Creative, Romantic Recipes that Cost Little but Have Big Taste

Are you barely able to pay your rent let alone you're college fees? Are you faced with the decision to blow college to keep housing or move in with you're parents to stay in school? Well, keep those bills coming 'cause I have for you a list of quick and easy personal recipes that not only make a delectable meal for one, but also a romantic dinner for two. Enough of the jokes (don't worry, I have more), lets get ready to rumble!

Note: I will not disclose any of my best recipes, especially not my secret family recipe for great pasta, which is carefully guarded by my dog Nikki, isn't that right, Nikki? Nikki??

Good Night Grilled Cheese:

It's much more impressive than it sounds, but only use it for good, not for evil. Serve it at night and follow up with a desert.

Ingredients:

white bread/honey-wheat bread
roma tomatoes
dill pickle slices
mozzarella/ jack cheese
cheddar cheese
strawberries (serve as instructed)
sliced turkey (optional)
mayonnaise (optional)
A hint of love

I will tell you how to prepare all the ingredients. If you don't like some of them, just subtract them. Spread a generous (but careful) amount of mayonnaise onto the bread and cover it with a slice of turkey (use two slices if you feel unsafe). Now add the white and cheddar cheeses, 4-5 dill pickle slices, and one slice of Roma tomato at each corner of the sandwich. Top with bread. Now lightly glaze the surface of a cooking pan with canola oil, slap that sucker on, and heat both sides to a medium crisp (tip: black is not medium). To be more specific, light the stove to a medium level, and both bread surfaces should be grilled to a brown, but not scorched.

Divide the sandwich into four pieces and put spaces between them. This is where the strawberries come into play. The strawberries are what give the meal it's glamor. Without the strawberries, you're just serving cheap grilled cheese sandwiches (I'm setting myself up, here). Be creative with them, but whatever you do, don't eat all your own. Save yours for desert, and I'm not talking about the ice cream *wink.* I have two serving recommendations. Imagine the sandwich pieces as the four quadrants of the mathematical coordinate plane.

Wrap identical strawberries around any two quadrants, or alternatively, place the strawberries as so from largest to smallest or smallest to largest. My second, highly recommended suggestion is that you take the leaves out of your gal's strawberries but keep them in you're own. This shows your girl that you care about her, that you don't mind if you have your leaves in as long as her needs have been met. In two hours (the amount of time it takes a woman to finish a meal), you might find out why my dish is called "The Goodnight Grilled Cheese."

Red Tuna Sandwich:

Another name for this simple pleasure could be "The Blood and Artery Power Cleaner." This is the perfect lunch for a college student because not only is it extremely healthy, but it's so cost-efficient that you can eat it every day.

Ingredients:

one red onion (buy 4 small onions if you're shopping. You'll save money for quality)
a can of tuna tuna.

your favorite bread

a large glass of water (in case you put too many onions on).

You should probably mix the tuna with mayonnaise, but I'm just throwing that out there. DO NOT dice the onions. Rather, keep them in rings to retain their flavor. Press a heaping portion of tuna onto your sandwich and spread small red onion rings across the surface. If you put on too many, you learned the hard way. Enjoy your water.