Need a quick way to wow with food!
October 27, 2010 1:17 PM Subscribe
Quick! I'm cooking for five women tonight. My oven is broke...
So it's just going to be stovetop. I'm looking for a simple menu: Salad or Soup, Main Course w/ sides and Dessert. What do you recommend that I prepare to wow these ladies? I am their sexy male chef after all. I'm quite handy in the kitchen but would like to keep it on the slightly simpler side. No time for a big production tonight. Thanks so much!
So it's just going to be stovetop. I'm looking for a simple menu: Salad or Soup, Main Course w/ sides and Dessert. What do you recommend that I prepare to wow these ladies? I am their sexy male chef after all. I'm quite handy in the kitchen but would like to keep it on the slightly simpler side. No time for a big production tonight. Thanks so much!
Crispy Potato-wrapped Salmon with Mustard-Butter Sauce
posted by dersins at 1:23 PM on October 27, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by dersins at 1:23 PM on October 27, 2010 [2 favorites]
(Start with a simple green salad, finish with the highest-quality vanilla icecream / gelato you can buy drizzled with a tiny bit of really good, really aged balsamic vinegar).
posted by dersins at 1:24 PM on October 27, 2010
posted by dersins at 1:24 PM on October 27, 2010
This dish rocks and is pretty easy to throw together once you've assembled all the ingredients. You don't need to brown the chicken with the skin on either; I just remove the skin and throw everything in together on the stovetop.
For the ras-el-hanout I follow this guideline (and use more in your dish than is called for in the recipe; I generally use at least 3TB).
This is fabulous served with a green salad and oranges for dessert and I have also served it to a large group of women and they all adored it. Yum.
posted by ohyouknow at 1:25 PM on October 27, 2010
For the ras-el-hanout I follow this guideline (and use more in your dish than is called for in the recipe; I generally use at least 3TB).
This is fabulous served with a green salad and oranges for dessert and I have also served it to a large group of women and they all adored it. Yum.
posted by ohyouknow at 1:25 PM on October 27, 2010
Main course: Chicken Marsala. All done stove-top. Serve it over angel hair pasta.
Soup? Pumpkin curry. So good. The cilantro and yogurt are optional - I've only ever had pumpkin curry soup plain.
For a side dish you might try this mushroom bruschetta as long as you can toast bread.
For dessert, if you have time you might try chocolate mousse with whipped cream and fresh berries on top.
posted by FAMOUS MONSTER at 1:32 PM on October 27, 2010
Soup? Pumpkin curry. So good. The cilantro and yogurt are optional - I've only ever had pumpkin curry soup plain.
For a side dish you might try this mushroom bruschetta as long as you can toast bread.
For dessert, if you have time you might try chocolate mousse with whipped cream and fresh berries on top.
posted by FAMOUS MONSTER at 1:32 PM on October 27, 2010
This fusilli, leek and spinach pasta is wonderful...and all my girlfriends love it. It was a Food & Wine winner, named fastest to prepare, and it's all stovetop.
Maybe serve with wine, a salad, and some good dark chocolate for dessert?
posted by stellaluna at 1:36 PM on October 27, 2010
Maybe serve with wine, a salad, and some good dark chocolate for dessert?
posted by stellaluna at 1:36 PM on October 27, 2010
2 ideas.
1 - Rice, beans, smoked sausage. Cook the sausage in hot sauce. Enough to flavor, but remember that some of the taste burns off and that the aftertaste is mightier than the initial bite. Throw everything together.
2 - Shrimp, orzo, vegetables, pineapple. Orzo is cooked normally. Vegetables and shrimp in a pan with soy sauce (or something similar). Pineapple gets put in a different pan until the outside just begins to blacken, then is thrown in the the vegetables. Put it all together when you're done.
posted by theichibun at 1:36 PM on October 27, 2010
1 - Rice, beans, smoked sausage. Cook the sausage in hot sauce. Enough to flavor, but remember that some of the taste burns off and that the aftertaste is mightier than the initial bite. Throw everything together.
2 - Shrimp, orzo, vegetables, pineapple. Orzo is cooked normally. Vegetables and shrimp in a pan with soy sauce (or something similar). Pineapple gets put in a different pan until the outside just begins to blacken, then is thrown in the the vegetables. Put it all together when you're done.
posted by theichibun at 1:36 PM on October 27, 2010
risotto!! if you can get some fresh wild mushrooms (good time of year for it) and some good pancetta mmmm! they'll be eating out of your hands :)
posted by supermedusa at 1:37 PM on October 27, 2010
posted by supermedusa at 1:37 PM on October 27, 2010
Premium pork sausages with heaps of swiss chard with pasta. Do sausages in one pan and saute vegetables in the other. Save the leaves of the chard to add last. We've never used bean in ours but chicken stock really puts it over the top.
posted by bonobothegreat at 2:07 PM on October 27, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by bonobothegreat at 2:07 PM on October 27, 2010 [1 favorite]
Tomato and sausage risotto. OMG I can eat an entire recipe by myself.
posted by rhapsodie at 2:09 PM on October 27, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by rhapsodie at 2:09 PM on October 27, 2010 [1 favorite]
Dinner salad
Seafood Au Gratin
Start with a simple white sauce
Stir in enough parmesean and/or cheddar to suit your taste and thicken the sauce to almost a fondue consistancy.( use corn starch in cold water)
Lightly saute some scallops, or shrimp, or (yes, even some crabmeat) in white wind and olive oil, then add to the sauce to finish off.
Saute some jullenned carrots and green beans
Make some rice/ risotto
Serve the seafood sauce over the rice
Get some ice cream or a bakery pie for dessert and lesson your stress
prepare to be kissed !
posted by lobstah at 2:12 PM on October 27, 2010
Seafood Au Gratin
Start with a simple white sauce
Stir in enough parmesean and/or cheddar to suit your taste and thicken the sauce to almost a fondue consistancy.( use corn starch in cold water)
Lightly saute some scallops, or shrimp, or (yes, even some crabmeat) in white wind and olive oil, then add to the sauce to finish off.
Saute some jullenned carrots and green beans
Make some rice/ risotto
Serve the seafood sauce over the rice
Get some ice cream or a bakery pie for dessert and lesson your stress
prepare to be kissed !
posted by lobstah at 2:12 PM on October 27, 2010
Salad: Sliced baby beets sprinkled with crumbled goat cheese and balsamic vinegar. (You can get vacuum-packed cooked baby beets in the produce section of a Trader Joe's or some other supermarkets.)
Main: Mushroom risotto.
Dessert: Vin Santo with biscotti.
posted by Daily Alice at 2:22 PM on October 27, 2010
Main: Mushroom risotto.
Dessert: Vin Santo with biscotti.
posted by Daily Alice at 2:22 PM on October 27, 2010
This is probably too late, but this meal would wow anybody. It is light, oven-free, and the majority of it can be prepared well before your guests arrive. The main course is served cold, the mousse will be in the fridge, and the soup can be heated up on the stove!
Appetizer: Caramelized Mushroom and Leek Soup With Crisp Cheese - It says to bake it, but you could just have the cheese on the table for people to use (unless you have a blowtorch).
Main Course: Salad Nicoise--very impressive and a whole main course in one. Serve with warm french bread and a plate of prosciutto and cantaloupe! To warm the bread, I'd wrap it in foil, elevate it on the bottom of a tall pot on medium heat, and turn over after 5 minutes.
Dessert: Chocolate Mousse--this recipe looks easy and can be made the day before. Put some fresh raspberries/strawberries on top with a mint sprig. If you are feeling ambitious, whip your own cream.
posted by 200burritos at 6:13 PM on October 27, 2010
Appetizer: Caramelized Mushroom and Leek Soup With Crisp Cheese - It says to bake it, but you could just have the cheese on the table for people to use (unless you have a blowtorch).
Main Course: Salad Nicoise--very impressive and a whole main course in one. Serve with warm french bread and a plate of prosciutto and cantaloupe! To warm the bread, I'd wrap it in foil, elevate it on the bottom of a tall pot on medium heat, and turn over after 5 minutes.
Dessert: Chocolate Mousse--this recipe looks easy and can be made the day before. Put some fresh raspberries/strawberries on top with a mint sprig. If you are feeling ambitious, whip your own cream.
posted by 200burritos at 6:13 PM on October 27, 2010
So what did you end up preparing?
posted by dersins at 12:09 AM on October 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by dersins at 12:09 AM on October 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
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posted by roomthreeseventeen at 1:21 PM on October 27, 2010 [1 favorite]