Dinner and a Movie Quick Tip

From Jeff Cohen,

Cook a New Recipe, Rent a Fun Flick, and Enjoy a Great Date

Dinner and a movie is always a classic date. However, you don't have to go out to an expensive restaurant, followed by movie tickets, to score points with your boyfriend or girlfriend.

Instead, you can cook one of these delicious recipes and rent or buy one of these entertaining, romantic movies. You'll save money while also enjoying a great night home together.

Top Five Easy to Cook Recipes
(courtesy of About's Guide to Southern U.S. Cuisine, Dianna Rattray).
Salisbury Steak
An easy and flavorful ground beef recipe. Steaks are made with ground beef, seasonings, and served with an easy gravy with mushrooms and red wine.

Chicken a la King
This chicken a la king recipe is made with cooked chicken and a thickened sauce. Chicken a la king ingredients include cooked chicken, milk, onion, mushrooms, butter, pimiento and rice or toast.

Aloha Salmon
This is a tasty salmon recipe great for dinner or a hot weather meal. Served chilled, it includes tomatoes, cucumber, onions, black pepper, garlic, and dressing.

Fettuccine Alfredo
This dish includes fettuccine with an easy-to-prepare parmesan cheese sauce. Add some cream butter and seasonings and it's ready to go.

Veal Stew
An easy veal stew recipe with cubed veal, cream of mushroom soup, carrots, rice, and other vegetables.

Top Five Romantic Movies
When Harry Met Sally
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan- Tracks a star-crossed pair as they repeatedly drift apart and meet again over a span of 13 years and gradually fall madly, deeply, passionately into friendship, and eventually romance.

Sleepless in Seattle
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan- Sam Baldwin is a good father and a successful architect. But he's also a lonely widower. One night his precocious 8-year-old son Jonah calls a late-night radio talk show seeking a new girlfriend.

Ghost
Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze- After renovating their expensive loft in the TriBeCa section of Manhattan, Molly and Sam, a young successful yuppie couple, are walking home one evening when Sam is tragically gunned down.

Dirty Dancing
Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey- It's summer, 1963. Baby, 17 years old and all idealistic innocence, is vacationing with her parents in the Catskills. She meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, and is mesmerized by him.

Titanic
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet- Featuring spectacular special effects set amidst the backdrop of one of the most tragic events of the 20th Century, the sinking of the Titanic.