I lied to someone that I cook. What's a dish that looks like it's difficult to make but yet very easy to cook?

Question

I'm not a good cook at all. The most I can make is eggs, rice, boil water and make macaroni and cheese. What is an easy dish to impress my significant other and make them believe me when I told them that I could cook well and that I do it often?

Answer 1

1. Cucumber Salad.....barely requires cooking...super easy.....super inexpensive.....very tasty.....i have always gotten rave reviews

2. Mashed Potato Style Cauliflower.....inexpensive.....different, not the usual mashed potato...super duper easy

3. Portobello Spinach Sautee.....once again super easy and inexpensive.....goes great with the cauliflower dish above

4. Puerto Rican Beans....I've rarely come across someone who doesn't like Puerto Rican food...once again inexpensive...and the recipe below are step by step

5. This one I know you will not believe me but don't be threatened....I don't know about you but when I think pate I think gourmet.....french food....stuffy people. That is until I gave it a try....this stuff is EXTREMELY expensive in the stores but so inexpensive to make and incredibly easy....the recipe below definitely has a WOW factor

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

A complete and easy menu for you from Italy. Very easy I promise!
Delicated rice salad – Insalata di riso delicata
8 hard-boiled eggs
1 360 g (12 oz) can bitter-sweet
peppers, drained
300 g (10 1/2 oz) boiled ham in a piece
8 tablespoons dried chives
10 tablespoons olive oil
6-8 tablespoons mayonnaise
550 g (1 1/4 lb) rice
salt


Prepare the ingredients. Cut the boiled ham into dice; cut the peppers into thin strips; shell the eggs and separate the yolk from the white for six of them (set aside two eggs for decorating); cut the whites into dice and mash the yolk with a fork; put all the ingredients in a large bowl with the olive oil and chives and stir gently. Meanwhile cook rice, as directed on the package, "al dente".
Drain it in the colander and run under cold water to stop the cooking.
Add the rice to the mixture in the bowl, season to taste with salt and blend in mayonnaise.
Cut into slices the two eggs and decorate the surface.
Let sit at least 2 hours before serving, or if chilled first, bring back to room temperature to serve.

Pollo Alla Diavola - Devil's Chicken

3 - 4 lb chicken
1/2 c Olive oil
2 tb Hot pepper sauce *
2 Lemons, juice only
1 tb Black pepper, freshly ground
1 ts Salt
Pepper to taste
* Tabasco or the like Using poultry shears, cut the bird open by cutting down the backbone.
Flatten a bit by pounding with your hand so that the chicken is "butterflied.
" Mix the remaining ingredients in a large bowl and marinate the bird for 2 hours.
Grill on a medium-hot charcoal barbecue, skin side down, for 25 minutes.
Turn and cook until the juices run clear, about another 20 minutes.
Keep basting with the remaining marinade.

Answer 3

If you can make rice, or boil water, a good dish to impress is risotto. By taking some simple short cuts, like buying pre-cut produce, or canned vegetable broth you can make it easily. Don't be overwhelmed by the directions on the recipe. Remember a couple of things when making risotto. The broth needs to be hot, so set it on the stove to simmer while cutting the other ingredients. Add a little bit of broth at a time, constantly stirring. When the risotto becomes dry, add some more until no more liquid can be absorbed.

This seems like a good recipe, and if you don't want it to be vegetarian, buy precooked shrimp and add them the last couple of minutes to warm through.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/232081

Answer 4

Chicken cordon bleu is great and its easy, get small pack of boneless chicken breasts, small box of bread crumbs, a cup of flour, one egg (scrambled in a bowl with spices; salt, pepper ), small pack of ham and a small pack of blue cheese. Cut up the ham until diced, break up the blue cheese and make a cut on the side, within the chicken breast with a small sharp knife. You want to make a small cut but cut deep and wide enough inside the chicken breast so you can stuff the blue cheese and ham inside without any of it coming out the hole. Once that's done, take your stuff chicken and dip into your flour, then dip into your egg mixture, and finally roll that around in your bread crumbs then put in a baking dish, (spray your dish with PAM cooking spray). Place in oven cook for 30-45 minutes at 375 degrees. Your side dishes can be some broccoli and any pasta that comes in the little pouches, (only takes 5 mintues to cook both) and there you have it! He'll love it and if he don't, get rid of his butt! LOL

Answer 5

Chicken and sausage

flatten out chicken breast
put 2 tbs cooked sausage in center
roll up and secure with toothpick

mix 1 can cream of chicken soup and 8 oz sour cream

pour over top
cover and bake 1 hr at 350

serve over rice

Answer 6

Pasta is really good. stir fry vegetables but in boiled pasta, and some pasta sause and voila. its done, quick easy, but looks asif someone spent ages on it.

also some indian curries are very easy to make. chicken bhuna, blend 2 onion garlic and ginger togteher, let it cook for 15 min, add all spices and add chicken, thats it.

Answer 7

Spaghetti, meatballs, and Garlic Bread. Simple, good, healthy, and hard to mess up.