Meal Ideas

Breakfast

It’s always a good romantic start to the day to wake up well before your loved one rises and make them breakfast in bed. A great breakfast snack is muffins, these can be presented in red decorative wrappers or boxes with a breakfast smoothie and it’s a nice light meal. Conversely (if you’re feeling adventurous) you can make smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels, washed down with a hot cup of tea/coffee or strawberry fizz.

Lunch

Lunch need not be heavy, a great idea would be to go for a champagne lunch – consisting of strawberries, cream and of course the champagne itself.

Dinner

There are a multitude of recipes you could experiment with for a romantic meal at home, depending on how adventurous you are in the kitchen. One idea would be to have smoked salmon potato cake, with whipped cream and oscietra caviar as a starter. This can then be followed up with Spanish chicken and chocolate and prune pudding with coffee and white bean ice cream.

Alternatively you can try a roasted vine and tomato and spinach salad for starters. Follow this up with a pot roasted lemon chicken served with braised red cabbage, blanched green beans and mashed potatoes. To round it off indulge in panna cotta with stewed rhubarb as dessert. For vegetarians Grilled Goat's Cheese with a Salad of Fresh Peas, Asparagus and Broad Beans is good for starters and this can be followed up with Chestnut Bourgignon Pie served with Kibbe and Red Cabbage with Red Onions and Almonds. And a fitting dessert would be Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Strawberry Sorbet, Italian Style served with Chocolate Centred Valentine Biscuits.