Pretty straight forward. What do you cook and how do you cook it when you have to or want to impress someone?

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  5. Well people usually tell me that my pasta is pretty damn good. I’ll make some pepper shrimp spaghetti.

  6. Rattlesnake

    I’ve had it once and it’s good

    I live in arizona so it’s even more impressive if you catch the snake yourself

  8. If the guys are coming over to watch the game, I’m throwing ribs and chicken in the smoker. If it’s a date I’d probably go with chicken marsala w/garlic mashed potatoes and creme brûlée.

  10. Nagano pork tomahawk sous vide to medium pan sear finish cast iron pan in brown butter balsamic vinegar splash

    Butternut squash mash with a side of asparagus or broccoli

  12. Kraft Dinner.
    Namebrand, none of that no name or Annie’s crap.
    I aim to please. Only the best!

  13. Fettuccine Alfredo, breadsticks, ceaser salad.

    Alternatively, Garlic Shrimp Scampi over rice, garlic toast, garden salad.

    I would keep both a red and a white wine available. Depends on what they want.

    Desert: Brownie and ice cream during all seasons except fall, Pumpkin bread and whipped cream for fall.

  14. Carbonara. Get a bowl and add 4 eggyolks(for 2 servings), shit ton of parmesan, grinded black pepper, mix. Boil the pasta, strain but keep one glass of hot pasta water. Add whats in the bows to the strained pasta and mix, add water gradually till the wanted sauce consistency. Demolish.

  15. Homemade Spaghetti Bolognese. That’s homemade Spaghetti pasta with a slow cooked 6 hour bolognese made with a good red wine in it.

  17. Sushi, but using cooked fish instead of raw fish. I always thought sushi was hard to do but it’s super easy and honestly no one ever expects anyone to make sushi so it’s a good surprise. One day I plan to try the raw fish version, but until then use cooked fish, it’s great.

  18. Shepard’s pie. Baked nice and evenly and then give a quick broil to make sure the top layer of the mashed potatoes have a nice crisp.

  20. I’m off today but if I have to… breaded pork cutlets with a honey butter and Cajon country gravy, tempura fried green beans a la vodka, and funeral potatoes

  22. Bacon wrapped chicken cordon bleu with mashed potatoes, white gravy, garlic green beans, and fresh baked rolls

  28. Cajun stir fry with sausage, shrimp, and fresh veggies. And I’ll make enough to feed us for a few days.

  30. Chicken nokedli (chicken paprikash w/dumplings) and for dessert, palacsinta (thin pancakes) w/ sugar and cinnamon mixed into cottage cheese or just any kind of jam

  32. I’d say just a simple chicken and roasted veggies dinner, simple but you can get super creative with the veggies. The veggies are nice and colourful, the chicken if seasoned right is delicious, and it’s healthy. Maybe thrown in some asparagus on the side or something.

  33. A roast chicken. Butter stuffed under the skin of the breast, rolled and fork stabbed lemon stuffed inside, feet held together with slits in the skin flaps. Outside seasoned with various spices. Roast potatoes and veggies for the side. For dessert, multi grain/seed bread, buttered and toasted in a cast iron skillet for flavor, cherry and/or raspberry jam on top, scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream on top. Tastes similar to a very buttery pie with ice cream on top. Moscato or champagne with dinner.

    This is how I eat when feeling ambitious. When feeling lazy, or have to make quick meals for guests, I usually do toasted sandwiches on good bread, with homemade mayonnaise based sauce. Wine is often had. When I’m feeling super lazy, like this morning, I toasted a regular bun in the skillet with butter, then fried up fish sticks and made a fish sandwich with Swiss cheese, tartar sauce, and onion. Had a steak sandwich for breakfast.

    I grew up incredibly poor and poorly fed, so I’ve been really trying to find ways to eat better. I’ve just been experimenting in the kitchen for years now. Used to be a cook. I don’t host these days. I just cook really well for myself.

  34. Gnocchi with garlic lemon butter sauce and bruschetta or some poblano con queso chicken tacos and a churro bread pudding. Drinks I’d serve a tequilla and soda water with grapefruit juice or San Pellegrino soda with some prosecco

  37. Spaghetti

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    …I don’t know how to cook, but I can at least manage that much without messing it up. Not much else, though.

  41. Pop a pizza in the oven, leave it there until it becomes an unedible brick of charcoal, and impress them by how badly I could burn the pizza.

  43. A nice cut of steak, pan seared in a cast iron with butter and herbs etc… to a medium rare, roasted garlic parmesan brussel sprouts, and either a nice rice pilaf or some loaded mashed potatoes

  44. Steak au poivre (peppercorn crusted steak with brandy cream sauce), roasted vegetables, maybe asparagus, chocolate soufflé.

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