Love Is in The Details
Some Very Special (and Quick!!) Valentine’s Day Ideas From Linnea Johansson
Are you planning on cooking a romantic dinner date for two? With Valentine’s Day on a Monday this year, it won’t be that easy to spend all day prepping a Valentine’s Day buffet. I asked my favorite chef and party planner, Linnea Johansson to share some of her ideas on some easy romantic recipes that you could make up the day before or in a jiffy and simply serve up on the big V-day.
Here are some very romantic cocktail and desserts ideas and recipes from Linnea.
Flowers cocktails
Why give roses when you can serve them up? In Linnea’s Frozen Roses cocktail, frozen roses adorn the cocktail and “bloom” when the ice cube melts. These adornments works as a decoration for almost any drink just pop a “rose cube” in and watch it bloom.
To make the Frozen Rose, you simply take fully blooming small garden roses and freeze them with water in an ice cube tray to “rose cubes”. (Wash well first). If garden roses are not available, ask your florist for roses that would be safe for using in a drink, and has been not been treated with chemicals. Place in for example a clear drink such as the on below and watch it “bloom” when the ice melts.
Blooming cocktail
1 oz Xante pear cognac in the bottom of a champagne glass.
Fill up with champagne or sparkling wine
Place a rose cube and let it melt while sipping
Sorbet Bellini for two
Place 1 scoop of lemon sorbet at the bottom of a large martini glass. Fill up with champagne Place candied violet leaves on the top of drink, and enjoy with 2 straws
Flowery ice pop’s a very sexy drinks on a stick, or it would be a great after dinner treat.
1 part Xante
3 parts peach juice
1 dash rose water
3 candid rose leaves per Popsicle. Freeze in Popsicle mold for 12 hours and serve.
They look amazing!!
“French Soda”
Freeze eatable flowers in ice cubes.
Serve the cubes in a water glass, top with champagne and a splash of cherry syrup for flavor and color and serve with a straw
and now for some romantic desserts
Rose Pavlova
The dessert named for a Russian ballet dancer. It is very light and tres romantic with rose flavor.
1 store bought or home-made meringue cake bottom.
2 cups of whipped cream
1/2 vanilla flavoring
2 cups of fresh red berry’s, such as currant clusters, raspberry’s, strawberry’s
3 tbls rose water
1/4 cup candid rose leaves
– place the meringue bottom on a cake plate. Whip the cream until thick. Add the vanilla flavoring.
-place the whipped cream on top of the meringue bottom.
-lightly wash the berries in a colander, dry well. Spritz the berries in rose water and add to the top of the whipped cream.
-finish with the candid rose petals.
1. In a bowl, place on layer of chocolate mousse, add 1/2 tsp of vanilla
2.Sprinkle a fleur de sel sea salt on the layer
3. Finnish with a layer of whipped cream
Serve in a large kitchen bowl with two spatulas (instead of spoons) and enjoy licking the bowl.
I’d really like to thank Linnea for giving us some wonderfully easy and ultra romantic recipes to try! To see more of Linnea’s fabulous ideas and recipes, see her website at www.linnea-johansson.com and read more about Linnea on my December 13, 2010 blog!
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