To celebrate the Valentine’s Day in a unique manner, make the Goddess of love reach out to your sweetheart through the tastes and aromas of everyday cooking, dished up with a twist. Serve up aphrodisiac food and make it work best by keeping it light and serving small portions; make the dining experience more exciting by keeping a luscious, ripe fruit as the centrepiece in a crystal bowl. Combinations such as mangoes and red apples, pears and lemons, peaches and strawberries work well.

BREAKFAST
Heart-shaped eggs
Use an egg form or a medium heart cookie cutter to make some fried eggs and you’re off to an ‘egg’cellent start to your Valentine’s Day celebrations

Strawberry-Banana Smoothie
Mix up a smoothie in your blender with a combination of orange juice, frozen strawberries and bananas.

LUNCH
Heart-shaped pizza
Make heart-shaped pizzas by creatively working the dough into a heart. A slight modification to a round ball of rolled dough will do the trick.

Filled Heart Sandwiches
For another great sandwich idea, spread strawberry jam on one slice of bread, then cut out a heart shape from a second slice. When you put the two slices together, you have a beautiful red heart jam sandwich.

DINNER
I Love You Pasta
Serve ‘love pasta’ (spaghetti noodles shaped into a big heart with tomato sauce in the centre) and heart-shaped garlic toast. For the garlic toast, cut heart shapes out of several pieces of white bread. Spread on a little butter mixed with some garlic powder and Parmesan cheese.