Valentine's​ 💘 Day 2026

[gulfporter]

Have any plans?  Going out?  Eating at home?  Cooking, or delivery/take out?

 

We won't eat out for any holiday.  Too many over-priced meals, too crowded.  Plus one Valentine's Day we witnessed a young man ask his date to marry him at the (far too close) table next to us.......and get (politely) turned down.  I still can't get over the sadness it left in me, and that was 40 years ago!  

 

For most holidays we cook together and/or divide the courses between us. 

 

I am making a simple seafood quasi-curry; mi esposo has taken on a Herculean task, given the inadequacy of our Mexican oven....a Basque cheesecake.   Our oven has no thermostat and keeping at a steady temperature for more than a few minutes is challenging, to say the least.  

 

What are you doing, planning?

[MaryIsobel]

Like you we don't eat out any holidays but especially Valentine's Day! We're having friends over for gumbo tomorrow night and my daughters are taking me out for brunch on Sunday - so Valentine's dinner for us will no doubt be leftover gumbo! I haven't decided on a dessert for tomorrow yet but there will likely be leftovers of that as well.

[ElsieD]

We aren't planning anything.   In our younger days going out for dinner was the big thing but our interest in that faded as we grew older.

[C. sapidus]

For Valentine's Day I'm picking up Mrs. C at the airport.

 

Assuming she sends me her flight info.

[Smithy]

I have one piece of Christmas fudge left that a friend gave me. I'll probably eat it.

[Maison Rustique]

I'm going to a Galentine's dinner at a friend's home. I'm taking a quasi-shrimp cocktail thing that I talked about in the appetizer thread a while back. Hostess says it is a traditional steakhouse dinner and I know she is making steaks. I noted someone else said they are bringing creamed spinach. Not sure what else is on the menu.

[liamsaunt]

I don’t celebrate any of the Hallmark holidays, so have no special meal planned. Ideally, I will come up with something to use up some the massive amounts of potatoes, carrots, butternut squash, and cabbage I have in the house from my CSA right now.

[YvetteMT]

It happens to be my honeys birthday so we don't celebrate Valentines day, we celebrate the birthday.  And NEVER by going out!

About a month ago he asked for lobster tails "at some point". So that's on the menu, with undecided sides.  Roasted Potatoes? Mashed? Roasted sweet potato? No clue. 

[gulfporter]

Basque Cheesecake out of oven.  Mi esposo got some traditional burnt top.   Recipe suggested making day in advance. 

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by gulfporter (log)

[gulfporter]

Got darker as it cooled in pan.