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Foodie Fridays – Five Cooking Dates for Two

August 4, 2023 9:30 am

Tom and I love to cook. We love to cook for each other, and we love to cook together. When we had our kitchen renovated the designer laid out our kitchen to make the best use of space for us to both be in the kitchen. It was the best advice. Our kitchen is a great place for us to spend an evening together.

First, I’ll share a cooking date that didn’t work for us. You’ll need a bit of background to help—we enjoy watching cooking shows. One in particular is Master Chef where Gordon Ramsey and his team challenge home chefs with their culinary skills. The best one wins the title of Master Chef for the year.

There is one challenge he does called Mystery Box. Inside each chef’s mystery box are assorted ingredients each must use to make an inspiring meal. It’s fun to watch their creativity shine. 

Now for our unsuccessful date…

We made plans to go to the grocery store and buy our own mystery box ingredients to give to each other. The idea, which was a good one, was to each create a dish using the ingredients in our mystery box. The only problem was—we lacked the creativity to do anything with our items.

We bought such weird and unfamiliar items that we ended up donating them to a local food bank and ordered pizza delivery.

Failed date, but hilarious memory.

If you decide to do this, use more familiar ingredients to make it doable. This is still on the table for us to give it another try.

Below are five fun ways to enjoy time together in the kitchen…

Five Cooking Date Ideas for Two

• Charcuterie Board with Wine Tasting – Buy four bottles of wine. Two red and two white. Cut up favorite assorted cheese, dried meats, olives, nuts, crackers, and fruit. Set up a card table in an area not normal for meals, play some smooth jazz and enjoy. Put each bottle of wine in a paper bag so you don’t know which is which. Rate your favorite wine by the taste. You may find a new wine you didn’t know you liked best!
• Make your own pizza from Scratch – Try your hand a tossing your own pizza dough, spreading a favorite marinara sauce on top. Then each make a masterpiece for each other. Don’t forget to play classic Italian Cafe music to set the mood.
• Low Country Boil – This is one of our favorite meals for the summer. You can make it on your gas grill outside to keep the seafood smell out of the house. Instead of sea weed, we line the bottom of a large pot with spinach. Fill with smoked sausage, halved cobs of corn, shrimp, lobster tail or crab legs and new potatoes. Sprinkle all with Old Bay seasoning for the most authentic taste. Don’t forget to line your table with newspaper. When ready to eat, pour it all out on the table and enjoy.
• Filet Mignon with Roquefort Port Wine sauce – This is my all-time favorite meal that Tom cooks for me. I found it in my Williams-Sonoma French cookbook. It is so good you don’t need dessert – the sauce is so rich and mount-watering you’ll want to lick the plate. I may or may not have done this. 😉
• Ice Cream Sandwich competition – Each of you plan to make your own cookies and fill them with the ice cream flavor of your choice. Wrap them in plastic wrap and chill. 

All of our recipes and ideas can be found on our Pinterest Board – Date Night Food. We would love to hear about your experience if you try any of these “at home” cooking dates. 

Bon Appetit!

Posted by Debi Walter

Categories: Christian Marriage, Creative Dates, Date Night Ideas, Five Friday Favorites, Fun Dates

Tags: Five Cooking Dates, Master Chef, Mystery Box Challenge

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6 Responses to “Foodie Fridays – Five Cooking Dates for Two”

1. I love how you guys love to cook and I can only imagine getting that weird mystery box. That’s a fun memory. If you are reading this, Bob, don’t try this at home.

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   By Bonnie Anderson on August 4, 2023 at 9:36 am

   1. You should have seen the items we bought. Things we had never heard of. 😂

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      By Debi Walter on August 4, 2023 at 9:38 am

2. Very fun post to read. Thank you for sharing your failures in the kitchen as well as your successes. We may be building a house soon and we’ll take your advice for the kitchen into consideration. We are on a little getaway weekend to the beach and it was fun to sit in bed this morning and read your fun post.

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   By Randy and Vickie on August 4, 2023 at 11:47 am

   1. Thank you Vickie. Have a great time at the beach.

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      By Debi Walter on August 4, 2023 at 11:48 am

3. This is a very cool idea, Debi!

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   By mitchteemley on August 4, 2023 at 5:20 pm

   1. Thank you, Mitch.

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      By Debi Walter on August 4, 2023 at 5:22 pm

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