Online dating enables you to meet beautiful women, but what you do in real life determines how they will feel about you. Cooking for a woman is a great way to connect with her, appealing to all her senses, and a great way to demonstrate your independence and generosity. Since it probably happens in your place it is a great excuse to invite her to an environment where you are at your most relaxed and able to act with confidence and humour. The way to a woman's heart may well be though her mouth, and cooking a meal for her is a great place to start. This article looks at a challenging meal that I once had to prepare.
The Challenge
Agnes G is an exceptionally beautiful woman that belongs in a James Bond movie, and two months previously had sent me the "let's be friends" text and drove her sports car into the sunset, never to be heard of again - at least until a few days prior to this article, when I got in touch with her again about something else and she seemed happy to meet up: although clearly not with any romantic potential. Nevertheless, and for reasons that reason knows nothing of, I found myself wanting to make a great impression on her. With food.
Initially, I resolved to make her favourite desert but this quickly escalated into making her a full meal. What makes this more of a challenge was that she has dated a series of millionaire alpha males, and is familiar with some of the best restaurants in Europe. And as a professional dietitian, she has a black belt in nutrition. More than I can chew? Perhaps.
But a man stands up to face his challenges. I would be cooking in my own house, so I would have a home advantage.
The Meal
This would be a vegetarian affair. That way no one except the most ardent carnivore would be unhappy. She didn't seem to exhibit any similarities with Ted Nugent, so I should be safe enough.
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Starter
I decided on a Carrot and Coriander soup, finding the recipe in an old book called The Soup Bible. This was surprisingly easy to make, wholesome and tasty. When she took the first spoonful she purred approvingly "....mmmm, coriander!" and I knew I had got off the starting grid successfully. Now it was up to the main course to keep up the momentum.
Main Course
I made a Quinoa Veggie Burger in a Focaccia bun, with Red Hummus, Mushroom Pate, Pepper and Olive Salsa on a bed of Rocket Leaves and Shredded Beetroot. This was an adaptation of a recipe from the flexitarian goddess Camilla Saulsbury and her Enlightened Cooking website.
This has all the major food groups covered - low fat, mainly unsaturated, complex carbohydrate, protein with all the essential amino acids, and plenty of fibre, vitamins and minerals. More importantly, there was a great variety of colours, aromas, flavours and textures and the crunchy focaccia meant that all five senses were engaged in this meal.
Desert
My secret weapon: Coconut Panna Cotta with a Mango Lime Sauce.
I knew that she liked panna cotta from a particularly delightful meal we had enjoyed the first time we met and my research led me to Camilla Saulsbury again for a great vegetarian version. Classically panna cotta is a firm cream desert and would have been made with gelatine to help make it firm up. Since gelatine is made from collagen derived from skins, bones and connective tissue of various animals, many non-vegetarians aren't too keen on eating it either.
This scored exceptionally well. Not too sweet, great consistency. The secret here was to make a trial version at least two days before to confirm the recipe works, and make the desert 24 hours in advance so it can just be pulled from the fridge and smothered in mango sauce -and there was almost a full portion of your 5-a-day fruit and veg target in the mango and lime sauce, so nutrition points too.
Coffee
Get proper coffee, not instant. The whole ritual of preparing the grind and heating the cafe tierre plunger with the associated aroma and visual effect is far too good to miss out on. The same for tea - I use a glass tea pot where you can see the leaves tumble in the amber Assam goodness.
I served this with a fresh sticky ginger cake with fresh lemon icing that had been made the day before with a recipe from the BBC. It was monumentally good. An ideal catalyst for "after dinner speaking".
Top tip: Have some good quality chocolate handy too.
Post-Match Analysis
On the whole, I thought things went rather well.
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