SIMPLE:  Just before he is expected to arrive home, you put a skillet on LOW heat and put some vegetable oil in the skillet to get heated.  Now, add EITHER some chopped onion OR some chopped fresh garlic.

This is actually my mother's method of being sure Dad was home at dinner time, but great restaurants use this technique also.  Have you ever noticed that after the cocktail hour, you begin to notice wonderful, appetizing odors wafting in from the restaurant kitchen?  They are simmering garlic and maybe onions.   This causes people to become hungry.  They begin to order food.  This is the idea behind many successful restaurants and it is the key to cooking to please a man.

Let the skillet stay on LOW heat while you ask him about his day.  Then you can add whichever meat you are cooking for the evening meal to the skillet. 

Another good item is to put frozen ROLLS in the OVEN.  No man will leave if he smells fresh bread in the oven.