Ah, pink. The color of flowers, the flush of first love, and perfectly cooked medium-rare beef…as well as several other foods that can lead to romantic overtures. Here, a little inspiration for your Valentine’s repast.

Cosmopolitan
: Isobel Wield 1/18 If ever a drink symbolized an era, the bright pink, citric Cosmopolitan SCREAMS the 1990s on into the present.
Recipe Tuscan Style Roasted Leg of Lamb
: Eric Wolfinger 2/18 Made in traditional Italian fashion with a garlic, rosemary, lemon, and olive oil marinade and then roasted until perfectly tender. Perfect for easy, elegant holiday entertaining.
Recipe Salmon Banh Mi
: Kimberley Hasselbrink 3/18 Why make banh mi at home? Uh, why not? Besides, you'll never find this swanky salmon rendition anywhere else.
Recipe Grilled Lamb Chops
: Christopher Hirsheimer 4/18 After grilling up these lovely little lamb lollies, we finally understand why so many folks use "lamb chop" as a term of endearment.
Recipe Homemade Pop Tarts
: Eric Wolfinger 5/18 Though we dearly loved Pop Tarts as kids, even then we thought the packaged pastries ought to be better. Flakier. Fruitier. Fresher. Just like these. And they're quite simple to pull off.
Recipe Beet Hummus
: Karen Mordechai 6/18 Beet hummus. Extraordinary to look at. Extraordinary to taste. Extraordinarily healthful. And super extraordinarily simple to toss together.
Recipe Raspberry Streusel Coffee Cake
: Izy Hossack 7/18 Not just for breakfast, this raspberry streusel coffee cake is gonna knock your socks off. Buttery and almond-y and just all around lovely.
Recipe Beef Wellington
: dar1930 8/18 A favorite holiday dish, beef Wellington is beef fillet is slathered with pate, covered in a dice of mushrooms, wrapped in puff pastry, and baked.
Recipe Seared Tuna with Sweet and Sour Sauce
: Ditte Isager 9/18 This is not the insipid, gloppy, cloying sauce you're using to getting takeout. This is, quite simply, sweet and sour and lovely.
Recipe Strawberry Buttermilk Ice Cream
: Yuki Sugiura 10/18 A dreamy, creamy, pretty-in-pink dessert that casts everyone's favorite berry in a starring role.
Recipe Seared Duck Breast
: Gentl & Hyers 11/18 An elegant and easy riff on steak au poivre that's made with duck breast rubbed with garlic and peppercorns and cooked to a magnificently rosy medium-rare.
Recipe Homemade Sno Balls
: Robert Olding 12/18 Fashioned from chocolate cake, filled and frosted with meringue, and festooned in a feathery pink coconut boa, these are the real deal.
Recipe Pink Beer
: Davide Luciano 13/18 Yes, pink beer. It's a sweet party punch that's shamelessly simple. If you're familiar with the shandy, then you already have a sense of what it's like. It may come as no surprise that pink beer drinkers have more fun.
Recipe Red Wine Cherry Cheesecake Bars
: Sarah Kieffer 14/18 Like a slice of cheesecake smothered with the best, most boozy cherry sauce ever. Your fave diner dessert gone to finishing school.
Recipe Crystallized Flowers
: Sue Stubbs 15/18 Because mom loves flowers, sweets, and beautifiul things. Can you just imagine these delicate little lovelies strewn across her fave cake?!
Recipe Mini-Muffin Financiers
: Marcus Nilsson 16/18 Don't let these delicate, diminutive cakes with the froufrou French name fool you. They're a cinch to toss in the oven--and even easier to toss in the mouth.
Recipe Pink Sbagliato
: Joann Pai 17/18 A stunning if subtly pink cross of all the best characteristics of a negroni and a Champagne cocktail. Cin cin!
Recipe Rosé Sangria
: Kimberley Hasselbrink 18/18 This swanky sangria relies on a pretty pink rosé and some seriously stunning summer fruits for its sassy and savvy look and taste.
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