First meal date ideas please Here's Several

Appetizers: 1) 1 block of cream cheese with a bottle of Pick-A-Peppa sauce poured over it with crackers. You will be surprised at how good that is. 2) 1 Bag of tortilla chips with a quality salsa and slices of cheddar cheese 3) 1 port wine cheese log with crackers. I like whole wheat crackers for that one. If you don't like port wine cheese logs, just set out some crackers with a nice Havarti or a nice Cheddar, or both. 4) 1 bag tortilla chips - 2 Avocados smashed up with salsa and lime juice to taste

Salad: 1) Chopped Lettuce, grated Carrots, fresh Spinach and-or Arugula, sprouts, chopped Apples, chopped walnuts and red wine or balsamic vinaigrette 2) Cottage cheese with cling peaches on top with black pepper 3) Chunks of mixed types of fruit cut up into a bowl with chopped walnuts and a lime squeezed over it

Main course:

Red Meat - 1) Get two well marbled Rib Eye steaks 1.5 inches thick, dump worsteshire sauce on them and then dust them with course black pepper, Broil for 6 minutes each side. While they are broiling, steam some asparagus, and melt some butter in a pan with a half a lemon squeezed in it. Pour the lemon butter on the asparagus when served. Baked potatoes with butter and sour cream go well with this. 2) Take a glbutt baking dish and pour a beer in it. dump in a teaspoon of worsteshire and 1-4 teaspoon Tabasco sauce. Add three or four GOOD Quality sausages and bake for 20 minutes at 350 (cheap sausage would be a mistake). Serve with good mustard and kraut. (find out if she likes kraut first) If she doesn't like kraut, scratch it and the mustard and serve with bar-b-que sauce. That goes well with store bought potato salad and steamed green beans with butter and black pepper. 3) Take some butterflied pork loin chops and put cooked stove top cornbread stuffing in the middle of them and tie them up with bakers string. Bake in a covered dish at 325 for 20 minutes. Paint them with bar-b-cue sauce and bake them for another ten minutes uncovered. While they are cooking, quarter some small new potatoes and boil them until soft. drain them and dust them with Cajun Seasoning or Seasoned Salt. Serve with Cheddar and French bread.

Chicken- 1) Take some chicken breasts and marinade them in your refrigerator over night in Italian dressing. Bake them until white all the way through (20 or 30 minutes at 350) and serve them over buttered rice with peas mixed into it. While they are cooking, steam some carrots until they are soft and drain them. Add some butter, some maple syrup and some black pepper to the carrots and stir them up. Fry some Zucchini or Squash slices in Italian dressing until done. 2) Take a whole chicken and put it in a glbutt baking dish with a lid. Cover it with Tamari sauce until it is about 1-2 inch deep in the dish. Cover the chicken with lots of Rosemary and bake for 50 minutes at 350. Serve with the Cornbread you can buy in the tubes that pop open from your grocery store and fresh peas with butter and pepper.

Fish- 1) Mix 1-4 cup melted butter, 3 tablespoons Dijon mustard, and 1 and 1-2 tablespoons honey and spread it all over a nice 1-2 pound Salmon filet. Next take a 1-4 cup finely chopped pecans, 1-4 cup dry bread crumbs, and four teaspoons finely chopped fresh parsley mixed up and sprinkle liberally over the salmon. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 or 15 minutes until flaky. This one is an amazingly tasty recipe! Serve with vegetable of choice and fresh bread. 2) If you have access to an outdoor cooker-burner, this is a simple and very tasty meal neither of you will soon forget. You will need to get a couple of Dungeness crabs (any crab works, but Dungeness is the best if you can get them, King Crab or Snow Crab is good too) and 1-2 pound of fresh shrimp. Put a couple of gallons of water in a big pot and throw in a bunch of new potatoes, 6 half ears of corn, 1-2 pound of sliced Andouille sausage (if you can get it, if not any GOOD quality sausage will work) and a bag of good, spicy crab boil. Boil it until the potatoes are soft and then toss in the crabs. Boil for one minute and then toss in the shrimp. Boil for another three minutes and turn off the fire. You will have boiled the crabs for a total of 4 minutes, that is important. Drain it all and then dump it in the middle of the table on butcher paper. Put out some chickentail sauce and melted butter and enjoy! I use a rolling pin to break up the crabs.

Dessert- 1) Get some of those Nestle toll house cookies they sell in the refrigerated section of your grocery store. You can make them any time and they are easy, fast, and tasty! 2) Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream! The premier, frozen dairy confection (although I have to admit, some of this Gelato stuff that has been showing up lately is mighty god!)