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From: b2@magic.UUCP (Bryan Bingham)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: romantic meals
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Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 23:25:58 EST
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About good meals to serve SOs:

>     I seem to recall advising someone on this net to cook his
> best chili for someone, and now they're living together. . .


     Along the same lines, my husband served me chili the first time I
ate dinner at his house back in our courting days.  We got married about
seven months later.  Clearly the moral is: be careful who you serve your
chili to (;-).

     Now our favorite romantic dinner (what he gets for Valentine's Day 
dinner) is a version of

		     
		     Shrimp Thermidor


1 lb. cooked, shelled, deveined shrimp

1/4 to 1/2 c. butter
1/2 lb. sliced fresh mushrooms
1/4 c. flour
1/2 t. salt
1/2 t. dry mustard
pinch of cayenne
2 c. milk

grated Parmesan
paprika

     Cook, shell, and devein the shrimp.  If they're large ones, cut them in
half.  Preheat the oven to 400F.
     Melt the butter in a skillet, add the mushrooms, and saute for about 5
minutes.  Stir in the flour, salt, mustard, and cayenne.  Cook about 3 minutes
more.  Stir (or whisk) in the milk.  Cook, stirring, until sauce is thickened
and smooth.  Add the shrimp.
     Pour the mixture into a greased, shallow casserole dish.  Sprinkle
generously with Parmesan and paprika.  Bake at 400F about 10 minutes, until the
cheese begins to brown.

     This is a very rich dish, especially if you use the larger amount of 
butter.  I usually serve it with plain rice and a green vegetable, and some
relatively innocuous dessert like ice cream (NOT Amaretto Cheesecake, for
example).  A little sherry in the sauce is good, too.  Gild that lily.

b2  ( actually his wife, who is also b2 )
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