My main question is: what is your favourite “I’m gonna get me some” food to make?
I knew a guy who knew that a lot of women think it’s sexy when a guy cooks, so he used to insist on making the morning after breakfast, every time. It wasn’t so bad the first time but, ew, man, scrambled eggs with “organic tomatoes and blahblahblah” is just blah after awhile. But he insisted on making breakfast…I insisted on leaving–the food thing was just indicative of a general ego, obtuseness “issues” anyway.
And I was reading this book that had a guy who fancied himself a Romeo and had maybe six dishes he made pretty well, and he’d rotate them like a playa. So it’s made me think, I mean, I LOVE FOOD. I love making new things, I love trendy ridiculous food (but I hate trendy ridiculous prices) and I think that making a good meal is pretty much a large component of foreplay. If you have a food and wine relaxed man on the couch, it’s a simple matter to take advantage of him.
Anyway, given that I’ve rambled on and on about how what you make says something about you, and the general aphrodisiac quality of something yummy in one’s tummy, I’d like to hear waht Dopers like to make their loved ones.
To start it off, here’s a really simple one I like:
Take four figs, Black Mission, or try your favourite (I think I’ve only used Black Mission, but recipes are made to be messed with)
Slice them in half, scoop out their innards but do leave a thin layer of flesh. In a food chopper mix up the guts with an equal amount of mild goat cheese. Stuff the figs, and pop them in the oven at around 375 degrees. Or you can broil them, I haven’t decided which I like best. Anyway, take them out when the cheese has melted and the figs are warm and a little bit cooked themselves. Drizzle a little balsamic vinegar over them and serve.
It’s a pretty fast thing to make, warm and sweet and a little bit rich with the goat cheese, a little salty from that, a little tangy from the balsamic vinegar. Very sexy.
Oh, by the way, that serves two, and it’d be pretty easy to multiply the recipe for more.
oh and I just remembered what made this guy’s eggs so gross. He’d use oyster mushrooms and throw them in with the eggs at the same time as the tomatoes, so everything got kind of watery and metallic tasting. erk.