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Classic Valentines Day Meal

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The first meal for the week is a classic menu.

A rough time frame has been included to help it easier to plan and prepare, just to help the special night or day go without a hitch!

Starter
Starting with a true classic starter – Smoked Salmon Pate. A smooth, creamy dish, with plenty of flavour and a treat for the eyes. A simple dish, but widely loved – and quite quick to make at just forty minutes including time to chill!

If you’re not a fan of Fish Pate for a starter, try creating the Walnut, Egg and Cheese Pate. A different taste, so it may be worth preparing some before the big day, and making sure you like it. This pate can also be used as a filling for Stuffed Tomatoes, Peppers or Mushrooms as well! Including time taken to chill, you’re looking at about forty-five to fifty minutes.

Main Course
A true classic dish – Crispy Pork Belly. Although this meal is a Filipino dish, the range of flavours in it give the traditionally popular dinner a great twist. Serve it with some freshly cooked seasonal Vegetables – Roast Potatoes, Parsnips, Carrots and a lovely thick Gravy.

This dish takes around one and a half to two hours to cook – not counting the time used to freeze the meat.

Dessert
White Chocolate Pots – A simply divine White Chocolate and Rum Mousse, this dessert can alternatively be served with Orange Zest or Dark Chocolate to mix the flavours up.

This dish takes around three or four hours to prepare, once the time to chill has been counted!

Valentines Day Menus

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Being able to cook for you other half is always a good thing to be able to do – it’s cheaper than eating out, the both of you can get involved if wanted and you can have much more fun too!

Valentines Day

If you’re trying to impress a new beau, or cooking a classic dinner for an old flame then look no further; these meal ideas will be a sure-fire hit, regardless of your ideal outcome!

For the rest of this week, there’s going to be a few different posts going up on different menus – based around the time taken to cook (i.e., last minute ‘oops I forgot’ menu or big and extravagant), the different ingredients and level of cooking skill required, so hopefully there’ll be something for everyone.

Some of the menus will have a slightly modern twist – not everything has to be candles and soft music after all! For best results, practice the dishes before you serve it, so that you can make sure that there are no hidden surprises, and that you’ll like the tastes and textures that are in the meal. And, of course, so that you can seem much more confident whilst explaining how you lightly glazed the vegetables before roasting them, or how you marinated the meat for two or three hours to improve the flavours, textures and aromas in the dish.

Photo Courtesy of: jonathanb1989