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Welcome to the Valentine’s Week of Giveaways! All week long we’ll be giving away great products to lucky Simple Marriage readers.
To get us started, how about some great romantic cooking?
Eric Lee is a chef and author of Sweeping Her off Her Feet with Food.
Seductive cooking … hot romance! What every marriage can benefit from.
Here’s a bit more from Eric:
I hope to share my passion for fusing food with romance, and to help you master the art of creating food that is in itself art. Fare that not only nourishes us physically, but makes us appreciate the heart that created it. The heart connected to love itself—the spirit of creation that helps our souls soar and our hearts sing the praises of those who we hold dearest, our lovers!
This book has been a labor of love for me for years now. It is a perfect storm blending my fascination with creating great dining experiences and the ecstasy that can only be found in love. When you start experimenting with blending these two concepts yourself, infusing them with your own unique taste and abilities, and creating them with the love, passion and enthusiasm (and let’s be honest, sometimes it’s just sheer lust) that we feel for someone close to us, the effects of your efforts become multiplied a thousand-fold.
Eric is offering one Simple Marriage the chance to win a copy of his book, Sweeping Her off Her Feet with Food.
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I never go wrong with crock pot and then chocolate mousse for dessert (at least the first part of dessert) during the winter or a BBQ chicken kabob and fruit smoothie during the summer.
My wife loves tortellini paired a good home-made tomato sauce.
Whether I fix the main course or not, I cannot go wrong with a home-made cheesecake!
Steak, med rare, baked potato, sour cream and aspargus. Then desert is something chocolate, maybe french silk pie or brownies and ice cream.
Risotto. With brownies for dessert.
I love to prepare Thai shrimp w/ peanut sauce for my hubby and when we first started going out, I once prepared the dish “to go” and took it out to his place in the woods. I use big prawns, Taste of Thai peanut sauce (they taste as good and are easier to prepare quickly), basmati rice, and stir fry red peppers, mushrooms, carrots, green onions, bok choi, and garlic with the shrimp. Or whatever veggies are on hand. Delish! Green tea or coconut ice cream after. Also, another good book/movie on sensuality and food is Like Water for Chocolate.
My husband loves strip steak and baked potato – that is what I fix him for a special date
The first valentines day I spent with my wife (way back when we were dating) I cooked Sunshine Chicken Rollups. Chicken Breast covered in a pineapple brown sugar sauce rolled up in bacon served on rice. Still by far my favorite thing to cook for her
My wife melts with a grilled bourbon-marinated salmon, rice, and veggies. It’s simple, but it really makes her day because she knows I made it for her. When in a pinch without salmon on hand, though, a spur-of-the-moment homemade macaroni and cheese has the same effect.
I have a stew recipe that I make for date night with my hubby. It has little strips of steak, brown rice and a bottle of Guniess beer, but it’s still low-fat and good for us. It’s a cozy meal when it’s cold outside-perfect for snuggling!
Steak has to be part of theain course and then chocolate has to be the main ingredient of the dessert. Other than that, my husband doesn’t really care!
I love the risotto idea though. There is something about putting that much effort into a meal that feels romantic.
Making pasta has always been a favorite to make for a date night in almost any form. Something about pasta just says romance to me. I really enjoy making the whole night an event of some sort by preparing the room, setting the table, putting on music, and dressing up. The desert is also a great way to end a romantic dinner. You can’t beat brownies, hot fudge, and ice cream.
What about you Corey? Are you going to share with us what you like to cook?
Looks like a great book Corey! Can’t wait to see what else you have for us this week!
Fortunately I am married to a meat and potatoes type of girl- so I love, as does she, cooking steaks or chicken on the grill. If I’m cooking something in the kitchen, I stick to Fajitas or pasta.
My husband’s favourite is a nice steak with potatoes. For dessert a delicious raspberry cake topped with lots of fresh raspberries and whipped cream.
I love anything mexican!! Taco salad is one of my favorite date night meals.
We enjoy cooking together. For a nice dinner for two, we like to grill out steaks and a vegtable, a salad and a nice bottle of wine.
My favorite dish to prepare for a date has always been snow crab or king crab legs (unless they were vegetarian!) A bit messy, a bit rich with lemon butter to dip and can lead to light-heartedness if cracking gets messy. Add green beans, maybe a baked potato, some wine and a chocolate dessert and it is the plan for a YUMMY evening!
I love to make pork tenderloin, roasted red potatoes, and salad. My husband loves red velvet cake, so that’s for dessert.
My hubby of 28 years loves to have a good steak cooked medium rare leaning toward rare. A simple baked potato and salad with real blue cheese and he is a very happy camper. Throw in a home-made apple pie and my man is just ecstatic. Life is good!
I admit I need some inspiration…but I like to prepare brownies–perhaps cut out with a large heart-shaped cookie cutter…and perhaps slightly decorated…
I have always been fond of preparing a delicious Fillet Mignon with red wine (when my wife is not pregnant
). However, I definitely need to expand my “game” a bit and come up with some better and more original dishes. This books looks great!
RT as well!
Reservations, with all the trimmings
Steak. He’ll go for any kind of steak, since we don’t have it very often. And chocolate for dessert. Though, that’s probably more for me.
A perfect date night dinner for my husband is anything that features red meat, usually steak. I like thin-steaks cooked on the dry side with little potatoes boiled with till and covered with a cream of mushroom sauce. For veggies he likes boiled baby carrots and I like corn so we mix them and he’s not a dessert kind of person so chocolates are enough.
Cheesecake!
My husband and I like Mexican food, so I like to prepare Chicken Enchiladas with chips and homemade salsa. My husband loves raspberries, so I try to make him some kind of dessert with raspberries. Thank you for the giveaway.
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Our favorite is a meal of Ahi Tuna Steaks rubbed in Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Cracked Pepper and Sea Salt, topped with a Home-made Lemon Butter sauce and served with steamed Jasmine rice and baby carrots–paired of course with the wine choice of the night!! Add a candle and turn the lights off!!
Our favourite is either spagetthi with home-made pesto, or pasta with spinach, garlic and sheep’s cottage cheese on it. Both plates are simple (simple enough to be cooked with divided attention, eg. with very few clothes on — he loves watching me then, and I can’t keep my mind fully on cooking, either
). Plus we like italiano a lot, the pasta with spinach is something we both love, it was one of the first things I cooked for him, and it’s also too special to be found in many restaurants. So it’s romance and good taste mixed for us.
Anything red meat! He loves steak, roast, anything like that.
A relaxing date night for my sweetie includes taking her out so she can get away from the daily grind of being a housewife. When we stay home and cook together, a nice BBQ steak with Shrimp scampi, garlic lemon butter and topped with Capers, mashed garlic red potatoes and steamed fresh vegies of the day.
With an enjoyable bottle of her favorite wine, soft jazz and candlelight.
My husband likes the simplicity of homemade pasta sauce and spaghetti. My personal fav date night dish is garlic shrimp over angel hair… thanks for the opportunity to win!
Fondue- It is so slow to eat so it makes the meal last longer. Plus, there is something romantic about it. I don’t know.
Homemade bread and pasta
I love to make spaghetti and meatballs. Yummy
My husband and I love spaghetti with browned butter and shredded myzithra cheese. It’s super easy to make and the cheese makes it unique. Accompany it with some garlic bread and fresh salad, and we’re happy campers!
Breakfast food, definitely. She loves my gourmet french toast, applewood smoked bacon and a hot cappucinno.
Our favorite is Dorito Chicken casserole. Yummy!
Cheese cracker chicken! Matt’s mom used to cook this one for him, so its a favorite- I had to add my own special touches to it though
To make it, use cheez-its to bread chicken with some extra grated cheddar cheese on top. Serve with veggies, a side of ketchup, and definitely some homemade brownies to finish it off. Not very elegant, but brings back those childhood memories!
The book looks great- good find corey! Hopefully it will spice up our repertoire
Steak with blue cheese and whiskey sauce. yummy.
I think classics, like good ol’ spaghetti and meatballs, are solid date dishes. As a woman, it says, “Hey, I can cook like your mom!” If you’re a guy, it says, “Hey, I can cook comfort food!” It’s a win-win for both genders.
We love Carbonara! It’s our go-to food. We cook it up and eat it straight out of the pan while snuggling together.
My husband and I like to cook dinner together for our dates. Lately, pizza has been a date night favorite because we can both work on it together. We make pizza with homemade crust and sauce and topped with whatever we have handy, often mushrooms onions and sweet peppers.
a big bowl of ice cream to share!
our favorite ‘date nite’ dinner is veal parmesan, with a nice salad, homemade garlic bread and iced brownies with vanilla ice cream for desert!
Anything Asian… the spicier, the better (at least as far as my hubs is concerned!). Since I have milder tastes, I opt for seafood and fried rice or chicken satay with peanut sauce.
Something with dark chocolate for dessert… dark chocolate dipped strawberries or a raspberry and dark chocolate mousse. Yum!
Honestly, my husband loves it when I make garlic burgers (he grills them) and homemade shoestring fries. We top it off with some banana ice cream. It’s fun to grill together on our extended driveway off of the kitchen. It’s not fussy and we make it as a team.
I try to keep it simple- Angel Hair pasta and some chicken
Steak! We don’t eat it very often, so I am always trying to make a great steak on a special occation.
we love salmon, veggies and rice. that seems to be our go-to meal for an in house date
Fondue! Especially chocolate with fruit.
My husband loves Italian food, spaghetti, lasagna…but we also enjoy steak or chicken on the grill…