Romantic Birthday Party for Two
Celebrate your or your sweetie's birthday with a romantic dinner for two! Clear your calendar, turn on the answering machine and indulge yourselves! If both of you enjoy cooking, make the meal together. Or make it a surprise that will be long remembered.
Make It Special! Romantic Setting
- Place a small table for two (you may want to use a table other than your dining room table) next to the fireplace, by a window with a beautiful nighttime view or in some other cozy spot. Cover the table with a white tablecloth.
- Place candles on the table and around the dining room. Decorate the table with tiny foil-wrapped chocolate hearts or heart-shaped confetti (available at party-supply stores or card shops).Buy two cloth napkins and two napkin rings to use for your special dinner for two. After arranging the napkins in the rings, tuck a mini carnation or rosebud and a little baby's breath into each ring.
Romantic Frills
- Cut two heart shapes from red construction paper and two slightly larger hearts from white paper doilies. Glue the red hearts onto the white ones. Place a heart by each place setting. During dinner, take turns writing three things you love about the other person on the heart. Then exchange and read them!
- Tie ribbons around the stems of two champagne glasses. Place a raspberry or two in each glass, and fill with chilled champagne. Make a very special toast to your birthday sweetie!
Preparation Guide
The Day Before
- Chill the champagne or sparkling Catawba grape juice.
- Make Sweet Heart Cake.
The Day Of
- Prepare the Peach Salsa for Cornmeal Chicken with Peach Salsa; cover and refrigerate.
1 1/2 Hours Before Dinner
- Prepare Garlic Smashed Potatoes.
1 Hour Before Dinner
- Remove Peach Salsa from refrigerator to warm to room temperature.
20 Minutes Before Dinner
- Prepare Broccoli with Pine Nuts.
- Prepare Cornmeal Chicken (if not baking pork chops).