You definitely need to arrange a romantic dinner for two. If you have never arranged such surprises for your soul mate, then now is the time to think about it by preparing a romantic menu.

The most important thing in a romantic meal, oddly enough, is not the food, but the entourage. That is, you, of course, can spend half a day preparing a wonderful dish or a whole parade of goodies, but you can’t do without some kind of theatrical performance. Otherwise, all the work will go down the drain. A romantic dinner can be made themed: arrange it, for example, in an oriental, Mexican or Indian style. To do this, decorate the room in the appropriate style, do not forget about candles and flowers, and prepare bright, but not heavy dishes. Oriental dishes are replete with spices and spices, which, as you know, are strong aphrodisiacs and will be quite out of place this evening. It is believed that the more attention is paid to external effects, whether it is an organza marquee over a table or candle trails throughout the house, the simpler dishes should be. And vice versa, a romantic surprise dinner in the garage among car tires must be served on the highest rank: on fine china, and dishes should be refined or exotic. Contrasts are always great.

However, it is quite enough to sprinkle the floors in the apartment with rose petals, put a lot of candles, dim the lights and turn on pleasant music. It is, as they say, a classic. If you decide to go down this path, then pay special attention to the dishes that you will cook. A romantic dinner is likely to continue in bed, which means that your dishes should be literally crammed with aphrodisiacs. Therefore, it is worth paying attention to seafood dishes.

"Culinary Eden" offers you several seafood dishes to choose from. From the proposed recipes, make a romantic menu for your date at the table and do not forget about light wine. First, a few salads.

Ingredients:
300 g seafood cocktail,
2 tomatoes
1 avocado
100 g natural yogurt,
2 tbsp olive oil,
5 tbsp balsamic vinegar,
7 pitted olives
greens - to taste.

Cooking:
Boil a sea cocktail, cool and put in a bowl. Peel the avocado, remove the pit, carefully remove the skin and cut into cubes. Blanch the tomatoes for 1 minute in boiling water, then dip in ice water, remove the skin and also cut into cubes. Combine yogurt, balsamic vinegar and olive oil and season the resulting sauce with a mixture of seafood, avocados and tomatoes. Pour the resulting mixture into glasses, garnish with olives, tomato slices and herbs.

Ingredients:
150 g salted salmon,
150 g crab meat,
150 g hard cheese,
4 eggs,
1 fresh cucumber
½ onion
sauce - natural yogurt, mustard, lemon juice (or mayonnaise, if you prefer).

Cooking:
Divide the boiled eggs into whites and yolks, grate the whites on a coarse grater. Cut the cucumber into strips, squeeze out excess moisture. Cut the onion into small cubes, grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Cut the salmon and crab meat into thin strips. Mix yoghurt with mustard and lemon juice, salt to taste. Put the salad in layers in transparent glasses, putting a spoonful of sauce on each layer: squirrels, cucumber, salmon, onion, crab meat, cheese. Decorate the top with mashed yolks and herbs to taste.

Ingredients:
1 can of krill meat
2 carcasses of squid,
100 g crab meat,
1 can of red caviar,
½ onion
8 large shrimp for garnish
yogurt sauce (from the previous recipe) or mayonnaise.

Cooking:
Boil the squid in boiling salted water, lowering the carcass for 2-3 minutes, then wait for the water to boil and lower the next carcass. Cool and cut into strips. Cut the onion into small cubes and soak in a weak solution of vinegar for 10-15 minutes. Cut the crab meat into strips, also cut the proteins into strips. Mash the krill meat with a fork. Combine all ingredients and season with yogurt sauce. Put in a salad bowl, put boiled shrimp on top and put a spoonful of caviar in the bend of each shrimp.

Hot dishes for a romantic dinner should be light and at the same time satisfying. Spicy fish dishes in an unusual breading or with an incredible sauce - just what you need!

Ingredients:
400 g cod fillet,
2 eggs,
2-4 tablespoons coconut flakes,
2-4 tablespoons breadcrumbs without additives,
2 eggs.

Cooking:
Dry the prepared fillet, salt, pepper, dip in a beaten egg and roll in a mixture of breadcrumbs and coconut flakes. Fry in hot oil on both sides. Garnish with fresh vegetable salad.

Ingredients:
600 g red freshly frozen fish,
3 tbsp frying oils.
Batter:
1 protein
½ stack mineral water,
¾ stack. flour,
salt, pepper - to taste.
Sauce:
2 tbsp liquid honey
100 g butter,
½ stack chopped walnuts,
1 orange.

Cooking:
Combine mineral water, flour, salt and pepper, mix well and add whipped egg white. Rinse the red fish fillet, remove the bones, cut into pieces 2 cm thick and dry. Dip fish pieces in batter and fry in vegetable oil. Place on paper towel to remove excess grease. For the sauce, melt the butter, mix with honey, add orange juice and boil the whole mass to a caramel-like mass. Add walnuts passed through a meat grinder. Pour the hot sauce over the fish and serve.

Ingredients:
2 salmon steaks about 2 cm thick,
1 tbsp olive oil,
1 onion
1 tsp mustard powder,
½ tsp dry garlic,
60 g breadcrumbs with spices,
2 tbsp mayonnaise,
salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
Preheat oven to 180°C. Heat the oil in a frying pan and sauté the finely chopped onion and dried garlic. Add salt and pepper and place in a bowl. Add breadcrumbs, mustard powder and mayonnaise to the onion. Mix until you get a paste. Add more mayonnaise if necessary. Lay the salmon fillets on a greased baking sheet and brush each piece with the breading mixture, making sure the layer is at least 6 mm thick. Bake for 10 minutes. Serve with fresh vegetable salad.

Ingredients:
100 g cod fillet,
150 g strawberries
100 g leaf lettuce,
½ onion
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp olive oil,
1 tsp apple juice
mustard, red ground pepper, salt - to taste.

Cooking:
Wash the strawberries, peel and cut into slices. Sort the lettuce, wash, dry and tear into small pieces. Cut the onion into thin half rings. Pour the prepared fish with half the lemon juice, salt and pepper. Fry the fish pieces on both sides. Combine the remaining lemon juice with 1 tbsp. water, apple juice, mustard and olive oil, add salt and pepper, mix. Put the salad, strawberries and onions on a dish, pour over the sauce, put the fried fish on top.

Ingredients:
250 large shrimp
2 tbsp olive oil,
1 fresh hot pepper without seeds
Sauce:
1 garlic clove
1 tsp chili powder,
1 tsp paprika,
¼ tsp cumin,
1 lime
4-5 tbsp mayonnaise,
salt, ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
Mix raw shrimp with oil and ground pepper and fry them in hot vegetable oil on both sides. Mix 1 tbsp. olive oil, garlic, chili, paprika, cumin, lime juice and mayonnaise, salt and pepper. Serve cooked shrimp with fresh vegetable salad, crispy bread and spicy sauce.

In addition to hot dishes and salads, cold appetizers can also be served at the table.

Ingredients:
300 g fatty smoked salmon or salmon fillet,
60 g butter,
1 tbsp vegetable oil,
1 tbsp lemon juice
4 tbsp fat cream,
a pinch of nutmeg,
freshly ground black pepper.

Cooking:
Grind the smoked fish fillets with a meat grinder or blender. Whip the butter and add it to the fish. Stir and add lemon juice, cream, nutmeg and pepper to the resulting mass. Mix thoroughly and place in a glass vase. Cool down in the refrigerator. Serve with hard bread or crackers.

Curd roll with seafood

Ingredients:
200 g cottage cheese,
2 eggs,
100-150 g wholemeal flour,
3 tbsp rye bran,
spices and salt - to taste.
Filling:
200 g shrimp and squid,
100 g corn
50-80 g brown rice,
2 eggs,
1 carrot
parsley and onion - to taste,
salt, spices.

Cooking:
Add eggs beaten with salt, flour, bran and spices to the cottage cheese, mix well and knead the uncooked dough. Boil rice until half cooked, add seafood, corn, greens and a raw egg, stir well, salt and pepper. Roll out the curd dough, lay out the filling and roll up. Brush the roll with the beaten egg and place in the hot oven for 40 minutes.

A romantic dinner is unthinkable without dessert. You can prepare delicate truffles or a low-calorie dessert. But after a fairly light seafood dinner, delicate chocolate fondants will come in handy. A cup of strong coffee and a piece of airy biscuit will complete your dinner for two.

Ingredients:
250 g dark chocolate,
250 g butter,
40 g flour
50 g sugar
4 eggs,
4 yolks,
vanillin or cinnamon - to taste.

Cooking:
Melt butter and chocolate in a water bath. Combine whole eggs and yolks. Pour the melted chocolate into the egg mixture in a thin stream, stirring constantly (not vice versa!), mix and gradually add the flour. Add flavorings, mix and pour the resulting mixture into muffin molds. Put the molds in a hot oven for 7-8 minutes. Serve with ice cream and strong coffee.

Ingredients:
2 kiwi,
100 g chocolate
300 ml heavy cream.
Cooking:
Cut the kiwi into pieces. Spread over two creamers. Melt the chocolate in a water bath. Whip cream, combine with chocolate and pour over kiwi. Garnish with nuts or berries.

Dessert "Twilight of the Gods"
Ingredients:
200 g strong coffee
100 g ice cream,
2-3 tsp cognac or liquor.

Cooking:
Divide the ice cream between two glasses, pour not too hot coffee and add cognac. You can also use liquor.

Haven't made a choice? Then be sure to look into our recipes with photos and you will definitely find a lot of delicious things there. Try to choose something else to compose your romantic menu. And it does not have to be dinner - an unusual breakfast or lunch can also become something unforgettable. Romance to you and new gastronomic discoveries!

Larisa Shuftaykina

How often, in the daily hustle and bustle, we women forget to arrange small holidays for our beloved men ... And then we expect some surprises, pleasant little things and an invariably romantic mood from them in return. We are women, let's be wiser! There is a proposal to think over and arrange a romantic evening in oriental style for your beloved man - alone with him, at home, when you have the whole evening and the whole night at your disposal. Let's make a list of things that will come in handy for organizing such an evening.

The main attribute of an evening in oriental style is a hookah

First of all, these are hookah, hookah tobacco, coal, oriental concubine costume and small interior blanks just to create an atmosphere of sensual oriental magic and sexuality. Buying a hookah is not a tricky business. Today, the Russian market is full of a wide variety of offers, and you can buy this fashionable oriental "interior and leisure accessory" by visiting any tobacco store, or a specialized online store. The main thing is not to get lost when choosing a device for smoking. It is best to buy a hookah of medium size, it is about 60 cm from the floor to the top of the hookah in assembled form. Such a hookah is perfect for you for frequent smoking for two, it is both convenient and at the same time not bulky, compact, it is easier to find a suitable storage place for it, and many shops offer gift cases for hookahs. When choosing a hookah, of course, do not forget about tobacco. Tobacco for hookah is different and is classified for the most part by strength and aroma. Choose the flavors that you especially like so that while smoking you do not have a dislike for any smell. That is why it is better to start with the options we have adopted as classic, thanks to the hookah menu in restaurants and themed cafes - apple tobacco, orange.

The image of an oriental beauty

The next thing to think about in detail is your costume and appearance. It should be sexy and frank, made in an oriental style, from light flowing fabrics with intricate decorations. Of course, you can buy a ready-made costume, but you can also make it yourself. You need to buy a "veil" type fabric, sew long skirt, which will be held on the hips, or translucent harem pants, pick up a bra in the color of the fabric and embroider it with sequins. Cover the head with a veil made of the same thin fabric as the skirt. Do not forget about decorations designed in the same style, do not strive to have too many of them. Hair can be styled in cool curls, collected to the top, or, on the contrary, loosened over the shoulders with a heavy, misty veil. Try not to use a lot of hairspray, it often adds an extra smell and makes the hair not very pleasant to touch. Complete the image of an oriental beauty with makeup, focusing on eyes with dark eyelashes and black arrows, as well as the right perfume. As a fragrance, a perfume from the oriental oriental amber family is perfect, the smells of vanilla and resin will give a warm and intoxicating feeling of enveloping sexual attraction for a partner, perfumes with spices or rodo perfumes from the East based on essential oils- no less successful option. Do not use too much fragrance, one drop at a time on the wrists, behind the ears and in the hollow of the chest - the final smell should not be too harsh, especially if you use scented candles in the design of the room. Perfume can be replaced with a perfumed body spray.

room atmosphere

It remains to decorate the room. Cover the bed with silk bed linen saturated dark - red or burgundy color - with an embroidered blanket. The more patterned the blanket, the better. There should also be some kind of patterned covering with an ornament on the floor. Scatter silk pillows around the room, and more - you can sit on the floor on them. Think of what you can use as cushions under your back, so that there is a semblance of low oriental sofas, on which oriental men usually recline while smoking a hookah. Prepare a low table. It is on this that a hookah should stand according to all the rules of hookah smoking. We put the hookah in the center of this table. Nearby we have everything you need - tobacco for hookah, coal, lighter, tongs for coal. In addition to the hookah, you need to put a treat for your beloved man on the table. Let these be the sweetest dishes of oriental cuisine, which are not just delicacies, but also aphrodisiacs - oriental sweets: baklava, churchkhella, marshmallow, marmalade. Add a dish with sweet fruits such as bananas, kiwi, mango, grapes, peach. Perfect for eastern evening ice cream with hot syrup and nuts, an apple cut into thin slices and toasted with cinnamon and lemon juice. Remember that there should be no alcohol on the table. Hookah is not compatible with alcohol, which can ruin your evening. Brew better good tea - black, green, blooming flower in a transparent bowl, red with fruit - anyway, choose the one you like best. Serve tea on the table in a teapot and put special tulip-shaped cups, these are special Turkish tea containers.

Oriental cuisine is a generalized concept that combines Asian, Arabic, Caucasian and even Balkan cuisines. The feature that unites them is the frequent use of foods such as lamb and rice, as well as spices, for cooking. The latter make oriental cuisine truly unique! Another very significant feature of oriental cuisine is the absence of "liquid" soups. Here they tend to look more like thick gravy. Thanks to this, the first dishes are quite high-calorie and satisfying. The second dishes are very diverse, but the most popular one that comes to mind first is pilaf!

So, in order to understand all the specifics of oriental cuisine, we turn to each of its components! Let's start with Asian cuisine, which includes such countries:

As for Arabic cuisine, it has similar features from one country to another. So, for example, in Arab countries do not eat pork at all, which is associated with a religious ban on this product. All other types of meat are not prohibited, and therefore are widely used in traditional recipes. By the way, the most popular is lamb. All kinds of cereals and legumes are used in Arabic cuisine, which go as a side dish to fish or a meat dish. As for desserts, they are usually made on the basis of local fruits and honey. Baklava can be safely called the most famous sweet! The most common drinks are coffee, the preparation of which is a real ritual, as well as very sweet black tea.

Caucasian kitchen, as one of the trends in Eastern cuisine, is characterized by the use of meat in the preparation of many dishes, in particular lamb. Caucasians pay great attention to milk products - these are mainly cheeses and sour-milk drinks. The use of vegetables and fruits depends on the fertility of each individual region. In general, Eastern Caucasian cuisine can be characterized by the following rule: "the higher the mountains, the simpler the dishes."

Cuisine of the countries of the Balkan Peninsula(Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Croatia and Montenegro) is rather a generalized concept on a territorial basis. The dishes of these eastern countries differ significantly! Although there is still one common feature - this is a high calorie content, which provides satiety.

It is obvious that oriental cuisine is very diverse and the recipes for its dishes vary not only by country, but even by region. Therefore, in this section of our website, we will try to place as many detailed recipes as possible with step by step photos to introduce you to the cuisine of the East better!

*photo from internet

Most often in our life we ​​need to cook something very quickly, without bothering with all sorts of “fildepers” and haute cuisine. Most of us are working women, but no one has canceled cooking dinner for the family. And there are still such examples when we don’t want warmed up, but only fresh, only from under the knife.

And after all, you want something tasty, and not semi-finished products from the culinary department.
accessible and quick option dinner will be stew or sauté.
To do this, you must have good meat (chicken fillet, or turkey fillet, or beef tenderloin, or pork tenderloin, or pork fillet), fresh or fresh-frozen vegetables, soy sauce, olive oil, mixtures of various herbs.

This recipe contains buckwheat soba noodles as a side dish - we just love it very much :) and we highly recommend it to you!

• Total time: 35 minutes
• Preparation: 10 minutes
• Cooking: 25 minutes
Servings: 4-5

Ingredients:

• - 500 g
• - 250 g
• - 300 g
• - 2 pieces of medium size
• - 2 tbsp
• - how much vegetables will take
• - taste
• - 150 g
• - to taste, for serving
• - 1 tsp

Cooking order:

Cut the beef and eggplant into 1 cm thick cubes. Salt the eggplant and set aside.
Cut the shiitake in half (if large).
Peppers: Remove the core with seeds, cut in half lengthwise and cut into cubes.

Heat up a frying pan, pour vegetable oil. Fry the beef on all sides until tender (6-8 minutes), put in a deep dish, cover with foil and put in a warm place.

Squeeze the eggplants and fry them until tender (7-8 minutes). Transfer the cooked eggplant to the beef.

Fry pepper and mushrooms together for 5 minutes (until cooked).
“Return” the beef and eggplant to the pan, be sure to drain the juice formed in the bowl there (into the pan). Stir, add soy sauce, salt and pepper mixture to taste, thyme, reduce heat to medium and simmer for five minutes.

When serving, sprinkle the dish with finely chopped green onions.

If you replace the meat with any other mentioned above, the cooking time will not change :)

Bon appetit to you and your family.

First of all, these are hookah, hookah tobacco, coal, oriental concubine costume and small interior blanks just to create an atmosphere of sensual oriental magic and sexuality. Buying a hookah is not a tricky business. Today, the Russian market is full of a wide variety of offers, and you can buy this fashionable oriental "interior and leisure accessory" by visiting any tobacco store, or a specialized online store. The main thing is not to get lost when choosing a device for smoking. It is best to buy a hookah of medium size, it is about 60 cm from the floor to the top of the hookah in assembled form. Such a hookah is perfect for you for frequent smoking for two, it is both convenient and at the same time not bulky, compact, it is easier to find a suitable storage place for it, and many shops offer gift cases for hookahs. When choosing a hookah, of course, do not forget about tobacco. Tobacco for hookah is different and is classified for the most part by strength and aroma. Choose the flavors that you especially like so that while smoking you do not have a dislike for any smell. That is why it is better to start with the options we have adopted as classic, thanks to the hookah menu in restaurants and themed cafes - apple tobacco, orange.

The image of an oriental beauty

The next thing to think about in detail is your costume and appearance. It should be sexy and frank, made in an oriental style, from light flowing fabrics with intricate decorations. Of course, you can buy a ready-made costume, but you can also make it yourself. You need to buy a “veil” type fabric, sew a long skirt that will stay on the hips, or translucent harem pants, choose a bra in the color of the fabric and embroider it with sequins. Cover the head with a veil made of the same thin fabric as the skirt. Do not forget about decorations designed in the same style, do not strive to have too many of them. Hair can be styled in cool curls, collected to the top, or, on the contrary, loosened over the shoulders with a heavy, misty veil. Try not to use a lot of hairspray, it often adds an extra smell and makes the hair not very pleasant to touch. Complete the image of an oriental beauty with makeup, focusing on eyes with dark eyelashes and black arrows, as well as the right perfume. A perfume from the oriental oriental amber family is perfect as a fragrance, the smells of vanilla and resin will give a warm and intoxicating feeling of enveloping sexual attraction for a partner, perfumes with spices or rodo perfumes from the East based on essential oils are no less a good option. Do not use too much fragrance, one drop at a time on the wrists, behind the ears and in the hollow of the chest - the final smell should not be too harsh, especially if you use scented candles in the design of the room. Perfume can be replaced with a perfumed body spray.

room atmosphere

It remains to decorate the room. Cover the bed with rich dark red or burgundy silk bedding with an embroidered duvet. The more patterned the blanket, the better. There should also be some kind of patterned covering with an ornament on the floor. Scatter silk pillows around the room, and more - you can sit on the floor on them. Think of what you can use as cushions under your back, so that there is a semblance of low oriental sofas, on which oriental men usually recline while smoking a hookah. Prepare a low table. It is on this that a hookah should stand according to all the rules of hookah smoking. We put the hookah in the center of this table. Nearby we have everything you need - tobacco for hookah, coal, lighter, tongs for coal. In addition to the hookah, you need to put a treat for your beloved man on the table. Let these be the sweetest dishes of oriental cuisine, which are not just delicacies, but also aphrodisiacs - oriental sweets: baklava, churchkhella, marshmallow, marmalade. Add a dish with sweet fruits such as bananas, kiwi, mango, grapes, peach. Ice cream with hot syrup and nuts, an apple cut into thin slices and fried with cinnamon and lemon juice is perfect for an oriental evening. Remember that there should be no alcohol on the table. Hookah is not compatible with alcohol, which can ruin your evening. Brew better good tea - black, green, blooming with a flower in a transparent bowl, red with fruits - anyway, choose the one you like best. Serve tea on the table in a teapot and put special tulip-shaped cups, these are special Turkish tea containers.

When your long-awaited guest arrives, seat him comfortably, pour tea for him, and start lighting the hookah. Be sure that the atmosphere you create will be a feast for the soul and body of your beloved man..

Py.sy.Girls, I threw some information to myself, we can come in handy for you, maybe I forgot something, do not be shy, write !!! I keep dreaming of my beloved to arrange an evening in oriental style, but there is no one to leave the child at night ... I agreed on the account of an apartment with a friend, she will let us in (we live with our parents), but the question is - if I close the curtains and arrange it during the day - the effect is not the same?

And the drinks?????? And how to make a costume of an oriental beauty yourself ??????