February 10, 2007

Impress your other half with these red-hot recipes for Valentine's Day

Valentine's night, as I've probably mentioned in the past, is one of the worst nights of the year to go out for dinner. As you sit there with all the other couples, being charged a fortune for the privilege of eating food resembling a heart or other such nonsense, it's hard not to feel ripped off.
One answer would be to go somewhere really special for a celebration with a group of friends; I recently went to Burgh Island, a romantic private island off the coast of south Devon to stay in a wonderfully evocative art deco hotel (www.burghisland.com).

If you're celebrating at home, however, as I probably will be, then I think cooking food to share is probably the most romantic thing to do - food that you can eat with your hands, and don't have to be too prim and proper about.

Includes recipes for:

Lobster thermidor

Roast duck with blood orange sauce

Braised chicory

Rhubarb and Pomona trifle

Full article here.