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Birthday meal for me mum ;)
It's my mums birthday coming up but I don't know what to get her. So, as a little gesture I thought I'd get some ingredients and cook a three course meal for her, my step-dad, myself, and my sister. One problem. I have no idea what to cook! Something with not too much prep and I kinda want the three courses to go together... meat for main maybe? lemony thing for pudding? I don't know. :D Any suggestions welcome... :D
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I love to cook and learned to do so watching the different cooks on TV. It is not all that hard just star slow and easy and work your way up.
If you are a beginning cook the basic rule I would suggest is to keep it simple. Plan a meal with the Entree that has minimal ingredients. This will keep the prep time to a minimum as well.
Your mom is going to enjoy whatever you prepare for it is the effort and the gesture she will love.
First: You want to center your meal around your Entree. So go online and type the following phrase into your search engine; "easy recipes for beginning cooks" This will return a number of websites for you to look at. Some will offer only the main course and others will give you an entire meal plan.
Steaks, Chops and Chicken are the easiest to prepare. Just remember with chicken you must cook it until it comes to a proper temperature which depends on what your cooking as to how you tell. If you are cooking a whole chicken you take the temperature at the thigh and it should be 185.
For your first course there are a number of ways to go. Salads are easy to prepare and there are a number of different ways to prepare a salad with any number of different ingredients. Prep time is minimal. Here again ideas can be found on the web by typing in "salad recipes".
You could also go for something like shrimp cocktail using precooked and shelled shrimp purchased at the supermarket. Steamed clams are also easy to prepare.
Soup goes with just about any main course. Soup can be prepared using any variety of canned or prepackaged soups. Lately I have found the the organic offerings or all Natural offerings of soups are more tasty than the condensed or standard variety. They are a bit more expensive though.
Dessert: This course could cause you the most time in the kitchen. If you want to prepare something yourself I would suggest a packaged Brownie mix or if your more adventurous; you could try a packaged cake mix. must follow the directions on the package. It would be a help if you or mom have a mixer of some type should you decide on the cake mix.
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it depends on what type of food she likes.
For the appetizer, you could do a salad.
Those are always simple, and jsut figure out what type of thigns she likes in her salad.
For dinner, you could do chicken, pork chops, steak, or whatever is easiest for you.
There are many different recipes for those types of meats to make it something differet.
Now for dessert, one of my favorites is a cake.
It's called Better Than Sex Cake. Or Heath Cake.
It's delicious, especially if you like chocolate, caramel, and whip cream! And its so simple to make.
Those are the three things I would do.
If you want more ideas, than I can give you a couple..
For the first part you could do chips and salsa
cheese dip
spinach dip
bean dip
It's hard to do because I'm not too sure what types of food your mother likes, or even the rest of your family.
Pasta is always an easy one. You could do spagetti and meatballs, with some garlic bread
you could do chicken alfredo
chicken fried rice with brocolii
chicken all la king- which is shredded white chicken in chicken broth, with peas, over corn bread.
beef tips and noddles
fried chicken with potatoes, carrots, greenbeans, ect.
make sure you include some type of bread.
those are always a plus.
but if you want more ideas.
go to google, and type in "quick and easy three course meals"
and see what you get. You may find better ideas dealing with what your mother truely likes.
I know she will love whatever you have planned for her. A day from not cooking will be something she will appreciate. You could always make her breakfast in bed, my mom loved that when I did that for her.
I saw that you said that you don't know what to get her, so if you don't mind, I can give you some ideas in that category...
Every year, I write my mom a note, telling her how much I appreciate her, and how much she has impacted my life for the better. Sometimes moms can feel unappreciated, so having a letter that she can reread whenever she is feeling that way, always makes them feel good. Than I'll put the letter in a nice, sweet card for her.
One year, I took her out to eat to her favorite place; and than I got her a cupcake by GiGi's- if you aren't familiar with that, they are delicious!
One year I got her some potpurie stuff to make the house smell good. I even got her a mother daughter ring and neclace with our names engraved on it.
If you interested in that, theres a place called Limoges Jewelry online, and they have cheap, engraved mother daughter/son jewelry that she will cherish forever.
If you are interested in that than you can go to Facebook.com and type in Limoges Jewelry in the search bar of facebook and you will get an access code for free shipping and handling and sometimes a $10 off coupon.
If you need anything else, just inbox me!
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