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Valentine’s Day

This recipe collection covers all of my favorite Valentine’s Day recipes including a delicious pan-seared duck breast recipe and a complete Valentine’s Day menu including dessert!

A full pan of butternut squash lasagna.

Roasted Butternut Squash Lasagna

A skillet filled with crispy chicken thighs and preserved lemon.

Crispy Chicken Thighs with Preserved Lemon

This basic recipe for Grand Marnier chocolate truffles can be adapted to satisfy all likings: toasted coconut, chopped nuts or confectioners' sugar can replace the cocoa powder, as can any type of alcohol replace the Grand Marnier. Personally I find the classic cocoa-covered truffles to be the most satisfying. Paired with some fresh strawberries these bittersweet chocolate truffles are a truly delectable, if clichéd, Valentine’s Day treat. // alexandracooks.com

Grand Marnier Chocolate Truffles

Homemade Fluff, Bruléed or Not

An up close photo of cut brownies on a board.

Best-Ever Fudgy (Shiny-Topped!) Homemade Brownies

A pile of homemade oven fries.

Crispy, Homemade Oven-Baked French Fries

Shortbread in pink Ted Lasso biscuit box.

Simple, Classic Shortbread + A Ted Lasso Biscuit Box for Gifting

Heavy cream, sugar, vanilla bean, egg yolks — it would have been a serious let down if these pots de creme hadn't been anything but spectacular, which they were, tasting like untorched crème brulée, but better, with the smoothest, most velvety texture, perfectly sweet, deeply satisfying in every which way. // alexandracooks.com

Vanilla Bean Pots de Crème

An overhead shot of jars filled with chocolate mousse and topped with chocolate shavings.

Julia Child’s Chocolate Mousse

A bowl of homemade vegan chocolate mousse made with whipped aquafaba.

Vegan Chocolate Mousse (Aquafaba + Almond milk)

A sliced loaf of lemon semolina cake.

Lemon-Semolina Almond Cake

This chocolate-espresso icebox cake takes all of 20 minutes to throw together, will receive rave reviews from your guests, and you will find too irresistible, impossible, in fact, not to sneak a little spoonful of every time you open the fridge. // alexandracooks.com

Chocolate-Espresso Icebox Cake

Swedish Snack Bread

skirt steak

Skirt or Flap Steak with Shallots

A bowl of farro risotto with butternut squash and kale.

Farro Risotto with Squash and Kale

Bowls of butternut squash and cider soup aside herbed flatbreads.

Butternut Squash and Apple Cider Soup

This chicken with preserved lemons and green olives, I can assure you, is plenty flavorful and colorful, too: the various spices in the ras-el-hanout, most likely the turmeric and paprika, imbue the dish with an inviting and appetizing yellow hue throughout. // alexandracooks.com

Chicken with Preserved Lemons & Green Olives

A plate of pan-seared Duck breasts with port wine sauce and roasted grapes.

Perfect Pan-Seared Duck Breasts with Port Wine Sauce

Mandel Bread with Marzipan and Sea Salt, Two Ways

Mandel Bread with Marzipan & Sea Salt

Cinnamon pull-apart bread on a board.

Cinnamon and Sugar Pull-Apart Bread

If you're looking for something to make for Valentine's Day, this bucatini carbonara couldn't be simpler to throw together: cook bacon, reserve the fat, use the fat to cook leeks; boil pasta, toss with eggs, fresh lemon juice, grated parmesan, and a little bit of pasta cooking liquid. Toss it all together, add some fresh parsley, and serve with more parmesan and lots of pepper. That's it! // alexandracooks.com

Valentine’s Day Menu: Bucatini Carbonara with Leeks & Lemon | Arugula & Endive Salad | Double Chocolate Cake

A stack of one-bowl buttermilk pancakes.

The BEST One-Bowl Buttermilk Pancakes

Double chocolate espresso cookies on a plate.

Double Chocolate Espresso Cookies

Jean-Georges Chocolate Tart

A plate of eggplant meatballs aside bread and ricottta.

Lemony herby chickpea salad in a large bowl.

A bowl of roasted butternut squash soup topped with croutons and fried sage.

A bowl over overnight chia oats and berries.

A bean salad in a serving bowl.

A jar of Greek salad dressing on a countertop.

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