Would you rather take your girlfriend/wife (boyfriend/husband) to a nice restaurant, or cook something for them at home and set your own mood?

Can I do both ?

I can see the benefit of setting ones own table at home to impress but I think the pressure that it would not turn out right (the cooking I mean) might be overwhelming for some.

I think for me it would be a restaurant. Then the burden of the quality of the food is off loaded which then gives you more time to talk...

Cooking a meal I think would be best on the second or third date !



Ah..I just realised that I have answered above as if the question is for a first date !!........sorry !

The answer is still the same though....oh yes...the chance to take wifey out and get away from the house is very alluring.

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Yeah...but Neil, you have advantage of our online cookbook! How could you go wrong??

What !...you mean barbecued porcupine ? ;)

..hey !!..at least it comes with it's own tooth picks !!

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Snowman1 Men are the same as women, just inside out !Snowman1

and these are mine, mine mine mine ...oh...and wifeys too !

Hey, I've eaten porcupine (in a stew), and it is rather good! It is just a bit difficult to clean and skin.

*hurl...tries very hard to keep supper down*

Big respect to the Rex man !!...dare I ask what it tastes like ?....I imagine it to be quite gamey !!..and NOT like chicken ! ......I suppose it could also double up as a scrubbing brush once you've eaten the contents...*hurl....hnnnnghh...*

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Snowman1 Men are the same as women, just inside out !Snowman1

and these are mine, mine mine mine ...oh...and wifeys too !

I didn't kill it nor did I clean it, though that doesn't mean that I wouldn't now. It actually tasted somewhat between bear and pork...a little more like pork. It is a sweet and fat meat, full of flavor. It was really perfect for stew, though just guessing, I'd think that it would be too greasy to be that good just fried. Just as a tip for anyone who wants to try it, porcupines don't have spines on the belly, so to skin it, the skin needs to be curled back staring at the belly. It should be skinned before being cleaned, then rinsed in clean water, very well to get rid of the excess fat.

Additional tip: Porcupines are a lot more difficult to skin and clean if they are still alive. Warning, warning, will robinson!

Its lower in cost to eat out than buy groceries and cook, for example I /wife can eat at RYANS for $5.60 each cafteria help yourself style or the Golden Corral, about same, average $55 to $58 a week, beats sweating over the stove and time wasted.

Eat breakfast at home, dinner out and a snack at night, money in the billfold.

Weekends prices go up so do whatever pleases one.

REVPO

That is one thing that I have to disagree with . Except for eating at McD's, I have shown over and over to other people as well as to family that it is far cheaper to fix a really tasty and well made meal at home. The cheapest restaurants in town will run anywere from $7 to $10 per person, per meal (again, not counting fast food, which is flavored cardboard, IMO). So taking the lower limit, that is $49 a week, per person. I spend about $60 per week for both of us, and we are slowly gaining weight, and are never going to bed hungry. This even includes desserts. Counting cleanup, electricity, trouble, it still is far cheaper to fix food at home than to go to a restaurant. (I spent a lot of time, 7 years, working in a restaurant that had very cheap prices.) An example....recently I wanted to take my wife out for Top Sirloin dinner. I called around and the cheapest was $14 each. I went to the store, bought 3 pounds of sirloin for about $10.50, prepared it myself, and the only extra cost was $1 for the lettuce for a salad, .38 for green beans, probably .05 for the potatoes we already had, and maybe $1 for dessert (pudding). So for less than one steak dinner, we had food for two, and still saved money.

But the question remains. I'm not talking about cost here, just what everyone would prefer to do.