Valentine’s Day now has a permanent place in the calendar of festivals and celebrations and is a great occasion for eating together with your partner. You don’t even have to go out.
Give away a romantic dinner for Valentine’s Day
With a great selection of ideas and tips, we show you how to conjure up a great Valentine’s Day meal at home. Because here you can best enjoy togetherness and spend a relaxing evening. Also, note the tips to win back the lost love.
1. Heart is trump
Of course, the heart is the most important symbol on Valentine’s Day. If you don’t have a heart-shaped plate available, you can still put a heart on the plate with a very simple trick. Simply arrange the prepared food in the shape of a heart. Whether rice, pasta, or other side dishes – with a little patience and a spoon you can put the side dishes on the plate in the shape of a heart.
2. Candlelight dinner
Stage your own private candlelight dinner for Valentine’s Day. You should think about the menu sequence in advance. How about a tomato cream soup as a starter, spaghetti vongole (with mussels) as the main course, and a strawberry cupcake as dessert. Much more important than the food on this day, however, is what’s around it: decorate the table nicely with heart-shaped napkins, light long candles, and put on romantic piano jazz – and you’ll have a real candlelight dinner feeling at home.
3. A delicious strawberry smoothie
Of course, February isn’t the best time for fresh strawberries – but you’re sure to find fresh strawberries for Valentine’s Day in a specialist shop. You can also use frozen fruit in a pinch. Mix the chopped strawberries with a little banana and milk or yogurt in a blender to make a delicious smoothie. A few chia seeds provide an interesting effect in the smoothie.
4. It can also be stimulating
Valentine’s Day is about nothing but love. And as we all know, love goes through the stomach. A libido-increasing effect is attributed to certain foods and foods, i.e. sexual desire increases after eating these foods. So why not give love a little boost this Valentine’s Day by preparing a “stimulating” menu? Foods that can be used are asparagus, coriander, celery, ginger, chili, spinach, or artichokes.
5. Start Valentine’s Day in bed
Even if Valentine’s Day doesn’t fall on the weekend, you can start it off with breakfast in bed. This is how this special day gets off to an extraordinary start. Prepare everything in the evening so that you don’t have to stand in the kitchen for half an hour to prepare everything in the morning. How about, for example, pancakes with coffee or banana syrup or scrambled eggs with prawns and parsley. If you serve a glass of sparkling wine or Prosecco with your coffee, your circulation will really get going.
6. It can also be something special
On Valentine’s Day, you can also treat yourself to something that you might otherwise not consider in everyday life for cost reasons. How about e.g. fresh truffle. It is ideal for truffle spaghetti or other pasta. Or have you ever thought of caviar? The sturgeon eggs are still considered the epitome of luxury. It tastes great as an accompaniment to smoked salmon with egg. And of course, you can also dig deeper into your pocket for champagne. It doesn’t have to be a Dom Perignon, but in the price range of around 30 euros, you get excellent champagne.
7. Valentine’s Day menu suggestion
There is no such thing as the perfect menu for Valentine’s Day, but here’s a suggestion for you: Start the menu with a hearty toast. To do this, cut a heart out of a slice of toast with a cutter, fill the opening with an egg, for example, and then fried in the pan. A juicy pepper steak flambéed with a little cognac is a good main course. And for dessert, serve a strawberry pudding with pink ground pepper.
8. Recipe for friends without Valentine
Maybe you have someone in your circle of friends or acquaintances who doesn’t have Valentine’s and can’t celebrate the day the way you would imagine. You might be able to cheer them up with a Broken Heart cake. To do this, bake a cake in the shape of a heart, but cut it in two. And on one side there is a “little man figure” with which the recipient can use toothpicks to get rid of her Valentine’s frustration in a voodoo way.
