Inviting a woman over for a dinner date for the first time is a tough hurdle in any relationship. Obviously there are advantages to having her over to your place for a quiet night together, but if dinner doesn’t go well, it could spoil the entire evening. Without being overly specific, these simple tips should help you get through that event.
If you’re really worried or inexperienced at making dinner for someone, the best thing for you to do is subtly ask her what her favorite cuisine is during a date, and order that from a reputable establishment. It might lack the “home-cooked” element that girls like, but it’s not a deal breaker. However, if you do feel like you’re a good cook, here are some dos and don’ts:
Things That You Should Do
Wine. A good wine. It loosens you and her up, and sets a romantic mood. Don’t cheap out, but don’t go crazy with cost. Pick something that compliments the food. Drink some water too – getting too drunk is a definite turn-off.
For appetizers, consider raw oysters (be careful here because many women cannot stomach raw – ask first) – they aren’t aphrodisiacs, but have long been thought to be so because of the incredible nutritional value they have.
For a main course, serve a dish that you can keep warm in the oven just in case she’s late. If you make a quiche and she gets stuck in traffic, it’ll be ruined. But if it a nice roast or lasagna, you can keep it on low and serve it when she shows.
Before undertaking the first cooking date, make sure you have any food allergies down cold. The life threatening ones are worry some, but the annoying little sensitivities can prove to be an intimacy killer as well. Keep an over the counter anti-histamine around for emergencies. Benedryl is one of the better known. Ask your pharmacist for another appropriate alternative to have on hand as well if benedryl is a problem.
Plan your portions around the type of food you are serving. Make sure that neither of you get overly sated with food. Eating too much will make you lethargic and unlikely to be able to be intimate after the meal.
Candles are great to scatter around your digs, as well as on the table for dinner. Nora Jones, or Diana Krall are both among my favorite choices for intimacy music. Better to have a cd of romantic themes available up your sleeve than to have the latest rap, hip-hop or techno music.
Things Not To Do
If you are trying to impress her, then cook it several times and eat it yourself before the big date. You do not want any slip-ups on the big night. It can spoil the evening.
If you are cooking with curry, garlic or onions, keep it light and make sure you have some after dinner mints around. But it is just better to stay away from both of those nasty, nice breath unfriendly ingredients.
You do not have to impress her with fancy china, but on the other hand paper plates are a no-no. For a set of inexpensive matching dinnerware and silverware, Wal-Mart is your friend.
Do not over spice, and stay away from gassy foods like cucumbers. For a similar reason, serving soda pop or beer should be avoided. Burping is just not romantic.
Desert
You never want to load her down with so much food that if things do get sexy, she’s too full of food to really give it much effort. Serve something light like a sherbet, or a fruit cup.
Keep some whipped topping in the fridge in case the evening is an unqualified success.
Good luck and bon appetite!
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