Valentines Dinner At Home
❤️💖 If you’re spending Valentine’s Dinner At Home, these savory sides, restaurant-worthy entrees, and decadent desserts are 20 recipes that are sure to IMPRESS! Enjoy it all from the peace and quiet of your own home without the crowds and chaos, and for a fraction of the price of going out! 💵
Valentine’s Dinner At-Home Appetizers and Sides
Cheesy Baked Crab Dip 🦀🧀 is a luxe, rich appetizer that’s perfect for holiday parties, Christmas and New Year’s entertaining, or date night in! It’s easy, ready in 30 minutes, and sure to impress! Various crab meat options are provided to make this easy dip accessible for everyone.
Coconut Shrimp with Chili-Orange Dipping Sauce 🍤🍊 Is a better-than-the-restaurant copycat recipe! It’s fast, easy, and guaranteed to trump restaurant and take-out versions! Perfectly crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside, and full of coconut flavor without being heavy or greasy and the dipping sauce it tops!
🧀🧄🍞 Puff Pastry Cheesy Garlic Bread is so EASY, ready in 25 minutes, extra cheesy, buttery, and simply irresistible! Tender flaky puff pastry layers are the perfect base for a garlic butter mixture that’s topped with mozzarella and Parmesan cheese and baked to golden perfection! Whether you make this as an appetizer for game days, holiday entertaining, or a quick weeknight dinner side dish, everyone LOVES this easy garlic bread!
Easy Spanish Cheese and Charcuterie Board 🧀 Learn my TIPS and tricks to create the PERFECT cheese board! From prosciutto to manchego and everything in between, this Spanish appetizer board has ALL the goodies! It’ll be a major hit and you can get as creative as you’d like.
Crab Macaroni and Cheese 🦀🧀 with big pieces of juicy crab and tender pasta in a creamy cheese sauce, and topped with crispy breadcrumbs is what dreams are made of! This homemade mac and cheese is an elevated side dish that’s worthy of being on your holiday table – or make it as the main dish! You won’t want to go back to other mac & cheese after trying this one!
Valentines Date-Night In Dinners
Juicy Steak Bites 🥩 are tossed in the most flavorful garlic butter sauce that I kicked up a notch with red pepper flakes, paprika, Dijon, fresh herbs and more. It’s also known as cowboy butter and SO flavorful! This restaurant-quality and protein-packed steak dinner recipe is easy, ready in 15 minutes, and perfect for busy weeknights, entertaining, or date night at home!
Indulge your taste buds with this elegant yet simple Italian-inspired Shrimp Scampi Pasta 🍝🍤 recipe! Made with succulent shrimp, zesty lemon, savory parmesan cheese, and al dente cooked pasta, this EASY restaurant-worthy recipe is ready in 15 minutes and is PERFECT when you want to impress your guests but don’t want to spend all day cooking!
Meatless Baked Ziti with Cheese 🧀 is an EASY baked ziti recipe that can be assembled up to two days in advance and bake it off when you’re ready! Al dente ziti pasta is coated in a creamy three cheese sauce and then baked until golden brown and bubbling. Serve with a side salad, steamed vegetables, or garlic bread for a full meal!
🍅🧀🌿 Easy Slow Cooker Tuscan Chicken features tender chicken that slow cooks in a creamy, Tuscan-inspired sauce featuring sun-dried tomatoes, spinach, and Parmesan! Slow cooking the chicken makes it melt-in-your-mouth wonderful and it’s all made in your Crockpot – no stovetop searing or transferring is necessary. Serve with pasta for a stress-free dinner that the whole family will love!
Sheet Pan Lemon Garlic Butter Salmon 🍣 Juicy salmon at home in 30 minutes that’s EASY and tastes BETTER than from a restaurant! The butter is infused with lemon and garlic and adds so much FLAVOR!
Creamy Dijon Chicken Skillet —Tender, juicy chicken bathed in a divine cream sauce made with garlic, cream, Dijon mustard, and a splash of wine for extra flavor!! This restaurant-quality EASY stovetop chicken is ready in 20 minutes and will be a family FAVORITE!
10-Minute Easy Shrimp Scampi 🍤 If you thought shrimp scampi was just a dish to order out at a fancier restaurant, think again. You can make mouth-watering shrimp scampi at home in less than 10 minutes!
Pasta with Vodka Sauce 🍝🍅🧀 Make an Italian restaurant-worthy pasta dish EASILY at home in 30 minutes! Pasta is tossed in a tomato-forward sauce that includes red pepper flakes, onions, garlic, spinach, heavy cream for RICHNESS, and of course, vodka! A family FAVORITE comfort food classic recipe that’s doable for busy weeknights, for entertaining, or for date night at home!
🧡💚 Creamy Garlic Butter Tuscan Salmon is an EASY one-skillet dish that results in the most tender and juicy salmon that’s bathed in a rich and creamy garlic butter sauce! Parmesan cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, and baby spinach add extra flavor and texture to this 30-minute recipe that everyone LOVES! Learn how to make restaurant-worthy salmon that’s fast enough for a weeknight dinner but elevated enough to serve to company!
Valentines Desserts Worth Splurging On
The Best Homemade Chocolate Ganache Cake 🍫🤎🎉 is truly is the BEST homemade chocolate cake, EVER! Moist, rich, just one bowl, and no mixer required, for this cake that has 515+ 5-star reviews spanning back to 2010 when I first published the recipe! ⭐️ The cake is topped with a smooth chocolate ganache frosting for the ultimate in decadence! A scratch chocolate cake that requires just 10 minutes of hands-on prep is always a great thing!
Soft Cherry Bread with Cherry-Almond Glaze 🍒🩷 is my grandma’s recipe and has been very popular on my site the last 15 years! It’s an EASY quick bread recipe that’s perfect for Valentine’s Day, Easter, or Mother’s Day! Because you can never have too much pink!
Cherry Cream Pie 🍒 is an old-fashioned pie with homemade scratch crust topped with NO-BAKE layers of sweetened cream cheese along with juicy cherry pie filling!! If you like cherry pie, you’re going to LOVE this amped up version!!
Classic Crème Brûlée Recipe 🍮 This is an easy crème brûlée that everyone can make, doesn’t require a candy thermometer or stand mixer, and isn’t doctored up with specialty flavorings. If you’ve never made creme brûlée because you’ve been intimidated, I’m helping you get past all that with this approachable recipe!
Stuffed Cherry Pie Cookies – 🍒🩷❤️ Soft and chewy buttery cookies stuffed with cherry preserves are QUICK and EASY to make and the perfect Valentine’s Day dessert! I like to add a simple glaze so that I can add sprinkles for a more festive look! You can easily change the colors of the sprinkles and the flavor of jam inside making these cookies not only delicious but very versatile for other holidays.
Easy Red Velvet Poke Cake — ❤️🙌 If you like red velvet, you’re going to LOVE this EASY red velvet cake recipe! Super soft, moist, topped with luscious cream cheese frosting and chocolate chips! Perfect for holidays and special events and starts with cake mix to save you TIME and ENERGY!
