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Hey folks,

So I am cooking dinner for my girlfriend this next week and I am trying to think up some sort of trick I can do involving the food... any ideas (within reason!).

I thought I could get her to pick a card, vanish it then make it appear in her bread roll or something?

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From ordering it will probably take 2 days to arrive through your letterbox. With free postage it works out cheaper than other stores, and I have checked.

So not exactly a card, but a signed bank note.

But you could probably adapt it so it appears inside a piece of a bread bloomer. In fact it would work with a bread roll.

Have a TT and inside a red heart shaped silk with writing such as 'our love is magical' Written on it. Tear open a bread roll and voila! You can invite her to pull it out. When she has done that you can pull the roll fully apart and end clean.

Alec

How about a form of Bank Nite with a silver platter, and five hotdog rolls? Four are real hotdogs, the fifth is...

Well, watch the film Batchelor Party for a clue.

As long as she doesn't bite it!

Or how about just having dinner and letting the magic have a night off?

I'm not sure if that's within reason, but you can carefully bake a revelation/card into the food.

To be perfectly honest, I'd agree with Paul. Forget about the magic and just have a nice evening together.

This has been done to death and the short of it is: No, Don't, If you want a "magic" romantic evening just be yourself and nice to your lady; then maybe slip her the touge,

Alternatively maybe check out Sankey;'s "Firestarters"

Edit: upon re reading that it sounds a bit kras. sorry. I'm a nice enough guy really. My wife sometimes agress at least, and she couldn't care less about magic!

Dear Guys and Dolls,

He didnt ask if he should perform magic or not at his meal. He has already stated that he wants to do something special so lets get busy trying to help him, lets not put him off!

My suggestion is short and sharp and still involves romance. Anyone else have anything that can fit the bill??

Alec

He didnt ask if he should perform magic or not at his meal. He has already stated that he wants to do something special so lets get busy trying to help him, lets not put him off!

He never actually stated "special" in the post Alec, and that is the point. The post sounds like a magician thinking like a magician, for an "audience", rather than a man thinking for a woman.
Our role here is also to give advice - mine here would be "leave the magic alone", have a nice meal and talk about her and her life, aspirations and dreams instead.
It is of course, your evening however, so do whatever you want to destroy it, but IMHO the most magical thing you could do is to act like a "normal" person.
If you are having to ask the question of "...what trick to do", you are probably, (with the greatest of respect), probably not good enough to perform something powerful and congruent enough to add to the evening, all you will do is detract from it.
I would suggest you concentrate on making the "magic" something cooked stunningly well. Make sure you have amuse-bouche, make sugar cages, fold linen serviettes (if you really must...), write a hand-written menu using an italic caligraphy pen, serve dessert in an ice-bowl lined with rose petals, make some handmade chocolates to have with the coffee, have no lighting except 100 candles.
That's how to make a magical evening. It's all in the performance.
I'll shut up now.
Bruce

I wasn't meaning to bash the idea but from a girl's point of view I would really leave the magic alone. I know that if I was having a nice romantic dinner, I'd be much more impressed if the effort was put into making the evening perfect. I wouldn't be fussed about any magic. If you really do want to do something then a palm or tarot reading might be the best way to go.

Not food, but girls like flowers, so... Buy her a nice handmade Vase, and give it as a gift, nicely wrapped up. After she has unwrapped it you could do this...
Preparation: Wear a jacket, and have two real roses stashed upside down (stems wedged into your belt from the bottom up) behind your back, one on left hip, one on right & both hidden under your jacket. Remove the thorns! Small piece of Flash paper (sparkly stuff is good) in right and left hand in classic finger palm, lit candle on table within easy reach of you (and not too close to her!).
- Touch flash paper into candle flame with right hand, then do the same with left hand, and at the same time as the left hand flame happens, your right hand reaches behind you and grabs first rose and brings it to the front (rose now upright) and then left hand does the same. Pop them in the new vase...

Tommy Magic wrote:Not food, but girls like flowers, so... Buy her a nice handmade Vase, and give it as a gift, nicely wrapped up. After she has unwrapped it you could do this...
Preparation: Wear a jacket, and have two real roses stashed upside down (stems wedged into your belt from the bottom up) behind your back, one on left hip, one on right & both hidden under your jacket. Remove the thorns! Small piece of Flash paper (sparkly stuff is good) in right and left hand in classic finger palm, lit candle on table within easy reach of you (and not too close to her!).
- Touch flash paper into candle flame with right hand, then do the same with left hand, and at the same time as the left hand flame happens, your right hand reaches behind you and grabs first rose and brings it to the front (rose now upright) and then left hand does the same. Pop them in the new vase...

Or just buy a nice bunch of flowers and give them to her rather than terrifying her with exploding roses.

Reading the replies, anyone would think that men never cook for their partners and that this must be a super special occasion for a *man* to want to cook dinner for a *woman*, and therefore that this extremely deep and meaningful time should be accompanied by the traditionally appropriate candlelight and perhaps a heartfelt poem, rather than being sullied by magic. After all, you're clearly pouncing upon her with tricks at every other waking moment, she obviously deserves a night off.

It's not like he's saying he's going to propose to her with a cup and ball trick! Blimey!