Valentine's Dinner Party menu ideas

[maplekitty]

This year DH and I are hosting a pretty formal Valentine's dinner party for 4 our of our friends (so 6 people total).

I'm a pretty good cook, and I like to get creative wehn it comes to dinner parties and *wow* my friends.

I thought perhaps a roast of lamb for the main course or duck, something that most people don't eat very often, but everyone would enjoy.

I've told my friends this will be a fairly fancy multiple course meal, but I'd like some ideas or suggestions for the menu. I could go with a theme, or a culturaly specific menu. Any ideas? :)

[IrisHope]

How fun!! What time are we eating?
:)

[BethIrish]

What a fun idea!!!

Do you all like Indian food? I've had a roast rack of lamb with indian spices on it and it was DIVINE! You could do a whole theme, using different Indian foods :)

I think no matter what you do, you should definitely go with mulitiple courses. Do you all like wine? Since there are 6 of you, you could pair a bottle with each course and you each would only get less then a glass.

I think if I were going to do this, my menu would look something like this:

Salad
A hot appetizer (just small bit for each person, maybe a crabcake?) or cup of soup
Lemon sorbet (palate cleanser)
Meat
Veg
Starch (I'd probably do a polenta-- you could make them heart shaped!)

Depending on how rich the rest of the meal was, I'd either do a light fruit tart, or Karen posted a really yummy sounding chocolate souffle recipe :)

[Katy]

Sarah, I don't have any ideas, but I'm leaving it up to you to move any recipes up to the Valentine's Menu stickie :p

[maplekitty]

*slaps forehead*
Uh duh....was that a gentle reminder that there's already a thread on this? Why yes Sarah, I think it is! Sorry Katy! It's ok Sarah, we'll just revoke your mod title for being such a bad influence :p

[Katy]

*slaps forehead*
Uh duh....was that a gentle reminder that there's already a thread on this? Why yes Sarah, I think it is! Sorry Katy! It's ok Sarah, we'll just revoke your mod title for being such a bad influence :pno revoking necessary, just some added responsibilities for YOU! :p

[maplekitty]

sweeping the CC shipdeck for me :p

[Cath2005]

Does anyone have any ideas for a Valentine's recipe? I would like to cook my DH a special romantic dinner for our first married V Day.

Thanks in advance!

Cath

[Katy]

you might want to take a peek up at the top of this very forum and you might find (http://www.constantchatter.com/showthread.php?t=14300) what you're looking for ;)