Valentine's Recipes
Plan your Valentine's Day party (for adults or children) or make that
romantic dinner for the one you love with these free Valentine's Day
Recipes!
Also, see our Valentine's Craft Page!
and our
Valentine's Day Party Ideas page!
Fudge Pizza
Ingredients:
12 oz. Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
4 oz. Sweet Chocolate
2 oz. White Chocolate
½ cup Nuts
½ cup Marshmallows
½ cup Crisp Rice Cereal
Melt together three types of chocolates. Add nuts, marshmallows and crisp rice cereal. Spread on pizza pan. Top with nuts, cherries and coconut. Melt an additional 2 oz. of white chocolate and dribble on top to make it look like cheese.
Hard Rock Candy
Ingredients:
Powdered Sugar
3 ¾ cup Sugar
1 ½ cup Karo Light Corn Syrup
1 cup Water
1 teaspoon Flavoring Oil and desired Food Coloring
Sprinkle 18 x 24" strip of heavy duty aluminum foil with powdered sugar. Mix first 3 ingredients in a large heavy saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Boil, without stirring until temperature reaches 310 degrees or until drops of syrup form hard and brittle threads in cold water. Remove from heat. Stir in flavoring oil and coloring. Pour onto foil. Cool; break into pieces. Store
in an airtight container.
Flavors:
Peppermint, Cinnamon, Spearmint, Lemon, Wintergreen, Anise, Clove, Orange, Sassafras, Lime, Butter, Cherry, Raspberry, Chocolate, Grape, Butter Rum.
Peanut Blossom Cookies
Ingredients:
1 ¾ cup Flour
1 teaspoon Soda
½ teaspoon Salt
½ cup Butter
½ cup Peanut Butter
½ cup Sugar
½ cup packed Brown Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 Egg
Sift together flour, soda and salt. Set aside. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and peanut butter. Gradually add in sugar, brown sugar, vanilla and egg. Blend in dry ingredients. Mix well.
Shape dough into balls and place each ball into miniature muffin tins. Bake at 350 degrees for 11 minutes or until light brown. Remove from oven and immediately place a miniature Reese's Cup in the center of each ball. Let cool before removing from tin.
Strawberry Pizza
Ingredients:
¾ cup Granulated Sugar, less 1 tablespoon
1 Egg
¼ lb. Butter or Margarine
1 1/3 cup Flour, plus 2 tablespoons
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1 quart Strawberries, sliced
2-3 Bananas, sliced
Cream together sugar, egg and butter or margarine. Add flour and baking soda. Spread on greased 12 or 13 inch pizza pan. Bake at 375 degrees for 17-20 minutes, or until light golden brown. Place strawberries and bananas decoratively on cooled crust. Top with glaze.
Glaze:
1 cup Sugar
3 tablespoons Corn Starch
2 tablespoons Karo Corn Syrup
1 cup Water
2 tablespoons Strawberry Jello
Red Food Coloring
Cook until thick and clear. Add Jello and food coloring. Cool to room temperature and pour over fruited crust, taking care to cover bananas to prevent discoloration.
Vanilla Dessert
Ingredients:
1 cup Chopped Nuts
1 cup Flour
1 cup Coconut
1/3 cup Brown Sugar
1 stick Butter
Mix together until crumbly. Put in a 9 x 13 pan and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Keep stirring to keep from burning and to keep crumbly. When done, take out ½ of crumbs for topping.
Mix:
2 pkg French Vanilla Instant Pudding
3 cups Milk
1 lg tub Cool Whip
Pour over remaining crumb mixture in pan. Top with reserved crumbs. Chill.
top
Valentine's Day Caviar Heart Kisses
1 sm Cucumber, scrubbed and trimmed
1/3 c Sour Cream
1 ts Dried dill weed
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
1 Jar red salmon caviar
Fresh dill sprigs
8 Thin slices whole-wheat bread
Butter or margarine
Slice cucumber into 1/4-inch rounds.
In a small bowl, combine sour cream, dried dill and
pepper. Place one teaspoon of the sour cream mixture on each cucumber
slice. Garnish each with about 1/2 teaspoon caviar and a dill sprig.
Cut bread slices with heart-shaped cookie cutter.
Toast and butter. Place cucumber slices in center of serving plate and surround with toast hearts.
Berry Valentine Pie
Ingredients:
1 (9 inch) prepared graham cracker
crust
1 (16 ounce) package frozen
strawberries, thawed and drained
3 (7 ounce) cans whipped cream
1 (16.5 ounce) can pitted dark sweet
cherries
1 (15 ounce) can blueberries
2 graham crackers, crushed
On bottom of pie crust, spread strawberries evenly; cover with whipped cream.
Spread cherries on whipped cream and cover cherries with whipped cream layer.
Spread blueberries on top of whipped cream and cover with last layer of
whipped cream. Sprinkle crumbled crackers on top of pie and place in the refrigerator for 45
minutes; serve.
Chocolate Surprise
Blend together:
1 1/2 cup plain flour
1 1/2 stick margarine
1 1/2 cup chopped nuts
Press into 9" x 13" pan. Bake for 15 minutes at 350 degrees. Cool
Cream together:
1 cup powdered sugar
1, 8 oz package of cream cheese
Fold in 9 oz. defrosted Cool Whip. Spread onto the cooled pastry layer.
Mix well:
1 large box of chocolate INSTANT pudding
Add 3 1/2 cups milk
Spread on top of the second layer.
Spread a 9 oz. container of defrosted Cool Whip on top of the third layer
and refrigerate.
Bacon and Smoked Oysters
Ingredients :
Appetizers, Seafood
2 cn Smoked oysters
1/4 c Light vegetable oil
1/2 lb Bacon strips
40 Round wooden toothpicks
3 tb Garlic, minced
Cut bacon strips in thirds. Wrap a bacon slice around each oyster and
place a toothpick through to hold it in place. In a medium skillet, heat
oil, and add garlic. Cook wrapped oysters in oil until bacon is crisp.
Remove from pan and drain on a paper towel to drain.
Valentine's Day Stuffed French Toast
Ingredients :
1 Loaf large diameter french bread
1/2 lb Breakfast sausage
1/2 Package bacon
1/2 c Milk
4 lg Eggs
1/4 c Sugar
1 ts Cinnamon
1 1/2 ts Vanilla
1/2 lb Boiled ham (thinly sliced)
1 Package American Cheese
In a large skillet fry the bacon and breakfast sausage, together but
separately, until done. While the meat is cooking, slice the french bread
into eight slices approximately 1 1/2" to 2" thick; then slice each slice
3/4 of the way through again. Mix the milk, eggs, sugar cinnamon and vanilla
together into a batter in a deep bowl; set aside. Take up the bacon, sausage
and ham and divide each into eight equal parts Dip each piece of bread into
the batter and submerge it so that both sides and edges are coated. Open
each piece and put in one portion of the meat, bacon, and ham along with one
slice of cheese and close the bread again. Fry the stuffed batter-coated
bread slices in a lightly oiled skillet until golden brown on the outside
and the cheese is melted on the inside. Serve two slices to a plate with
your favorite garnishes and condiments. (ie. home fries, maple syrup,
confectioner's sugar etc...)
Love Poems
I Give You My Love
I give you my love…
or the harmony you bring into
My life…
I give you my love
For the understanding of my needs
And the many smiles you have
Brought to me…
I give you my love
For the joy you bring to my
Heart
And the many ways you make me feel
With every embrace…
I give you my love
For the comfort you bring me
And the many treasured times
We have shared…
I give you my love
For the way you are my friend
As well as the many ways you
Express our love…
I give you my love
For the many ways that you've
Allowed me to be a part of
Your life…
I give you my love
---Richard W. Weber
If Love Had Wings
If love had wings,
Our love would fly high.
We'd keep going until
There was no more sky.
Because there is no earth
And no sky exists
That can limit our love-
If just wont resist.
Our love make me happy
Forever I'll sing
Of the strength of our bind-
Forever I'll sing
Of the strength of our bind-
Our love with eternal wings.
Stars
Little dots, shining bright-
We wish upon them with all our might.
They know our hopes, they know our dreams-
We reach out to them-so close they seem.
We gaze at them before we sleep,
We give them each a wish to keep.
When you're in love they burn so bright;
They chase away any fright.
Shining brightly in the skies;
Shimmering I your lover's eyes.
They know what your future has to hold;
They warm up a heart that's cold.
Following a long embrace,
Look into your true love's face.
Thry will be there, in her eyes.
The beauty there is a surprise.
Here eyes will sparkle and they will dance-
You'll know for sure you have a chance.
Confess your love, explain it well.
For the stars will have her under their spell.
The stars have granted you wish of love-
A glorious gift from the heavens above.
Gaze upon them late at night-
Specks of hope, burning bright.
Remember this story, regard it as true-
For the stars in the heavens are watching over you.
---Karisha Marie Anderson
To Someone Who Is Beautiful
It is absolutely wonderful to have
Someone in your life who is caring
And giving and gracious – some whose
Smiles are like sunshine and laughter
And whose words always seem to say
The things you most like to hear…
Because those magical people are really
Beautiful…inside.
And it is a special privilege to
Know someone whose outward appearance
Is a delight to see – someone who
Lights up a room with radiance and
Who lights up my little corner of the
World with a loveliness it has never
Known before…because special people
Like that are really beautiful…outside…
But most of all, it is one of the
World's most special blessings to
Have a person in your life who can
Add so much pleasure and such magnificence
To the days – as you have mine…
Because you're someone who is beautiful…
All over.
---Andrew Tawney
To You My Love
Be my strength,
And I will be the same for you.
Like a mirror, I will reflect
The love you so freely give.
Like the infinite circles
That ripple forth in the water
Pierced by a stone,
I will radiate the happiness
You bring to my soul.
In times of darkness
I will cling to the memories
Of our unity
And provide you with inner visions
Of this same bond to be your faith…
In times of sorrow,
I will be you comfort and
Divide your grief
By sharing it…
In time so of joy,
I will rejoice in our love
And encompass you with every
Tenderness.
Together or apart, I will
Cherish everything about you
With all my heart
Be my strength
And I will be the same for you.
---Karen Jessie
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