Gingerbread Cookies

Wow! i am the first one to comment!

Anyway a perfect meal would be well made indian food like fluffy Basmati rice with black dhal and some sauteed potatoes!

Hmmm, my boyfriend and I usually had a date night during college at a delicious New Orleans' style comfort food restaurant. For Christmas, my mom bought him a New Orleans cookbook and I'd love to try cooking some of our favorites- shrimp and grits, a crisp iceberg wedge with bacon (guilty pleasure) and then breaking away from the New Orleans cookbook for a chocolate mousse with raspberry sauce for dessert!

My ideal meal is butternut squash ravioli in a sage butter sauce with fresh snap peas on the side and creme brulee served with fresh berries for dessert. Also a nice bottle of Malbec to go with the meal.

My ideal meal is what my boyfriend makes every year: fillet mignon, twice baked potatoes, grilled asparagus and molten chocolate cake. Yum!

I am single this Valentine's Day, so I would make myself something that I otherwise would be too intimidated to try out! I would love to try a roasted rack of lamb (including the fancy frenching technique) and some mint sauce. And maybe, just because it's Valentine's Day, some chewy, homemade brownies.

Valentine's Day is about what you love and there is nothing that I loved having more growing up than the homemade grilled sharp cheddar and egg sandwiches that my mom would make, dipped in homemade strawberry jam, salsa or whatever was around the kitchen. And on the holiday, which we spent together many years, she would cut them into heart shapes follwed with some chocolate baked good, of course.

This is hard because I'm usually the chef. The thought of having my fiance go into the kitchen and cook something and not be a part of it is making me nervous!

My own insanity aside, my perfect meal is one we did a few Valentine's ago.. Alton Brown's ribs, slow braised in the oven. We did it together, and then hung out all day while they cooked. Ideally, I'd eat them with cornbread and some baked beans and cous cous. Because I love cous cous. Yum.

Any region's soul food would be great, but my ideal meal would have to be a mole. Spicy with a hint of chocolate sounds perfect for Valentine's Day. And after using almost every pan, utensil, and appliance I own to make it for myself, to make it for someone else must really mean you're in love.

For most of my date nights I generally make a standard massive meat dish (I actually have been making BGSK's short ribs a lot and everytime I do I think my boyfriend loves me a little more). But for this Valentine's day I was thinking of going outside my safety cooking box. A couple months ago my boyfriend and I went to an incredible dinner at Zahav, an Israeli tapas bar in Philly that got best of Philadelphia last year. We split the chef's testing menu which began with freshly made hummus severed hot and with fresh pita and ended with this incredibly ridiculous lamb shoulder that was braised for 7 days or something absurd. It was one of the best dinners that either of us have ever eaten. We spent most of the meal just saying mmmmmm.

For this Valentine's day (or the day we decide on after one of my numerous med school tests) I was planning on trying to recreate that lamb shoulder. But given that I am busy working graduate student with no possible time to braise something for 5 hours let alone a whole week, I would love love love if BGSK could help me come up with a recipe for slow-cooked lamb shoulder that can be incorporated into my very busy schedule. Otherwise I will just resort to spending all my money on a nice bottle of wine and closing my eyes and picking between my delivery menus.

Perfect meal would be roasted rack of lamb with mint sauce. A brownie sundae a la mode would finish it off nicely.

easy-spaghetti with bottarga, a big salad, very rich brownies for dessert, and lots and lots of champagne! totally romantic but not fussy at all.

My ideal Valentine's meal would be osso bucco and a side of orzo made by my loving husband.

I'm thinking fondue, a nice green salad, and some fresh berries. What could be better?

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I would have to say cocktail jumbo shrimp to start (I know, I'm a traditionalist) and then a big, yummy steak with bernaise sauce. And to finish it all off - strawberries dipped in white chocolate and ginger ice cream.

My perfect Valentine's day meal would be home-made mezzaluna stuffed with ricotta, spinach, and chicken topped with a marinara-cream sauce served with a warm spinach salad with bacon, strawberries, and a balsamic vinaigrette. For dessert-home made black and white truffles…Ina's recipe of course!

For Valentine's Day all I need is a nice champaign and take out Pad Thai, and my husband, of course!!

my perfect meal would be persian rice with boneless saffron chicken onions and tomato. Also homemade iranian bread too from a brick oven. PHOEBE I WANNA WIN!!! love, frooz

Definitely support the made-at-home valentine's dinner, but would rather not spend the whole day in the kitchen. Too eager to spend time in the snow with my valentine! How about a fruity spinach salad w/ strawberries, pine nuts, and an apple cider vinaigrette, followed by parmesan crusted salmon (easy and tasty, just need fresh salmon — preferably Alaskan- plus some butter and parmesan cheese), served with fresh string beans and a creamy polenta. Finish it off with a poached pear cooked in cranberry shrub with a sprig of mint and a spoonful of vanilla bean ice cream.
…All easy and quick to prepare, light, fruity, delicious, and likely to look harder to do than it really was.
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hmmm valenties day meal..baked macaroni & cheese,some potatoes+ chocolate truffle tart! yay delicious!

I love my new heart shaped pan!!!!! I can't wait to bake a love treat for my boyfriend and special friends! Thank you Phoebe and Cara!

these were the best gingerbread cookies i’ve ever had. thanks for sharing the recipe!