Valentines Recipes. Some people are of the view that Valentine's Day is just a gimmick to promote promiscuity, but for most others, is a day to express their feelings to the special people in your life. Since, according to the famous adage that the way to a person's heart is through his stomach, so Valentine's Day would be complete without some delicious recipes to delight your loved one.
Valentine's Day presents an opportunity to harness the creativity of the food items and present them in a sincere quixotic. Traditionally, chocolates, sweets, candy, red licorice and pink and have been associated with love and romance. Therefore, the sweet and heart-shaped chocolates become a vogue during the celebrations of Valentine's Day.The most common recipe for Valentine's Day is a heart-shaped cake with icing sugar pink. The cake is baked in a regular, but the icing on it is specially designed and decorated to symbolize the occasion. Other interesting recipes for Valentine's Day include lollipop hearts, heart shaped cookies with chocolate and chocolate cakes filled with semi-melted Hershey's kisses and hugs.
For those who prefer a home cooked meal, some of the hot and spicy recipes can be evoked especially for Valentine's Day, since spicy flavor teams up with love and passion too. Chillies, peppers and paprika can add the right amount of heat to the pallet. For this approach, Mexican cuisine, Mediterranean, and India are highly recommended. Moreover, according to traditional beliefs and folklore, some herbs and spices such as rosemary, chamomile and damiana have been connected with the idea of love and romance. Adding these herbs to the food preparation is believed to enhance the love between couples.
