Guys' Guide to Impressing Your Prom Date by Fixing Dinner - Even If You Can't Cook! (Part Two - Veggie)

OK, we've already established that Prom is an expensive project. And if you're wanting to impress that special lady, you're shouldering quite a large part of the cost. Expensive prom tickets, expensive tux, expensive flowers, expensive transportation.... Expensive dinner? That part can be different! You can make a beautiful dinner for two, without a lot of money or cooking skill. You can be a "chick flick hero"! You know? The guy who plans the romantic dinner for two in the back yard, in the forest, on the golf course....

Menu reminder:

MENU
"Berry-Nutty" Lettuce Salad
Chicken Cacciatore with Bowtie Pasta
Orange-Glazed Baby Carrots
Croissants with Butter/Margarine
Chocolate-Cherry Mini Trifles
Sparkling Juice

We've already covered the salad in the first article. If you can pour, stir, and run the microwave, you can handle this recipe.

This episode is the veggie: Honey Orange-Glazed Baby Carrots.

Ingredients you will need:
2-3 cups of baby carrots
1/8 cup butter or margarine
1/4 cup orange juice
1/4 cup honey

Supplies/equipment you will need:
1 cup measuring cup
glass microwave safe dish (medium size), with cover
strainer
1/4 cup measuring cup
small plastic or glass mixing bowl
serving spoon
2 pretty dinner (large size) plates
2 dinner (long) forks

HOW TO

1. Open bag of baby carrots and measure 2 or 3 cups into the microwave safe dish.
2. Pour water in dish, about 1/2 inch deep.
3. Cover dish and microwave on high, 10 to 15 minutes, or until easy to stick with fork.
4. Set strainer in sink and pour carrots into strainer, to drain.
5. While carrots drain, put 1/8 cup butter in mixing bowl, and melt in microwave.
6. Stir 1/4 cup orange juice and 1/4 cup honey into melted butter.
7. Put carrots back in microwave dish and pour glaze over.
8. Cover and let sit in glaze until time to serve.
9. Just before serviing, reheat for 60 to 90 seconds.
10. Use serving spoon to scoop onto dinner plate, and to spoon extra glaze over carrots.

Next Time: Part Three - Main Dish (Chicken Cacciatore with Bowtie Pasta)

Meanwhile, how's that training coming with your obnoxious little sister?