Research shows that women are more likely to choose men who can cook deliciously. The statistical data indicate a positive effect on the relationship of sharing or cooking. Plus, it's always nice to impress a friend by making a romantic dinner with your own hands. After all, according to our grandmothers, “through the stomach to the heart”, and according to Italians, “sex begins in the kitchen”!
What can we do if our culinary skills are not as good as Jamie Oliver or Ivlev Konstantin and difficulties arise even when cooking eggs? There is only one answer – for the sake of your beloved woman you will have to learn, but how and what we will tell in the article. Let's not waste time, let's get started!
Know her preferences
First of all, if you want to do something that will charm your partner, you need to know what she likes. For example, it's silly to serve a broccoli dish to a girl who won't touch it. If you are not sure about our guests' tastes, then we can prepare something neutral.
It is important not only to cook deliciously, but also to please your partner
If you don't feel confident in the kitchen, it is a good idea to prepare a dish that comes in a wide variety of varieties, such as pasta of some kind. The internet is full of 'exceptional spaghetti' recipes and tutorials showing each step of the cooking step by step. This makes it possible to experiment with ingredients and arrange them according to the partner's preferences. However, you should stick to common sense – more ingredients does not mean better. Typical must-haves in most pasta dishes are olive oil, some onions and garlic, and a glass of wine.
Alcohol in food reduces evaporation, so the smell, and therefore the taste, becomes more pronounced. In addition, the wine adds aroma and acidity, which is in perfect harmony with tomato additives.
Romantic Italian dinner
Technically speaking, the most important challenge in any pasta preparation is planning what and when to add to the pan. Some ingredients must not be added too early (eg arugula or cheese) or too late (eg meat). The degree of heat treatment of the food we prepare can be easily checked with a kitchen thermometer. Such a precious appliance is about inexpensive, and it is possible to buy it in most hardware stores. This device allows you to check whether the meat we cook has reached the condition. Tables listing suitable temperatures for consuming different types of meat can be easily found on the Internet.
How about the salad?
A salad is a good idea for a romantic dinner. It is much lighter than, for example, spaghetti and easier to cook. Recipe – Gorgonzola Salad. You will need rucolla, gorgonzola, and walnuts. The latter pair wonderfully with cream cheese, pears and pomegranate to complement the flavors. Cut cheese and fruit into small cubes, add nuts and arugula, stir and add a little oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper to season the dish. Serve with croutons.
The use of fresh salads in cooking dinner is encouraged by women
A romantic dinner should be aesthetic
Aesthetics and hygiene are another important element in cooking. Even the most delicious dish, which is unsightly served on a dish, will cause an unpleasant effect and discourage a charming partner. The same applies to food prepared in unsanitary conditions. It is best to prepare the dish several times in advance in order to learn how to make it perfectly and with confidence, to decide on the combination of spices and toppings.
This dessert will surprise your woman
Everything that was said above is very important, but it does not mean anything if you do not go to the kitchen and start trying. We have presented some sample of a man in the kitchen that looks masculine and is liked by women. As a result, it became clear that the man who cooks really competently looks cool, even if he is not able to cook everything on the account. He knows all the nuances of cooking, knows its history, life hacks and is able to serve it beautifully in the end.
Ingredient List
A little history of the dish
Crumble is an invention of the British Food Department during the Second World War, to which it owes its simplicity and naturalness. Then Britain, which was in a military, economic and trade blockade, experienced a terrible shortage of many products. Including baked goods, sugar, flour and everything else. A special ministry was created for the British who do not want to part with pudding and desserts. In particular, it suggested freezing carrots on a stick and eating them as ice cream. In order to save money, a simplified recipe for the traditional apple pie was created. After the end of the Second World War, or as they say the war for Britain, this recipe has not disappeared anywhere and for nostalgic and at the same time technological reasons, it is prepared everywhere, including Michelin star restaurants.
Cooking process
- We take some wheat flour and sift it through a sieve. This process is called the aeration process – the saturation of the product with oxygen, the flour is sifted through a sieve for this, oxygen helps to make gluten. In other words, it helps the dough to become a dough and also to cleanse the flour from impurities.
- Add finely ground sugar to the flour. Because we are going to make sugar shortcrust pastry.
- Add flavors to the flour – cinnamon, ground vanilla and a pinch of salt to balance the taste. We mix.
Preparation of dough for our dessert
Do not overdo it with cinnamon, it tastes bitter in large quantities even with sugar.
- Cut apples into wedges
Remember to remove the core of the apples
- Pour brown sugar, apples and a little butter into a large frying pan.
Brown sugar in a frying pan
Butter is a flavor enhancer, it simultaneously promotes the formation of caramel flavor and inhibits sugar caramelization, providing the sauce with the desired structure.
- Add some raisins. It absorbs the apple flavor, becomes softer, and adds a grape aroma.
You can add some Calvados or wine.
- Pour the contents of the pan into a mold.
Let's start making the dough
- Rub cold butter into flour and stir by hand until a mixture looks like wet coastal sand.
You can pour the resulting sand onto apples
There should be enough sand so that it can not only absorb liquids in the form, but also form a kind of crust.
- We put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees until a delicious crust forms.
The dish does not have a definite shape when served. For example, you could bake it in separate tins or pastry rings so that you can serve it beautifully later. But this is not traditional, and we will delight our woman with the traditional version of the recipe. Thus, we prefer the power of taste to the power of aesthetics.
- Put the baked apples with crumbs in a bowl
We are preparing to serve our dessert to our beloved woman
During the war, of course, this was not the case, but nowadays they traditionally serve crumble with ice cream to somehow add flavor and shine to it.
Take a spoon and make ice cream dumplings
An important life hack! It is easier to make beautiful, neat dumplings with heated spoons, ice cream slides off more easily.
If you want the ice cream to be cold and not melt when served, then it is better to pre-chill the crumble. But in the original version, ice cream as a sauce will complement the taste of the dessert, and not contrast and contradict it.
Finally
Men have 60% more taste buds than women and are more likely to experiment in the kitchen. Whereas women are more strict about the rules. Therefore, men, more often than women, become chefs in restaurants around the world. Of course, you don't have to become a chef, but sometimes it's worth cooking something for your loved one. Who knows, maybe latent talent will appear and improve there. Cooking should be fun, so don't be upset after your first setbacks. Discover new tastes and cuisines, reject the idea that a meatless lunch is not dinner, but an appetizer or dessert. Use good and seasonal ingredients in your kitchen, and avoid processed foods and convenience foods. Read the labels! If cooking is a pleasure, it's worth sharing, cooking for or with your partner.
For those who, in practice, dare to delve into the secrets of cooking, it is worth visiting the new culinary section of the site. We will show that not every meal should be meat. And watching a match with the guys isn't just beer and chips and nuts. We will surprise you with recipes for a romantic dinner and breakfast for two or with the secrets of testosterone-charged men’s cuisine. Let's find the answer, what to eat before and after training. All in all, we'll help you become the next chef!
