Valentine's Day is the perfect night to serve a dinner just for the two of you. If both of you enjoy cooking, make the meal together. You have three cooking-for-two entrée choices—steak, pork chops or chicken. Try this meal for a first anniversary or date night, too. Clear your calendar, turn off the phone and indulge yourselves!
Make it Special!
- 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. Put a white or cream lace tablecloth on the table.
- Place scented candles on the table and around the room. Decorate the table with tiny foil-wrapped chocolate hearts or valentine-theme confetti (available at party supply stores or card shops).
- Buy two red or pink 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.
- 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 a heart. Then exchange and read them!
- Tie ribbons around the stem of two champagne glasses. Place a raspberry or two in each glass, and fill with chilled champagne. Make a very special toast to the one you love!
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