Ask your girlfriend if they have any food allergies or dishes they really don't like. Also ask what a typical meal at her home consists of. With those guidelines, go ahead and prepare what you make best. Basically, prepare one or two things they often have. Then make something that your confident is really good and will show off your cooking skills.
Most importantly, it's the thought that counts, and you already got that!What is a proper meal to prepare when meeting a girlfriend's parents for the first time?
I'd say make something that you are very comfortable with cooking, and something that enables you to be in the living room with them MOST of the time, only leaving occasionally, and to serve it.
A couple of hints from my catering days. Get all the salad fixings ready well before (hours even); make sure the greens and vegetables are dry, cut up or torn, then placed in plastic bag (a new trash bag works well for this (the smaller ones like for kitchen trash cans). Put the salad dress in the bowl you are going to serve salad in beforehand; toss after you dump the greens in.
If you aren't into cooking desserts, buy something at Smart %26amp; Final, or Costo type places. They look great and most are good.
Be cool and calm. Good luck
I know you mentioned you wanted it to be a surprise meal. However, some people either hate, or like different things.
I would call them up and ask them if they would enjoy a dairy, meat, or chicken dinner. Ask them if they are allergic to anything special. Then work around that.
i cant think of anything traditional
something simple (but not excessively), not too formal, but nice
I'd go for pasta or a simple meat dish
(meat is pretty good for Christmas)
steak? turkey? sausages?
have side dishes too
don't make the dessert heavy (unless that is what they like)
Traditionally, people do something roasted (meat of your choice, vegetables, dessert) BUT my best advice is make something you KNOW you make REALLY well! Whatever it is, doesn't matter. If it's made well, they'll love it and really, if they're decent people even, they'd love whatever you made because it's a very nice thing to bother to do this for them at all =o)
I don't think there is a tradition meal for this. SO, if the parents don't have any allergies, you should just make whatever you cook best. Good Luck!
P.S. That's a nice thought. I'm sure you will win them over in no time. :)
chicken and baked potatoes a salad with choice of dressing and vanilla ice cream with something special such as home- made hot fudge sauce or fresh strawberries. Also homemade cookies if possible.. Offer sour cream, butter, black pepper and salt.
this is a meal almost all can enjoy.
Whatever their favourite is.
exlax brownies-seriously anything would be cool except my recomnedation
B.B.Q.....or a Roast.......
try some sort of pasta...
pie and chips from the local take away ... u cant go wrong and its all they would expect from a man
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