Date Night Dinners
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Ready to ignite that old flame? Or perhaps spark a new one? Take your partner by the hand and turn on your stove. A true romantic, award-winning author Sloane Taylor brings her creativity to the kitchen with easy-to-make meals sure to spark the intimacy and quality time you want with your special someone. Cooking together is only the start of the fun!
Create 45 complete dinners for two or flavor your evenings with a new dish. These 80 recipes use everyday foods already on most kitchen shelves. The recipes are easily increased for those fun times friends or family join your table.
Date Night Dinners, Meals to Make Together for a Romantic Evening, is an ideal gift for engagements, bridal showers, anniversaries, or anyone who wants to spice things up.
Sloane Taylor
Award-Winning author Sloane Taylor is a sensual woman who believes humor and sex are healthy aspects of our everyday lives and carries that philosophy into her books. She writes sexually explicit romances that takes you right into the bedroom. Being a true romantic, all her stories have a happy ever after. Her books are set in Europe where the men are all male and the North American women they encounter are both feminine and strong. They also bring more than lust to their men’s lives. Taylor was born and raised on the Southside of Chicago. Studly, her mate for life, and Taylor now live in a small home in Indiana and enjoy the change from city life. She is an avid cook and posts new recipes on her blog http://sloanetaylor.blogspot.com/ every Wednesday. The recipes are user friendly, meaning easy. Taylor currently has five erotic romance books released by Toque & Dagger Publishing with more releasing in the near future.
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Date Night Dinners - Sloane Taylor
Meat
Beef
1. Barbequed Meatloaf
2. Beef Braised in Stock & Wine
3. Braised Short Ribs
4. Cheeseburgers Sloane Style
5. Damned Good Pot Roast
6. Eye of Round Roast with Sauce
7. Marinated Skirt Steak
8. Mock Chicken Legs
9. One Pot Beef Stew
Pork
1. Country Ribs with Barbeque Sauce
2. Braised Pork Loin
3. Ham Baked in Bread
4. Herb Marinated Pork Chops
5. Honeyed Ham Steak
6. Marinated Pork Chops Braised in Wine
7. Marinated Pork Tenderloin
8. Pork Chops & Apples
9. Stuffed Pork Chops
Poultry
1. Chicken Breasts with Sage Buttered Pasta
2. Chicken Cutlets
3. Chicken & Dumplings
4. Chicken Stir-fry
5. Chicken Thighs with an Italian Flair
6. Easy Baked Chicken Breast
7. Mustard Chicken with Curly Pasta
8. Sautéed Chicken Breast
9. Sloane’s Fried Chicken
Fish & Seafood
1. Baked Salmon Steak
2. Baked Walleye
3. Fresh Fish Sandwich
4. Lime Infused Sole
5. Pan-fried Catfish Fillets
6. Sautéed Sea Scallops
7. Seared Tilapia
8. Tantalizing Cod
9. Tilapia with a Citrus Twist
International Dishes
1. Beef Stroganoff (Russia)
2. Chicken Casserole (Italy)
3. Chop Suey with a Kick (China)
4. Polish Sausage (Poland)
5. Pork Cutlet (Austria)
6. Sautéed Steak with Red Wine Sauce (France)
7. Shepherd’s Pie (Great Britain)
8. Stuffed Peppers (Hungary)
9. Whore’s Spaghetti (Italy)
Salads, Sauces, Sides, & Extras
Salads
1. Asian
2. Caesar Salad for Two
3. Leafy Greens with Creamy Garlic Salad Dressing
4. Polish Style Cucumbers
5. Snazzy Tomato
6. Tasty Tomato
7. Tomato & Cucumber
8. Tossed
9. Warm Endive & Pine Nuts
Sauces
1. Remoulade
2. Tartar
Sides
1. Homemade Applesauce
2. Sage Buttered Pasta
3. Spätzle
4. Stuffing
Extras
1. Creamy Garlic Salad Dressing
2. Rosemary Infused Oil
Veggies
1. Asparagus, Steamed
2. Asparagus, White
3. Broccoli Florets
4. Broccoli, Sautéed
5. Brussels Sprouts, Truly Yummy
6. Carrots, Candied
7. Green Beans, Fresh
8. Mushrooms, Sautéed
9. Potatoes, Baked
10. Potatoes, Boiled
11. Potatoes, Cheesy Scalloped
12. Potatoes, Homemade Fries
13. Potatoes, Mashed
14. Potatoes, Parsley
15. Potatoes, Roasted
16. Potatoes, Twice Baked
17. Sauerkraut
18. Snow Peas with Lettuce & Chives
19. Sweet Potatoes, Baked
Bonus Content
Conversion Chart
Cooking Tips
MEAT
This easy meal is a favorite of Studs, especially since leftovers make great sandwiches. I think you and yours will enjoy it, too. It’s also a bare hands-on prep. Dive in with your partner and have fun.
Serve with Mashed Potatoes, Snazzy Sliced Tomatoes, and Red Wine – Merlot.
BARBEQUED MEATLOAF
2 slices white bread torn into bits
½ cup (120ml) milk
1½ lbs. (750g) ground chuck
½ lb. (230g) ground pork*
3 tbsp. (60ml) onion, chopped fine
1 egg, lightly beaten
Scant ½ cup (120ml) barbeque sauce
*If you prefer not to use pork, increase ground chuck to 2 lbs. (900g).
Preheat the oven to 350° F (180°C).
Soak bread crumbs in milk 5 minutes. Drain excess liquid.
In a medium-sized bowl, combine all ingredients. Mix well with your hands, then shape into a loaf.
Place loaf in a nonstick pan. Bake 1 hour 15 minutes. Carefully drain off accumulated juices. Allow loaf to cool 5 minutes, then slice into the required number of serving pieces.
Leftovers freeze well. Cover in cling wrap and then refrigerate. It’s much easier to slice the meatloaf after it has chilled. The next day I slice the meat into sandwich size pieces, then cling wrap them in pairs for later.
When the cold weather hits this is a great recipe to warm you. Don’t worry about alcohol content. It cooks away and leaves behind a rich taste to enhance the meat.
Serve with Egg Noodles, Snazzy Tomato Salad, and Red Wine – Cabernet Sauvignon.
BEEF BRAISED IN STOCK & RED WINE
1 tsp. (5ml) garlic, pressed
1 tsp. (5ml) dried oregano
Freshly ground pepper to taste
8 – 10 half-inch (1.25cm) pieces of bacon
3 lbs. (1.5kg) English cut or rump roast
3 tbsp. (42g) butter
1 tbsp. (15ml) olive oil
½ cup (60g) onions, coarsely chopped
¼ cup (30g) carrots, coarsely chopped
¼ cup (30g) celery, coarsely chopped
½ cup (120ml) dry red wine
2 cups (500ml) beef stock
1½ cups (350ml) canned diced tomatoes, drained
1 bay leaf
Preheat oven to 350° F (180°C).
Mix garlic, oregano, pepper, and bacon together. Make deep incisions in beef and insert bacon.
In a heavy skillet combine 1 tbsp. butter with olive oil over medium-high heat. Brown beef evenly on all sides.
Melt remaining butter over moderate heat in a Dutch oven. Be careful not to let it burn while you place prepped onions, carrots, and celery on a cutting board and chop them together until fine. Stir this mixture into the Dutch oven. Stir frequently for 10 minutes or until veggies are soft and lightly colored. Place the browned beef on top.
Discard most of the fat from the skillet. Pour in wine and boil briskly over high heat, stirring and scraping in browned fragments that cling to the bottom and sides of the pan. When the wine’s reduced to ¼ cup (60ml), add it to the Dutch oven with beef stock, chopped tomatoes, and bay leaf. The liquid should come about a third of the way up the side of the beef. Add more stock if necessary. Bring to a boil over high heat, cover tightly, and braise in the middle of the oven for 2 hours or until meat is tender when pierced with the tip of a sharp knife.
Next, and this is really important, especially if you’re cooking on your own. Pour yourself a glass of red wine, grab a good book, and read for the duration of the cooking time. You deserve it.
Transfer meat to a cutting board, tent with foil, and let rest 10 minutes.
Strain sauce through a fine sieve into a serving bowl, press hard on the vegetables to extract all their juice. Skim off as much fat as possible.
EGG NOODLES
Follow package directions to cook. If the noodles are done before you’re ready, drain them in a colander and set the lid on top to keep them warm.
REMEMBER: all noodles/pasta can easily be re-warmed by pouring hot water over them before serving.
To serve, scoop noodles onto dinner plates. Lay slices of meat alongside, overlapping each other. Top with a hearty serving of sauce.
Don’t worry about the quantity if you and your favorite partner are the only ones at the dinner table. Slice off just the amount of roast you think you’ll eat, and freeze the rest in the sauce. It’s great for those days when you’re too busy to bother with more work.
Your stove and countertop will be a mess from boiling down the wine. No problem! Grab