches with macaroni and cheese, homemade chili and blooming onion. Served with a cooly chilled Yoohoo. For desert... Tastycake Junior and chocolate milkshake from Dairy Queen.

Do the above and you'll practically have to beat her off with a stick.
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matthijs wrote:Not only because of animal treatment etc but also after learning that about half the CO2 produced world wide has something to do with our meat consumption.
I heard just as much CO2 is from animal flatulence. So I look at it on the bright side... all these animals are allowing themselves to be killed and eaten by us... so in a sense, their deaths are their way of paying carbon credits. Animals don't have money to buy carbon credits, so they can at least let themselves be eaten.

As far as eating freshly baked bread... if CO2 is your concern... DON'T EAT IT! All bread manufacturers use yeast with their dough to make it rise in the oven. Yeast convert's the dough's sugar molecules into CO2!!!! These CO2 gas bubbles is what makes the bread rise... so all those little holes in the bread you see when you cut the slices... THAT'S WAS FILLED WITH CO2!!!

You know my motto....

"Stop eating bread or the planet will be dead."
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Don't breath either.
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Re: What to cook for dinner?

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Kraft Dinner :P
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