Most Romantic Valentine's Dinner?
If I had to elect one Valentine's Dinner as Most Fab - it would be the year I prepared beautiful Filets Mignon with port sauce and mushrooms, potato gratin for the side. Also a raspberry marzipan cake for dessert. Naturally, champagne was served.
Memorable Love-Day Feasts? Either prepared or served at restaurants. Dessert-Only courses may certainly apply ;)
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4 Comments:
Funny that no one has answered this yet--maybe all Serious Eaters are love-scorned!
I think my most romantic V-Day dinner was a few years ago...my boyfriend at the time and I had only been dating a few weeks (it was my freshman year in college, he was a senior..oh man, romantic older men!) and he made chicken parm (I still ate meat), roasted veggies and bread with pesto. It was delicious and it was the first time in my life a guy had ever made a meal for me. Even though we're not together anymore, I still remember it fondly :)
emes1 at 11:24PM on 02/06/08
Oh, definitely last year's. The bf, who is not much of a cook and never ever makes dinner for us because, well, that's what I do, sent me out of my apartment for many hours - which was fine, because I had a paper to write. I was told to be gone by 4, and I was allowed to come back at 8. When I got home, the place had been cleaned up, there were candles everywhere, and he had made me a dinner of grilled romaine hearts with a dressing of balsamic shaved ice and shaved parmesan (recipe courtesy of Alton Brown), rigatoni alla siciliana (which is one of my favorite things ever), and raspberry sorbet (purchased, but whatever). There was plenty of champagne and a really good zinfandel that he had remembered my mentioning a few weeks earlier.
It wasn't a really complicated or fancy meal, but it was just the sweetest thing and I absolutely loved it. Now that I think about it, that was the first time a guy had made dinner for me. Now I'm getting all teary-eyed!
charm city cupcake at 1:27AM on 02/07/08
My husband will be away on business till the next day. All I know is he wants lasagne. When doesn't he. Chiff raspeberry marzipan cake, do tell.
JerzeeTomato at 5:15AM on 02/07/08
Jerz - I think I springboarded off a recipe from The Cake Bible but found this on Epicurious.com. It sounds a lot like the cake I made. My Cake Bible is in storage with the rest of my life! :(
chiff0nade at 11:44AM on 02/07/08