Can you taste the love tonight?

silkygreenbelly — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:27:28 -0800

RecipeFilter: Cooking for two people. Looking for some delicious and deliciously simple recipes for a special date night. (the kind of date night where you don't leave the apartment ever) Additional criteria inside. Very Important: Needs to be relatively easy. We have good equipment, but not more than basics. The person preparing the food is novice level.

Important: Nothing like roasted garlic cloves that would result in noxious breath.

Important: Enough, but not more than enough, for two people. Prior experience has taught us that we do not do well with leftovers.

Highly desirable: Fresh ingredients. This is for a special date night, so special ingredients would be fine. Pike Place Market (Seattle) is a few minutes away.

No food allergies. My personal preference is that nothing but dessert is overly sweet (example: I do not like raspberry vinaigrette on salads).

Good recipes with fewest possible ingredients.

flibbertigibbet — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:56:48 -0800

What are the best minimal (2-6) ingredient recipes you have? Yes, I've searched the archives. But although they are great questions (especially this one, which is similar to my question, but with a very different focus) they're not quite what I want. I've also seen the NYT's 101 Summer Recipes. I could google recipes, but I trust the recommendations of MeFites (who seem to be predominantly foodies) more than I trust PageRank.

Bonus points if they travel well, and don't contain some of the foods that immediately get stuck in globs in braces (like just about every bread known to man) when you take a bite. Yes, I can cut, but knives aren't always available when I'm out and about, and it gets... impractical (read: messy) to cut large sandwiches up.

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Can you taste the love tonight?

Good recipes with fewest possible ingredients.