Oh mighty Org I need your help!

Actually, follow this video and you're onto a winner...

If you're looking for something easy on a limited cooking experience then why not (sort of) cheat/cut a corner.

Go to your local supermarket (Morrisons do a nice range) and buy the fresh pasta. You can get either the fresh spaghetti or the filled ravioli or tortellini; these are usually filled with something nice like rich beef & red wine.

Next to the fresh pasta are tubs of ready made but tasty sauces to go with the pasta. You could get bolognese to go with the spaghetti or a creamy carbonara or napolitana to go with one of the filled pastas.

The fresh pasta is added to boiling water and simmered for only 2 minutes.

The sauce is just literally poured into a saucepan and heated up, meaning that you could cook this meal in under 5 minutes.

To add a bit more to the meal you could pop a stick of garlic bread into the oven for about 10 minutes before you start the above.

It's uber easy for you to cook what is a really tasty meal to impress the lady & lets face it if she was going out for a meal with the odd glass of wine or 3 with her girlie chums, it's probably what they would be ordering anyway.

Originally Posted by Stenno

Fajitas all the way! As above, buy a Discovery or El Paso Pack etc with 8 wraps, seasoning and salsa. I usually start with an oily pan, chucking in diced onion until browning, and then long cuts of red pepper, carrot and chopped mushrooms.
Next I chuck in the Quorn chicken style pieces that I had frying in another pan. Chuck in the seasoning too. Remember to keep turning at all times.
Set the table with plates, sour cream, guacamole, grated cheese, warmed tortilla wraps and cutlery. Maybe some white wine and potato wedges too.

Sorry, but carrots??? And WINE? Mushrooms maybe, but fajitas are accompanied by beer! Corona, or maybe some tequila-flavoured stuff. Buy a lime and cut it into wedges to stick down the neck (of the bottle, not your missus) to add a touch of class that's bound to make her gusset more slippery than that of a teenage girl at a Justin Bieber concert.

The folding instructions are good, though. It drives me up the effing wall when I see these adverts for these kits and they have these smug t*ssers folding them into tubes (presumably so, from an advertising point of view, you can see what's inside). You know what'll happen? You'll bite into one end, and EVERYTHING will spill out the other!

Oh, and for GAWD's sake DON'T buy that 'extra mild' kit they've started advertising. Mrs Metal bought them and the result is the most flavourless mush it's ever been my displeasure to eat. Considering how expensive chicken boobs are these days, squandering them on that 'tasty' (a lie) 'flavourful' (also a lie) 'sauce' should be made a capital offence.

haha yeah carrots work great! Use the peeler to cut nice long flat pieces. As for wine, I'm thinking of his missus!

[keith_d]

It's probably a bit late now and fajitas are very straightforward, so go with them and if you're feeling adventurous try making your own guacamole. Fresh guacamole is best!

In future when you're in the supermarket try to pick up some recipe cards. These are generally very straightforward recipes which have been tried and tested by experts.

[Mr Speirs]

Mince Masetti

Buy yourself: Mince, Mushrooms, Onions, Cambells Condensed Tomato Soup, Cambells Condensed Mushroom Soup, Shell Pasta, Mixed Herbs, Salt and Pepper and Vegetable Oil.

Get 2 saucepans. Make saucepan 2 bigger than saucepan 1.
Stick the oven on to 180 to preheat.

On the hob:
In saucepan 1 put the shell pasta and a tablespoon of oil and cook the pasta.

In saucepan 2 put the oil, chopped onions, chopped mushrooms, mince, salt, pepper and mixed herbs. Cook until mince is not red anymore. Then add the 2 soups.

After a couple more minutes drain the pasta shells (they don't have to be proper cooked) and add to saucepan 2.

Put a lid on saucepan 2 and put it in the oven. Stir after 20mins and serve after 40 mins.

Easy peasy.

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

A Roast.

evry woman love a good roast

Originally Posted by Stenno

haha yeah carrots work great!

As for wine, I'm thinking of his missus!

Meh. Missuses (missii?) of the org, and unattached women too! You don't mind a beer now and then, do you? You aren't a bunch of stereotypical wine-guzzlers, I KNOW you're not, I saw you at the AR! Yes, you.

Sorry to go on about that, but it drives me up the wall (as you can tell, a lot of things do) the obsession with wine, constant wine, even if it doesn't suit the meal, WINE. Going out for a Ruby? Wine! Mexican? Wine! Pub lunch? More wine! I love wine, when it suits the food!

Pour wine down her throat after you've eaten your fajitas.

So was this how the cooking went then?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAp8j4c2LGs

Originally Posted by metalangel

Meh. Missuses (missii?) of the org, and unattached women too! You don't mind a beer now and then, do you? You aren't a bunch of stereotypical wine-guzzlers, I KNOW you're not, I saw you at the AR! Yes, you.

Sorry to go on about that, but it drives me up the wall (as you can tell, a lot of things do) the obsession with wine, constant wine, even if it doesn't suit the meal, WINE. Going out for a Ruby? Wine! Mexican? Wine! Pub lunch? More wine! I love wine, when it suits the food!

Pour wine down her throat after you've eaten your fajitas.

Meh quit your whining