Cooking for Valentines Day. Any ideas?

[RDE]

Can anyone suggest a good meal for Valentines Day? I get a bit fed up of restaurants cramming as many people in as possible and having sittings, so thought i'd do it myself this year. Only problem is I can't think of a suitably romantic dish.

Any help greatly appreciated, but nothing excessively complex please - i'm not Heston Blumenthal but i'm bright enough to be able to handle most things I think.

Cheers

[dougc]

What's the other halfs favourite food? Extra brownie points available if you remember and cook it for her.

[Cotty]

Cant beat a nice roast. Leg of lamb, roast potatoes, bit of veg and lashings of mint sauce.

Ill let somone else suggest the wine

[coolcatmaz]

cook her favourite meal, or failing that a nice takewaway if your cooking isn't too great, light some candles, a bottle or two of nice wine, and don't forget pudding, us girls love our desserts.

I wouldn't opt for anything too heavy though, may spoil the chances of any after dinner activities if you catch my drift

[neilsfishing]

Mushroom Rissoto with Parmasan shavings good wine
Strawberrys (Merangues optional) Champagne it worked for Julie Roberts & Richard Gear (pritty woman)

Edited by neilsfishing on Thursday 31st January 22:49

[RDE]

thegavster said:

Your ****?

Very clever Gavster - go to the top of the class

Edited by Stig on Thursday 31st January 16:17

Nice.

neilsfishing said:

Mushroom Rissoto with Parmasan shavings good wine
Strawberrys (Merangues optional) Champagne it worked for Julie Roberts & Richard Gear (pritty woman)

Edited by neilsfishing on Thursday 31st January 22:49

Sounds good, and I make decent risotto usually (usually by increasing the cheese ratio). Might go for the roast though - a bit more effort involved. If she has expressed a favourite food, I haven't picked up on it very well. I could always ask...

Thanks all

[Don]

dougc said:

What's the other halfs favourite food? Extra brownie points available if you remember and cook it for her.

ed if I'm cooking on Valentine's. She can bloody do it. Light ME a sodding candle, open MY favourite wine.

And I'll act all hurt if she doesn't get me a card.

Pussies the lot of you.


Ohhhh. That was wonderfully cathartic.

[dougc]

Don said:

dougc said:

What's the other halfs favourite food? Extra brownie points available if you remember and cook it for her.

ed if I'm cooking on Valentine's. She can bloody do it. Light ME a sodding candle, open MY favourite wine.

And I'll act all hurt if she doesn't get me a card.

Pussies the lot of you.


Ohhhh. That was wonderfully cathartic.

Couldn't agree more. Just trying to help a fellow bloke who is feeling the pressure of being in a relationship on Feb 14th! Personally, I'll be in the pub.

[RDE]

Don said:

dougc said:

What's the other halfs favourite food? Extra brownie points available if you remember and cook it for her.

ed if I'm cooking on Valentine's. She can bloody do it. Light ME a sodding candle, open MY favourite wine.

And I'll act all hurt if she doesn't get me a card.

Pussies the lot of you.


Ohhhh. That was wonderfully cathartic.

Well, I would agree with you if she wasn't visiting my place (only see each other every 3 weeks or so). Just seems the polite thing to do to cook for your guests

[Drewtastic]

A nice simple home made thai fish cakes, with rocket leaves, a drizzle of olive oil and balsamic vinegar and a lovely chilled bottle of your favorite white. You need to eat reasonably light to celebrate later in the evening

[Drewtastic]

I am going with some sea food. Great for sharing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/moulesm...