First time cooking - Recipe ideas please?

Question

I'm cooking for my boyf tonight after the lovely meal he cooked last week. I have never cooked and have no idea! Anyone got a nice recipe that is easy to cook?

Answer 1

try this one..

Easy Chicken and Dumplings

Introduction

This is a great cold weather meal and one that everyone will love. Steaming the dumplings keeps them light and fluffy.

Ingredients

4 pounds chicken parts, legs, breast or thighs
1 teaspoon sea_salt
2 to 3 large carrots,sliced
2 Ribs of celery, sliced
1 Onion , diced in large dice
2 to 3 Chicken bouillon_cubes or 2 tsps chicken_stock granules
1 tsp poultry_seasoning
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup flour
Sea_salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

For Dumplings
2 cups Bisquick
3/4 to 1 cup milk

Note: Frozen peas and carrots can be used instead of the carrot and celery.

Directions

Step: 1 Place chicken in large pot with 1 teaspoon salt. Cover with just enough water to cover and bring to a boil. Simmer until chicken is tender. Remove chicken from pan and set aside.

Step: 2 Add chicken bouillion or stock base and poultry seasoning to the broth in the pot and stir until combined. Strain stock and measure .Add more water to make 4 cups. Add carrot, celery and onion and cook 15-20 minutes until carrots are tender.
Melt butter and stir in flour until mixture is smooth. Cook a few minutes until a very pale golden color. Add the roux to the chicken stock Simmer 5 minutes, stirring constantly until sauce is smooth and has thickened .Add salt and pepper to taste.

Step: 3 For dumplings, combine Bisquick and milk to make a soft dough. Place about 1/2 inch water in a large saucepan or pot, with a wire rack that comes 2 to 3 inches above the water line. Butter a cake pan or pie plate that will fit in the pot. Drop the dumplings into the pan, leaving a little room for expansion. Place the pan of dumplings on the rack and cover the pot .Bring the water to a simmer and steam about 10 minutes until the dumplings are light and fluffy..
Meanwhile, remove skin from cooked chickens and bone, if desired. Cut in large pieces. Place chicken pieces in casserole. Arrange dumplings over chicken. Cover with sauce.

Answer 2

Cook "Piadinas" it is an Italian dish, and it is simply amazing!!! Once I went to an Italian restaurant and this was the first dish, we gave it a try and we loved it!! I couldn't find the recipe, so as I knew about the ingredients I tried to cook it at home on New Year's Eve!! It was lovely!! as good as at the Restaurant! I've cooked it a few more times after on weekends away with friends and they loved it!!! they didn't expect they tasted that good!! really yummy!! and it is a really cheap dish, you just need to heat in the oven some Mexican tortillas, at the same time you have to cook a white sauce made with flour, oil and milk, add a bit of fried onion, some canned mushrooms and cut 4 slices of bacon. Then you put the result in the tortillas, you add cheese powder, close the tortillas to make a wrap and put them for about 2 mins in the oven. Then they are ready to eat!! you dip them in mustard and god...you go directly to heaven!! My mouth is watering right now!! I hope you try my dish and your boyfriend loves it!! If you need more help with desserts or something just ask!! I know how to cook brownies! people love them!! I've even received marriage proposals when guys have tasted them!! lol!
P.S: Sorry I forgot to tell you that you had to put the Piadinas in the oven wrapped in Kitchen foil!!

Answer 3

Make Over 200 Juicy, Mouth-Watering Paleo Recipes You've NEVER Seen or Tasted Before?

Answer 4

My suggestion: spaghetti - try this recipe:

Spaghetti with Shrimps
9 ounce Spaghetti
7 ounce medium shrimps peeled and deveined
11 ounce cherry tomatoes, make a cut but not so deep enough to separate it into halves
5 large cloves garlic, sliced
4 tablespoons olive oil
5 ounce arugula
1 ounce fresh basil leaves
salt and freshly ground pepper to taste

- Cook pasta in a large pot of boiling lightly salted water until al dente.
- Meanwhile, heat olive oil in a large non-stick frying pan, stir in garlic for 2 minutes, add shrimps, salt and cook them for 3 to 5 minutes or until they turn red. Remove with a slotted spoon and and set aside. Leave the garlic in the frying pan.
- Add in the same frying pan the cherry tomatoes and cook them, stirring frequently until they get soft and a little bit sauce is formed (but the tomatoes should not melt completely). Add the shrimp, stirring for 1 minute.
- Reduce heat, add arugula and basil, stir quickly. Remove from heat.
- Drain pasta and mix with the sauce. Season with salt and pepper. Serve immediately

Source: http://www.weloveseafood.com/shrimprecipes.html

Answer 5

cook his favorite dish or something like it with your own twist.
good luck..

Answer 6

chicken paprika email me if you want the recipe . good luck,

Answer 7

from busycooks.about.com

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Answer 8

yeah of course!
you can start with 2 eggs hah!!
shut them to your head....
=)