Want your valentines to be homemade? Well, you could break out the red construction paper and doilies, OR you could whip up one of these delicious dishes. Their red (and sometimes pink) colors make them a shoo-in for the most romantic meal of the year.
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RecipeRed-Wine Poached Pears with Chocolate Sauce
Poaching pears in red wine gives them a gorgeous ruby hue. They're made all the more luxurious by a dark chocolate ganache sauce. -
RecipeVodka-Steamed Lobsters with Tomato-Butter Sauce
Steaming the lobsters with vodka, sugar, and salt gives the meat a subtle sweetness. The flavorful cooking liquid then becomes the base for a buttery dipping sauce. -
RecipeBeet, Goat Cheese, and Apple Gratin
This striking deep pink-purple dish is sweet from beets and apples, which contrast with earthy goat cheese, anise-flavored tarragon, and rich hazelnuts. -
RecipeSparkling Pomegranate Cocktail
Ruby-red pomegranate juice and sparkling wine: a simple combo with stunning results. -
RecipePhyllo Chips with Strawberry Dip and Vanilla Ice Cream
This easy and sweet twist on chips and salsa, with a rosy-red strawberry dip, makes a playful ending to a Valentine's Day dinner.
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RecipeSear-Roasted Halibut with Blood-Orange Salsa
Nothing brightens up a winter meal like citrus. In this dish, the sear-roasting method allows the halibut to form that gorgeous crust while keeping the inside moist, and since the fish's flavor is mild, it's the perfect vehicle for the blood orange salsa that's bursting with sweet, citrusy flavor.
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RecipeBeet Risotto-Style Pasta
Cooking pasta and diced beets risotto-style turns the pasta deep red, contrasted by a shower of snowy goat cheese to finish. -
RecipeRaspberry Fool
Puréed and strained raspberries give this luxurious whipped dessert a gorgeous, bright pink color and a lovely tanginess to balance the sweet yogurt-cream base. -
RecipeLamb Chops with Pomegranate-Red Wine Sauce
Though the lamb itself is deeply flavorful, the sweet-tart sauce is the real reason you won't want this meal to end. The sauce cooks in just minutes and its components: pomegranate juice, wine, broth, balsamic vinegar, thyme, and honey, marry beautifully to dress up otherwise simple chops.
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RecipeRed Velvet Cake
Red velvet cake is a dessert that everyone oohs and aahs over—it’s tall, dark, and handsome, with deep crimson cake layers and a thick coating of cream cheese frosting above, around, and between. -
RecipeRuby Salad with Crumbled Feta
Beets, shredded red cabbage and red onions lend their crimson color to this beautiful salad. -
RecipeOrange-Brown Butter Tart
Who says diamonds are a girl's best friend? Use blood oranges and sweet pink Cara Cara oranges to top this tart for a jewel-like presentation. -
RecipeSalmon with Roasted Beets
This lovely, light preparation is marked by the bright, sweet acidity of Meyer lemon and the earthy note of beets. You can use candy-striped chioggia beets (which roast up bright red) or regular deep-red ones. -
RecipeRed Berry Ice Cream Bombe
Dress up store-bought ice cream and sorbet with this easy four-ingredient dessert: just layer raspberry sorbet with strawberry and vanilla ice creams, and top with a simple strawberry sauce. -
RecipeRed Peanut Mole with Chicken
Most moles contain dozens of ingredients combined in a daunting number of steps, but this easy version cooks in under an hour from a manageable number of ingredients and will still make you say wow. You can also make the sauce a day ahead, and it will only taste better.
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RecipeLa Pomme Rouge
Two French classics—Calvados (French apple brandy) and Lillet Rouge (an apéritif wine)—are shaken over ice with lemon and topped with chilled sparkling wine, for an easy, nuanced cocktail that's extra elegant if you have some vintage coupe glasses lying around. -
RecipeRoasted Beet Gnocchi with Brown Butter-Sage Sauce
These gnocchi have a subtle beet flavor that’s a little earthy and a little sweet. The simple brown butter sage sauce shows off the gnocchi’s vibrant hue.
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RecipeSticky Pomegranate Drumsticks
甜蜜的,对这些别致的扑鼻,微辣的釉ken drumsticks makes for messy but delicious eating. Serve with plenty of napkins.
