10 special Valentine's Day recipes for dessert dinners
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Valentine's Day is notoriously a difficult night to eat in a restaurant. Even if you are able to hang a reservation for your usual location, it can be too expensive, crowded and precipitated while your server tries to make room for the next two tops. Instead, we suggest opening a bottle of wine at home and making one of the recipes below, chosen by our publishers. From cooking projects such as beef stew to an easy chocolate dessert, these recipes are all delicious ways to show your love – no required reservation.
Creamy mushroom pasta with agriculture butter
Victor Protasio / Food Styling by Julian Hensarling / Styling by Christina Daley
As a former restaurant of catering and server, I never dine for Valentine's Day – I have too many souvenirs of balancing long roses on the quail (AKA, “Lovebirds”). My husband and I will probably make pasta, as we did during our first Valentine's Day together. My local grocery store has beautiful wild mushrooms in stock, so we will make my pasta with creamy mushrooms with garlic-shisian butter. Handling by hand is not too much work, and it is a fun dinner project. We sip the wine and play music while we use our manufacturer of pasta by hand to roll and cut long ribbons of pasta paste. It is a cooking project that looks like an appointment, and it is the most important thing. – Chandra Ram, assistant editorial director, food
Julia Child's best beef stew
Matt Taylor-Gross / Food Styling Debbie Week
Nothing says “I love you” like drying each piece of an entire stew of beef individually with paper towels. Many occasions that I have marked with stews of high intensity of labor – perhaps the least photogenic of food – because in the hands of Julia Child (my corn of the stew), they always become more than the sum of their parts. Warm, nourishing and perfectly delicious treatments are apparent in each piece of brown beef. – Molly Mcardle, update editor
Birria tacos
Every night is a good night for tacos, whatever the occasion. These birria tacos of chef Claudette Zepeda are loaded with a deep and earthy chiliée flavor with Adobo sauce. The best part: the mixture of braised and shredded beef can be made one day in advance, so that you are not stuck on the stove on Valentine's Day. When it's time to eat, just assemble the tacos, crisp them on a heating plate and open a few beers. – Paige Grandjean, food editor
Stretched
This year has marked the end of a six -year relationship with someone who hates olives. So you know what I'm doing for Valentine's Day this year? Puttanesca: A tomato sauce filled with the health flavors of olives, capers and anchovies of Kalamata. Word with spaghetti, this meal only takes 40 minutes to do, leaving me enough time to take post-dinner cocktails with friends. Self love, baby! – Amelia Schwartz, assistant editor -in -chief
Taiwanese beef noodle soup
Greg Dupree / Food Styling by Torie Cox / Prop Styling by Shell Royster
Valentine's Day happens to be three days before our birthday, so I like to do everything and do something I know he will like: a seasonal and comforting dish, but always scorching and comforting. I start a few weeks in advance, heading to the Asian grocery store at one hour from my home to replenish certain essential elements of Chinese cuisine: Doubanjiang (spicy bean paste), wheat noodles and marinated mustard vegetables. The week of, I'm going to pick up the beef rod and the chuck, the green onions, ginger and a lot of green vegetables like Baby Bok Choy. And the day of, I fill the apartment with aromas with a soup of Taiwanese beef noodles with slow cooking. As the noodles boil, we both drag at the kitchen counter, leaving the bowls, spoons and chili. It is the type of meal that requires that the TV be turned off, the dinner table is fixed and your significant other is close to your side. – Dillon Evans, update writer, trade
Simplest chocolate mousse
Matt Taylor-Gross / Food Styling Debbie Week
Valentine's Day is just an excuse for eating large amounts of chocolate, right? Classic chocolate mousse starts with an egg cream that can be a little capricious, but this Justin Chapple recipe is based on a much easier method: melt the chocolate in hot cream. The infallible results will impress those you serve. – Audrey Morgan, editor -in -chief
Pepper steak with red wine sauce
Cormack
As a midwesterner, I always want a good steak meal. It is indulgent and generally counts on some ingredients, making it an excellent option for a quick but impressive romantic dinner. This classic pepper steak recipe meets in just 20 minutes, which makes it as easy to prepare as to devour. – Manichanh Unonady, newsletter editor
Rose squirrel
Tim nusog / food and wine
The pink squirrel blush pink, surprisingly watered and luxuriously indulgent. What could you wish more than one cocktail from Valentine's Day? The classic dessert in a cocktail glass was born in the 1940s in Bryant's Cocktail Lounge in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where there is a popular order today. Made with only three ingredients – Cream of almond flavor nuclei, white cocoa cream and heavy cream – The result is like a Brandy Nutty Brandy Rosy, Rosy Nutty Alexander. – Rose meadow, editor of senior drinks
Muffedventure
Since we have toddlers at home, making a romantic dinner in our kitchen would involve putting baby doors to keep the children away and light the television to distract them – which is not relaxing. Instead, my husband and I like to go to a day when we are preparing lunch and we head on a snowy hike to our cabin in the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont. The meal is always the same: a muffuletta sandwich, salt and vinegar crisps, and a jameson bottle. As we dragged the two miles to the car, we laughed so much, we are ready for dinner. – Breana Killeen, Senior food editor
Baltimore style crab cakes
There is a litany of reasons that you should make crab cakes for Valentine's Day, the least of which is that they are simply delicious. (Who does not like crab cakes?) They feel luxurious and worthy of a special occasion, do not take hours to do and are more unexpected than the typical steak dinner. This version of the famous chef Andrew Zimmern was named one of the 40 best recipes of all time of Food & Wine in 2018, and it still holds several years later. The list of ingredients is very short, which will make your life easier and will also allow crab flesh to really shine. If you need another reason to try this recipe, it goes perfectly with a sparkling bottle. – Merlyn Miller, publisher, news and trends
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