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Valentine’s Day Recipe Roundup

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 Nothing says, “I love you,” like an amazing homemade dinner and a delicious dessert. This Valentine’s Day Recipe Roundup includes some of my family’s favorite meals, and best of all, desserts–berries, chocolate, and cheesecake. Oh, my! From decadent Raspberry Cheesecake Brownies to a dreamy Strawberry Delight Sheet Cake, there is a dessert for everyone. 

My family looks forward to Valentine’s Day ever since I began making a special dinner for them. I decorate the table with Valentine’s Day decor, use my Polish pottery dishes, and place treats on each plate.

Sometimes I place the treats in a goody bag or just on the plate.A dark blue Polish pottery plate with white polkadots with a valentine's M&M tube, a heart shaped package of candy with a note underneath it, and a box of valentines sour patch kids.

As seen below for one Valentine’s Day dinner, I served Orange Chicken, chocolate-covered strawberries, rice, orange slices, and fried rice.

A rectangle wooden table with a red and white checkered runner down the middle with paper hearts scattered on it with a glass vase of flowers in the middle. On top of the runner is a 9x13 Polish pottery dish full of orange chicken. A plate of chocolate strawberries are placed by the right upper corner of the 9x13 dish. A white bowl with blue polka dots filled with rice is diagonally across the chocolate covered strawberries. Diagonally across from the rice bowl is a dark blue bowl with white polka dots filled with orange slices. To the left of the rice bowl is a dinner plate, a wine glass, and napkin. Diagonally to the left of the vase of flowers is a large bowl of fried rice with a wooden spoon inserted from the left. At the end of the table on the left shows a person's arms bent and the elbows resting on the table. Across from that person is a young boy looking down at a dinner plate with treats on it.

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, celebrate this year’s season of love by making a yummy home-cooked dinner and heavenly dessert to remember. Let Cupid pierce your heart to make a meal of love. Your family will love you for it!

Tetrazzini Dinner & Sides

A peacock patterned Polish pottery dinner plate with a serving of chicken tetrazzini, broccoli, and a roll.The Best Chicken Tetrazzini Recipe
A piece of Focaccia bread held above the Focaccia bread loaf sitting on a wire rack.Focaccia Bread Recipe
A serving of Sarah's Salad in a bowl with a fork sitting on the rim on the left. The bowl is sitting on a cloth yellow and white dotted napkin. The text of the title is at the top and underneath the title are the words "One bite and you'll be hooked."Sarah’s Salad

My Favorite Enchiladas

Creamy-Cilantro-Verde-EnchiladasCreamy Cilantro Verde Enchiladas
A white scalloped bowl holding Instant Pot black beans with cilantro on topInstant Pot Black Beans
Chipotle cilantro lime rice in a metal pot with a few cilantro leaves on the top in the middle with a metal spoon partially sticking out of the rice.Copycat Chipotle Cilantro Lime Rice
A glass bowl filled to the top with Pico de Gallo with the handle of a spoon sticking out of it.Copycat Chipotle Pico de Gallo

Italian--the Food of Love

A white 9x13 oval baking dish filled with manicotti topped with red marinara sauce down the middle with mozzarella cheese and parsley on top sitting on a hot pad.Amazing Manicotti Recipe
Baked garlic parmesan breadsticks on a large baking sheet with a silicone mat.The Best Garlic Parmesan Breadsticks
Sautéed zucchini and yellow squash with garlic and parmesan. The text Sautéed Zucchini with Garlic and Parmesan is overlayed on the photo in the middle.Sauteed Zucchini and Yellow Squash with Garlic and Parmesan

For the Seafood Lovers

Baked-Butter-Garlic-ShrimpBaked Butter Garlic Shrimp
Bowl with Angel Hair Pasta topped with toasted garlic and grate parmesan cheese. Lemon and block of Parmesan in the back groundAngel Hair Pasta with Garlic and Parmesan
Asian style green beans in a white rimmed peacock patterned Polish pottery dish. A pair of wooden tongs are inserted into the dish on the left side.The Best Asian Style Green Beans

Desserts--Let's start with Cake

a piece of strawberry delight cake with a bite taken out of it stacked on three white plates with a fork in the backgroudStrawberry Delight Sheet Cake
A piece of flourless fallen chocolate cake on a stack of three white plates topped with strawberries, whipped cream and chocolate sauce and a dusting of powdered sugar.Flourless Fallen Chocolate Cake
Easy-strawberry-short-cake-with-fresh-whipped-toppingEasy Strawberry Shortcake Recipe
white plate with a slice of chocolate dessert that has berry glazed drizzled over it. It is sitting on a grey table clothElinor’s Amazing Chocolate Dessert

Cheesecake

Amazing Strawberry Cheesecake Puff pastry tartAmazing Strawberry Cheesecake Pastry Bites
No-Bake-Cherry-Cheesecake-2No-Bake Cherry Cheesecake {9×13 size}
A mini cherry cheesecake on top of three small plates with two forks on the left of the plate. Faded in the upper background are more little cheesecakes on a large plate.Mini Cherry Cheesecakes
Easy-Cheesecake-Squares-with-berry-Sauce-1Easy Cheesecake Squares with Berry Sauce

Brownies & Cookies

A raspberry cheesecake brownie on a small white plate with a metal fork inserted downward into a corner of the brownie. In the upper left is a fork head a part of another small plate.Raspberry Cheesecake Brownies
Heart-shaped sugar cookies frosted and decorated sitting on a black wire cooling rack.Easy Cut-Out Sugar Cookie Recipe
A small white plate with two stacked brownies. The top brownie is titled on the bottom brownie with a bite taken out of it. In the background are two fork heads stacked on each other sitting on a kitchen towel and the corner of a glass dish of brownies.Best Homemade Brownies Recipe
A white plate with a stack of three sugar cookie bars stacked on top of each other with a bite out of a corner of the top bar. Faded in the background are more cut frosted sugar cookie bars. Overlaid at the bottom is the text "reallifedinner.com"Swig Sugar Cookie Bars Recipe

Candy

An old-fashioned cherry mash chocolate bit in half held between a thumb and point finger. Faded in the background are more cherry mash chocolates.Old Fashioned Cherry Mash Chocolates
Peanut-Butter-Balls-1Peanut Butter Balls with Coconut and Rice Krispies
stack of small white plates with pieces of fudge with fudge in the back groundHershey Bar Fudge
Easy-Choc-Cream-Cheese-Truffles2Easy Chocolate Cream Cheese Truffles

And More Desserts Perfect for Valentine's Day

Strawberry Nutella Puff Pastry Dessert with two whole strawberries on opposite diagonal ends, all sitting on an oval dark blue Polish Pottery plate with a white hearts patternStrawberry Nutella Puff Pastry Dessert
A serving of Rice Krispie Ice Cream Cake topped with berry glaze and Reddi-wip sitting on a white dessert plate with a fork on the left side. Two more pieces of dessert are in the upper background on small plates.Rice Krispie Ice Cream Dessert
Strawberries mixed in with danish dessert in a 1 quart stainless steel sauce pan. there is a spoon taking a scoop out.Homemade Danish Dessert
Several crepes stacked on a white and dark blue peacock patterned Polish pottery plate.Easy Crepe Recipe

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