This Friday, October 2, 2009, is mine and my boyfriend’s 1 year anniversary. I want to start a scrapbook of "us" and update it with him yearly, but I also want to make him dinner. I’ve done the normal steak and potatoes and vegetable multiple times for special occasions. Does anyone have any good recipes for this type of occasion that don’t require a ton of money? I’d like to do an appetizer, like a salad or something, main course, and some kind of desert. Nothing too complicated or expensive. Thanks in advance for all the help! 
I made vegetarian chili for my boyfriend on one of our first dates, and look who’s still here two years later…but I know you want to do something a little fancier. For your main course, roast a chicken. It’s delicious and so incredibly easy, plus it looks beautiful on the table. You’d just need a little one, or even two cornish hens if you want to be extra-fancy. Remove the giblets from your bird(s) then rinse them inside and out and pat dry with paper towels. rub under the skin of the breast and all over the outside of the bird(s) with room-temperature butter. Use a knife to gently separate the skin from the breast if it’s being stubborn. Season inside and out with salt, pepper, and a little poultry seasoning. Stuff the cavity with chunks of lemon and onion to keep the bird(s) moist while cooking. Put them on a rack in a roasting pan and cook them at 350F about 20 minutes per pound, until the internal temperature hits 165F. Pull out the poultry and let it rest on a plate. Add new potatoes (or any other small variety) to the drippings in the pan, pop in a couple smashed cloves of garlic, and put it back into the oven for another 30 minutes or so until the potatoes are done. Serve it together on a big platter you can both take from, or one cornish hen each on a plate with the potatoes.
You really don’t need an appetizer, but hummus and pita chips is delicious and quick, and you can choose to either buy or make the hummus.
For dessert, make something that he really likes. My boyfriend is a peanut butter fiend, so I’d make peanut butter pie. Does he like chocolate? Make brownies. You want to be able to enjoy the evening, too so don’t kill yourself doing something overcomplicated! Go for the easy and simple things that you know will come out well. He doesn’t have to know that it wasn’t a lot of work!
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something seafood. dessert, who doesnt love cake.
edit: seafood pizza. use a thick crust or boboli crust, top with seafood of choice, shrimp, crab(imitation is fine), mushrooms. up to you.
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Mine was Red Lobster.
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Food/drink.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: for a special occasion dinner, work in your comfort zone. If you are comfortable trying out a fancy new recipe and being sure it will come out well the very first time, then go for it. If not, make the thing you’re used to.
Ok, here’s something for a main course:
Baked Sausages & Grapes
Take about 5 sweet (not hot) Italian sausages and cut them in half, and lay them in a baking pan. Add red seedless grapes, until you get about a 50-50 mixture (one bag of grapes should do it). Drizzle with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, sprinkle with thyme, and bake at 350 for 45 minutes, turning the sausages halfway through.
Goes well with mashed potatoes and wine.
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Appetizer.
Do a couple o medium sized Vol au Vants each with a creamy oyster filling.
Main.
A braised or roasted lamb shank with green minted peas, mashed potatoes and a minted pan gravy is a good meal.
Desserts.
Egg custard with a poached pear would be a great finish and could be eaten cold if you wish to make them in advance.
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Do you remember what your first meal together was? If you do you could try to re-create it
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you could try
lasagne
or some sea food
and trifle for dessert
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for an appetizer, try some smoked salmon on crispy crackers, then for a main dish, you can try spaghetti and meatballs because that is usually a romantic dish. For dessert, make a fruit tart with whatever fruit you guys like. These dishes are usually pretty easy to make and the ingredients for them are not expensive.
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Appetizer-
Shrimp Cocktail- With Cocktail sauce
Cocktail Sauce-
1/2 c. ketchup
2 tbsp. horseradish, heaping
1/4 tsp. lemon juice
Main Course- Shrimp Stir Fry ( you can cheet and buy the frozzen) With Spaghetti noodles
Dessert-
Triple chocolate bunt cake- Make a regular chocolate bunt cake. Put Chocolate frosting on it. And pat on semi sweet chocolate chip morsels.
I hope this helps my Grandma owns a Bed and Breakfast so I’ve watched her cook/bake quite a few times.
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I made vegetarian chili for my boyfriend on one of our first dates, and look who’s still here two years later…but I know you want to do something a little fancier. For your main course, roast a chicken. It’s delicious and so incredibly easy, plus it looks beautiful on the table. You’d just need a little one, or even two cornish hens if you want to be extra-fancy. Remove the giblets from your bird(s) then rinse them inside and out and pat dry with paper towels. rub under the skin of the breast and all over the outside of the bird(s) with room-temperature butter. Use a knife to gently separate the skin from the breast if it’s being stubborn. Season inside and out with salt, pepper, and a little poultry seasoning. Stuff the cavity with chunks of lemon and onion to keep the bird(s) moist while cooking. Put them on a rack in a roasting pan and cook them at 350F about 20 minutes per pound, until the internal temperature hits 165F. Pull out the poultry and let it rest on a plate. Add new potatoes (or any other small variety) to the drippings in the pan, pop in a couple smashed cloves of garlic, and put it back into the oven for another 30 minutes or so until the potatoes are done. Serve it together on a big platter you can both take from, or one cornish hen each on a plate with the potatoes.
You really don’t need an appetizer, but hummus and pita chips is delicious and quick, and you can choose to either buy or make the hummus.
For dessert, make something that he really likes. My boyfriend is a peanut butter fiend, so I’d make peanut butter pie. Does he like chocolate? Make brownies. You want to be able to enjoy the evening, too so don’t kill yourself doing something overcomplicated! Go for the easy and simple things that you know will come out well. He doesn’t have to know that it wasn’t a lot of work!
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