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Nowadays, many new brides don’t posess much in the way of culinary art skills. In the day of oven dinners and ready made this, that and practically everything and anything else, chances are that that’s what brides ate themselves most of their lives.

During the initial stages of marriage money is usually in short supply so take-away dinners are not really a realistic option for the thrifty new couple.
This means that there’s few options to the bride other than to prepare a home cooked meal for the hard working bread winner at the end of his tiresome day.

Egg and chips or baked beans on toast don’t meet the desired criteria so the first option open to the frantic newbie wife is to call Mum. That may be good initially for a couple of times but what do you do when the cat get’s out of the bag and the doo doo hit’s the fan?
Reality sets in very hard and it’s one of the first legitimate reasons for those tentative trial experiences in the vast realm of marital rows, namely; your cooking stinks!

Yes it’s a cruel world but not to worry, help’s on the way!

Here’s a very simple dinner that will get him off your back. That is, at those time when you would rather he not be on it.

So here it is, the newly wed brides first day survival dinner:

“Roasted new potatoes, meat balls and broccholi”.

Nothing could be easier. You don’t even have to peel the potatoes!

The first thing that you need to do is to go to the butchers and buy one pound of ground meat, (hamburger meat to the USA).

Then go to the vegitable store and buy one pound of New potatoes (smallish), and a couple of broccoli heads.

Here’s how you prepare the meatballs:

Take the ground meat and put it into a bowl. Take two eggs and put their contents onto the ground meat. Add one teaspoon of chopped dried parsely, half a level teaspoon of black pepper and one bullion cube melted in about 1/4 cup of hot water. Now take 2/3 a cup of dampened bread crumbs and add that to the mixture. Add a 1/2 cup of finely chopped onions and one clove of crushed garlic and mix all the contents into a homogenous mass. Roll out into flattened balls and fry on a frying pan in about 1/4 inch of cooking oil.

There, wasn’t that easy?

Now for the potatoes. Don’t worry this part is easier still. Take your new potatoes and wash them with the skins on. Make sure that there are any unsightly bits, if you find any cut them out.

Put your potatoes into a large bowl. Add chopped fresh rosemary, 1/3 of a cup of olive oil, a teaspoon of drushed garlic, 1 teaspoon of sweet paprika, a little milled black pepper and salt to taste.

Mix all the ingredients thoroughly and tip them onto an oven try.
Cook them in your oven set to 200 degrees centigrade or oven mark four. Flip them around after about 15 minutes. They should be cooked after about 45 minutes to an hour.

Now the broccoli is easier still. All you have to do is to boil a pan of water big enough to fit the broccoli in and let it simmer. Broccoli cooks fairly fast sostay near the stove. The way to test if your broccoli is ready is to prick the stalk just below the fork of the branch before the flowers. If the pin goes in fairly easily, the broccoli is ready. You now need to turn off the stove and to drain the water off.

The easiest sauce to make for the broccoli is melted butter with a little garlic, salt and pepper. Pour the sauce gently over the broccoli once it’s on the plate.

Once hubby is adequately fed and watered that might be the time to ask him if you can buy the new shoes, dress or that car you saw earlier in the showroom on the high street.

If you can make this dinner successfully, the next step is … spaghetti bolonaise.