The Ingredients for a Romantic Night

Have you ever found yourself planning an impromptu date with your significant other?

Have you run out of ideas on what to do and furiously search for good date ideas on the internet and come up with mini golf as your best option?

Are your mini golf skills desperately worse than your partners? Would you like to spare yourself the embarrassment?

If your answer is yes then boy, do I have the solution for you!

What you’ll need:

1. A bottle of rosé. This is a key ingredient! The smoother the rosé the smoother your night!
2. A Netflix playlist full of either
   1. Adorable rom-coms
   2. Hilarious comedies
   3. Horrifying horrors
   4. Suspenseful thrillers
3. A white tablecloth.
4. 3 red roses, and a clear vase.
5. A yummy messy food. Think mashed potatoes. Extra cheesy. I hear Tim introduced gnocchi last week maybe check that out. I personally go with some vegetable lasagna and mashed potatoes. Sometimes ill go crazy and even make some sauteed asparagus.
6. A significant other. This one’s pretty key. I would strongly suggest obtaining one prior to beginning these plans. Perhaps this should have gone first. Oops!
7. Music. I’m not even sure what people think is romantic music anymore. Maybe ask your partner? Maybe Post Malone’s Better Now? But thats like a break up song? But it sounds romantic? I don’t know I am no expert. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdkhJhtxFl4)

Alright now that we have the ingredients lets talk about what to avoid.

1. DO NOT set the table after your partner arrives. I tried that. I spilled the water from the pretty flowers all over her. She wasn’t happy, I wasn’t happy, the flowers seemed dry. All around a recipe for disaster.
2. If you possess cats make sure they are not feral. If they are, and you want to show off their adorable furry ears, do so then put them in a separate room. If, hypothetically speaking, the cat were to begin hunting your partners hair and eventually climb onto her back all while scratching her dress, your date may feel slightly uncomfortable. Perhaps even perturbed.
3. Allergies are a thing. Adding onion to your lasagna and watching your date break out in eczema is not romantic to most people…
4. Make sure that the chandelier over the kitchen table is screwed in tightly. If it falls, and shatters both itself and any chance of your lasagna being edible because of tiny shards of glass then you may be out of a meal.

Then again, sometimes wearing PJ’s after putting lotion on your partners eczema and ordering pizza is romantic too. The most important component is really ingredient number 6. Find a good one and the rest of it sort of sets into place.

Good luck and may your night turn out sufficiently romantic!

-Eytan