What is the best new years eve dinner for me and my bf????!
What is the best new years eve dinner for me and my bf????
im cooking for new years and i have noooooooooooo idea what to cook and ideas....i want it to be romantic
Answers:
Some nice steaks...T-bone or porterhouse..smothered with mushrooms and onions...Baked potatoes with sour cream...broccoli with cheese sauce...Yum! Now I'm hungry!
Personally, It think him cooking you dinner would be romantic. But, I love to cook and I'd try a Chateaubriand for two, maybe a couple lobster tails, a great tossed salad, warm fresh bread, some asparagus. Oops, forgot desert and that, of course, would be you.
Appetizers:Salad
Main course:Some type of noodles
dessert: creme brule
stuffed turkey breast or chicken breast, rice pilaf and some nice vedgies
chocolate lava cakes, fresh raspberries and whipped cream or maybe just some fresh fruit like grapes and tangerines, served creatively...a-hem!
a nice Chardonnay with dinner or just do a White Shiraz, served with the fuit, like The Little Penguin
candle light
I'd go with some pasta, especially if your going out later and might be drinking some. Some nice spaghetti or Lasagna, some French bread and some salad.
In Texas it's black eye peas and cornbread, even though I do don't like that. Steak, Baked potatoes, tossed salad rolls and apple crisp.
For a salad, you can try something a little different - some arugula, diced pear, crumbled blue cheese, walnuts, and sprinkle with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. The sweet fruit, nuts, and vinegar and cheese play off each other really well.
For a neato appetizer, take fresh figs (if you can find them), only 1 or 2 for each of you. Cut them half way and stuff with soft goat cheese. Wrap in pancetta or cured ham, and broil for about 6 minutes. Drizzle with honey. Mmmmm! Very rich, you won't want more than 1 or 2.
For a dinner with the BF, unless he's a vegetarian, steak always works. Sometimes around the holidays butchers will have filet on sale. I'd buy a whole or half if it is, slice it and feeze the extras. I like to wrap peppered bacon around mine and broil plain or with gorgonzola on top.
If you both like fish, take a talapia filet (an evironmetnally and ecologically responsible fish; unlike Sea Bass) and spread pesto over one side. Roll up and tooth pick it. Broil with a lemon slice over it.
appetizer: deep fry some artichoke hearts and mushrooms and serve with ranch.
spaghetti
sauce,
1/2 lb ground beef
2 italian sausage links (take out of casing)
brown this with 1/2 onion chopped, 1/4 bell pepper chopped.
add jar of your favorite sauce. I add more oregeno and basil to mine.
serve with salad and some really good garlic bread. WM carries a brand called Ecce Panis (awesome)
Serve a Merot or Ruffino Chianti red wine.
For dessert taramasu.
Crab Newburg
Serves 2
Delectable crab in a creamy sherry sauce served on a bed of rice
Ingredients:
6 oz. (175g) white crabmeat
3 oz. (75g) long grain rice
quarter pint (150ml) double cream
1 oz. (25g) butter
2 egg yolks
4 tbsps. sherry
salt
paprika
Cooking Instructions:
Melt the butter in a frying pan then add the crab meat and fry gently for 2 minutes
Put the egg yolks and the cream in a bowl and beat together
Stir in the sherry into the crabmeat then slowly stir in the egg and cream mixture
Season with salt and add a pinch of paprika
Cook gently for 5 minutes without boiling
Boil the rice in salted water until tender, drain and arrange on warmed serving platter
Arrange the crab mixture in the center of the rice and serve
any nice green veggie:
asparagus, broccoli
Sexy Strawberry Surprise
Serves 4
Succulent strawberries laced with brandy and topped with vanilla flavoured whipped cream
Ingredients:
1 lb. (450g) strawberries
5 fl. oz. (150ml) double cream
3 fl. oz. (90ml) brandy
half a teaspoon of vanilla essence
Cooking Instructions:
Hull the strawberries and place in a bowl
Pour over the brandy and put in the refrigerator for an hour
Divide the strawberries between 4 individual serving glasses
Whip the double cream with added vanilla essence until stiff and spoon over the strawberries
honey and brandy drink
Honey and brandy with fresh lemon and orange juice, served over crushed ice and topped with lemonade. Maybe this was the original aphrodisiac?
Ingredients:
Juice of 1 orange
Juice of 1 lemon
2 tbsp. clear honey
5 fl.oz. (150ml) brandy
lemonade
crushed ice
Cooking Instructions:
Measure the brandy into a jug and add the honey orange and lemon juice
Mix well then pour in to chilled glasses containing crushed ice
Top with lemonade to taste and serve
Try fonduing. You'll need a fondue pot or two and usually you can get those at Target for $15.
Course 1: Cheese fondue
Course 2: Salad
Course 3: Meat and vegetable fondue (steak, lobster, potatoes, etc.)
Course 4: Chocolate fondue with strawberries
Rule for the evening: you can only eat the foods that the other person feeds you.
I did this with a former boyfriend, and it lead to an amazing New Year's evening. Very sensual.
Check the websites below for some fondue recipes.
My new hubby & I are having cornish hens with an herb rub in a rotisserie...if you don't have one, the oven is good.
I'm making stuffing & baked potatoes, a big tossed salad, crusty french bread, and cheesecake for dessert.
All eaten by candlelight, of course!
Good luck!
it is tradition to have pork&sauerkraut at midnight, for luck in
the coming new year.
I would make a pan of lasagne maybe a day ahead so you can fuss over a great recipe. There are so many out there, even simple search on yahoo will give you lots of choices.
That way, you can pop it in the oven when you need it, make up a little salad, warm the bread with the lasagne... you won't be rushing around and your kitchen will be pretty and clean. While the lasagna is baking, you can enjoy cheese and crackers, maybe some grapes and sliced apple with a glass of Champagne (keep the rest of the bottle chilled for midnight toasting). Serve the lasagne with Chianti Riserva, of course.
Your boyfriend might enjoy picking up a dessert on his way to your house. Maybe he can be trusted with selecting Champagne, too.
If he doesn't bring Cooks, he may be a keeper. If he does bring Cooks, that's good for steaming mussels. Be discrete.