Preparing For A Romantic Evening Does Not Mean You Are Getting Soft
So you are not very good at the whole touchy feely side of things; you love her, but mushy stuff is not your style. That is perfectly okay, she obviously likes you for who you are, but every once in a while it is nice to astound them with something a little different. You can actually accomplish this and not even have to turn in your man card.
Women really like the idea that you went out of your way to do something special for them with your own hands, not just that you found something they might like and bought it for them. There are certainly enough commercial options out there to keep you lady happy, capitalism has not lost the notion that buying something is easier than making something, and they are more than happy to help us with this problem. Nevertheless, you can do something that she will remember for a very long time without taking cooking classes or reading some king of homemaking magazine.
For starters, pass on the purchased firewood for a change, grab you poulan chainsaw or similar type, and head out for some place you can get your firewood yourself. This gets you outdoors doing the manly thing you like and still call it part of the preparation. Once you have felled you tree, cut into lengths and then split into firewood, it is time to stack the wood in your truck and head back to the crib. By now you should have that wonderful warm glow from using the muscles in honest work; the evening preparation is off to a great start.
Load that firewood into the truck and head on back to the house. Unload the wood and stack it for future use, carefully preparing the fireplace for later, you will want to have it all ready for when she arrives. At this point it is important to take care of all those little details like starter kindling and matches; you want this evening to work out smoothly.
Now the tough part, you are going to prepare a meal that both you and she will enjoy, and do it with your own hands. The first step is to get the required elements of this meal, and resist the temptation to purchase a ready-made meal from the supermarket, it is not a bad idea, but tonight you are doing this all yourself. If you do not already have one, it is time to head to the local kitchen store a pick up an electric rice cooker; they are excellent functional devices at a reasonable price. If you already own one, we move on.
Naturally, you are going to need a small bag of Japanese rice (not long grain or wild rice). While you are at the grocery store, pick up a couple of cans of cream of mushroom soup, and your choice of broiled chicken, uncooked scallops or shrimp, whatever you and she like. If you have different tastes; she does not like scallops, but you love them; get both, the meal will still work out great. Go to the frozen food section and pick out some vegetables that you can microwave. Pick up a bag of shredded cheese (your choice or the mixture bags.) A pre-made tossed salad large enough for two is not cheating, a loaf of French bread and a bottle of wine and you are ready.
Back home, it is time to take care of you. But first, read the instructions for preparing the rice and set it and turn it on to cook. With the machine, you can not fail. At this point you should be ready for a good shower, and all you have to add is the standard morning ritual, even though it is still the afternoon. Taking the time after you shower to get your hair in some semblance of shape and shaving (unless she digs your beard) can go a long way and requires little effort. This would be a good time to break out that bottle of cologne, or man perfume as we usually call it, which is why it remains on the shelf unused. It is not that she does not care for your smell, it is the idea of something different that we are leveraging here.
Now that you are ready, the rice should be as well. Time for the magic part of cooking, if you think of it as a chemistry lab, you will be fine. Get out a pan that is safe to use in the oven, which you now preheat to 325 degrees. In the pan, scoop out enough rice to cover the bottom of the pan to a depth of about an inch and a half. Now open the cream of mushroom and cover the rice, but remember you are not making soup, so do not overdue the sauce. Now place your selected topping, shredding the chicken if you bought a whole cooked breast, or distribute the scallops or shrimp evenly. Now sprinkle the shredded cheese over the mixture evenly and cover with aluminum foil. Place the vegetables in a microwaveable bowl and the pan in the preheated oven at last 35 minutes before dinner. You are ready to start the fire.
For the final step, set the table in front of the fire with your finest dishware, pour the wine and set a glass of water and you are ready for the evening. When the rice has cooked for about thirty minutes (the seafood should be fully cooked and the cheese bubbling and slightly browned (not burned so be careful to check every five minutes after the first 25) remove the pan and the aluminum foil and let it cool. Now you have a perfect romantic meal made by hand to impress her, and it was done in manly style including the use of your homelite chainsaw.
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