With your nuts on the chopping board...

[MoeFOH]

(hopefully not literally, unless it's your pine nuts or almonds...), what's your go-to home-cooked dish when you need to impress the socks (or pants, depending on the scenario) off of someone? 

[Cayman17]

Bucatini with sausage, beans and greens

[LGC]

Chocolate soufflé with creme anglaise

[MrGlass]

If it's for up to four people, I'll cook eye fillets with duck fat roasted potatoes, mushrooms and some veggies.  My Weber baby Q does a fantastic job with steak, you just can't fit an awful lot in it.

If it's a bigger group, I cook roast beef with a horseradish and mustard marinade that's wrapped in a bacon weave.  It's pretty easy to put together, feeds plenty, and you can pair it with whatever salad takes your fancy that day.

[westg]

Very labour intensive...usaully works on everyone 20180329_092322.mp420180329_092322.mp4

[earthson]

Northern Italian cream sauce pasta. Can be customized for the group/occasion. Last time was shallot, dill and crimini with grilled Cornell chicken.

A real panty-dropper, that dish.

[Kitchen]

Pretty much anything that involves braising, which I take to the next level.  Usually I spend a minimum of a day and half on braising a piece of meat, combined total of marinating, to searing, to slow cooking and the final preparation. 

My two favorites are braised short ribs then seared & wrapped in caul fat served with root vegetables, and mole shredded pork tacos with re-fried black beans.  My favorite cuisines are French and Mexican. 

[Habana Mike]

center cut filet mignon with seared foie gras and cognac cream sauce is my go to panty dropper dish....