A Great Way To An Inexpensive Romantic Evening Guys Can Do Themselves
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.
Every woman likes to be pampered, and every guy knows that. The problem is, we would rather just buy something like a spa treatment or the nice package of perfumes and oils bundled for our convenience at the store, it is less difficult than dealing with the details ourselves. Fortunately, the commercial world is aware of this little deficiency in the man beast and is very accommodating. Still, surprising her with some true tender loving care and personal pampering can mean a lot to her, and she is worth it.
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.
Back home, prepare the fireplace for a good long fire, replete with starter kindling, matches and everything else you need to keep the fire steady. If the place could use a little tidying up, this is a good time to take care of that, you do not want some errant article of clothing or paraphernalia to ruin the mood. There is some more preparation to get to, but fear naught, you can handle this.
This is the part of the evening you have been avoiding, the actual preparation of an edible, even succulent meal for two, made entirely by yourself (with a little help from the supermarket). While it may be tempting to purchase a meal prepared by the supermarket and call it done, you want this to be a hand prepared evening, especially for her. You probably have almost everything you need, but one device you may not have is an electric rice cooker. They are reasonable priced and once you have used it once it will become a handy part of your cooking routine, as easy to use as a microwave.
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.
Start the fire and select some decent tableware. Prepare a table in front of the fireplace and cook the vegetables as instructed on the bag. Slice the bread and place on a plate on the table. You are about 30 minutes away from a very fine romantic meal. Check the rice starting at about 25 minutes of baking, you want the seafood cooked and the cheese melted, bubbling and slightly browned but not black. When its ready, put the rice dish and the vegetables on the table, pour the wine and water, and you are ready for her. It is hard to believe this all started with the trusty homelite chainsaw.
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