OP,

OK man, I am going to give you a serious ****ing answer. Ignore everyone trolling you.

http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/chicken_marbella/

Get 2.5 lbs of chicken pieces. These come in packs at the grocery store called like "chicken pieces" and are basically, um, cut up chicken pieces. Hopefully you can figure that out.

Divide all the other ingredients in half.

Let's assume she's showing up at 7pm.

Prepare all that **** as described in the recipe, and pop in the oven about 40 minutes before she is getting there. (6:20pm)

Open a bottle of wine.

Go to the grocery store and get a fancy loaf of bread and some roasted vegetables from the hot deli section. Pop them in the oven (put the vegetables into a baking dish of some sort so it looks like you made them) right when she rings the doorbell. (7pm)

When she gets there, tell her dinner is almost ready and pour her a glass of wine. 10-15 minutes later, take the stuff out of the oven together and dish it up.

Win.

I can't cook for crap on my own. Just look up a well reviewed recipe online and follow the directions. Easy game. Seriously, it's really easy, I've made dozens of dishes and almost all of them came out great. Just avoid anything that requires BAKING, that's where things get a little tricky/skillful.

Also, not a bad idea to have a little cooking time left for her to have a couple glasses of wine. Also, pair the meal with the wine: red meat - red wine, chicken and fish - white, etc.

Top Ramen, cut up some hot dogs in it to give it that high end look- it'll be so damn good she'll ask for the recipe; offer it in exchange for plowing her in the ass.

That one sounds good El Diablo. When we were taking a taxi back to her house this weekend she was telling me how she loves curry, is that hard to make or bad idea for date??

Every supermarket that I know of sells pre-cooked rotisserie chickens for $5. Got to be a loss leader. One of those + a bag of spring mix salad, bottle of ranch dressing.

The bigger prob is what drink to serve w/ it. I'd suggest a bottle of mid-priced red but I'm thinking that a girl that will let you **** her after knowing her for a few hours might prefer Mountain Dew.

You can't even make mac & cheese, ffs. Do NOT try to roll like El D.

I can make mac n cheese just not very well.

Ok, seriously, do this:
Tell her that you can't cook but you blurted out that you could cuz you really dig her and wanted to impress her - she'll be flattered, then offer her dinner out or cook together, grab some stuff from grocery store TOGETHER, get to know each other blah blah blah, cook at home TOGETHER while drinking wine (contributing to a minor if in U.S.-but eff it) and fun will ensue.
Definitely no curry cuz if you do plow her in the ass, you'll have Jackson Pollock art all over your sheets.

My last suggestion:

I'm Canadian she is legal drinking age

Kraft dinner was a dead giveaway. Anyhow, making a real curry is hard and you need like twenty ingredients. But damn it's good.

Then seriously do as I have said, if you go in trying to impress her w/ no cooking skills, you might put her in an awkward place by making her eat some god awful stuff-no offense. But come clean and do the party cooking and you guys won't care about dinner after the first bottle of wine-just have some appetizers to take care of some of the hunger.

Shopping and cooking together is a pretty god date idea, but she might be starving when she gets there. But cooking with a girl is great imo. Brings back fond memories.

And if she is really 19, Cap'n crunch might be a little sophisticated for her palette. Fruit loops, perhaps.

But it's his first time cooking for the girl, let him splurge on the Cap'n

Two words: Beef Wellington.

Following a recipe isn't hard, but if you haven't tried you'll likely screw it up. As easy as fish and chicken may be, you'll likely screw them up first time you try.

I would go with pasta with garlic/olive oil. Easy to find recipes online, "pasta aglio et olio." Simple, easy, and easy to step up the flavor by finishing with a bit of lemon juice and fresh parsley, and grated parmesan-- and works with a modestly priced wine.

The idea is that you do something really simple, but get nice ingredients and provide a little touch of seasoning.

Hope this helps, doubt it will. At some point you cop to not knowing how to cook but you are making an effort to impress her and hope that charm counts for something.

Good idea except that if he doesn't know how to cook he doesn't know how to shop, so it is an invitation to a clown show.

Btw, if you do go to store together for ingredients, make sure she pays for half-chicks love it when they're treated as equals.

Spend a day or two reading the steak thread.

They always say 'sense of humor' but they really mean 'big penis and cooks well'

A day or two - lol

Ya I would look like an idiot shopping looking for ingredients. I have til tomorrow night at 7 or 8. Might be leaning towards getting something from a nice market that I can pass off as my own, I doubt she would care if/when she finds out. A 19 year old broke university girl probably isn't use to getting more than free booze at a house party.

Tomorrow night? Then forget about the Gordy's idea about the steak thread- you'd still be reading.

What you can do instead of cooking is get take out at a real fancy restaurant, something like Sizzler or Olive Garden, then blindfold her and feed her-see if she can guess what she's eating.

pasta with garlic and olive oil

there you go. And you can say it in Italian.

eta: i'd add a bit of fresh lemon juice to the above, but if you follow that, good enough. Simple thing, but done in a special way that shows care for flavor.