Valentine's Day
Adam Liaw’s steamed snapper with red curry butter
I love steamed fish, and pairing it with a richly flavoured butter is both wonderfully simple and extraordinarily delicious.
- < 30 mins
- Adam Liaw
Kefir and vanilla jelly with stone fruits and cherries
A dessert for the tail end of summer when stone fruits are at their sweetest.
- 2 hrs +
- Helen Goh
Ready in minutes, this ‘super-simple’ fish dish is as vibrant as an Amalfi sunset
Serve this fish dish as a romantic dinner for two or as an easy weeknight meal.
- < 30 mins
- Danielle Alvarez
Recipes from the heart: How the Good Food team cooks for the people we love
Forget the chocolates. From high-stakes date nights to restorative bowls for a friend in need, here’s what we cook when words don’t cut it.
- Good Food team
Master the marinara: Adam Liaw’s guide to making Australia’s favourite romantic pasta
Elevate date night at home with this restaurant-quality marinara – a decadent seafood classic that is surprisingly simple to perfect.
- < 30 mins
- Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw’s raspberry and mango Eton mess
If you don’t want to make your own meringue, break up six store-bought meringue nests to use as the base.
- 2 hrs +
- Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw’s summer peach cake
Peaches are the hero in this simple mix-and-pour cake, delicious served with ice-cream or cream.
- 1-2 hrs
- Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw’s prawn and avocado nicoise salad
Salad nicoise is as simple as a plate of good, tasty and healthy ingredients. We could all do with eating more of that.
- < 30 mins
- Adam Liaw
From baked goods to brunch: Valentine’s Day ideas that are not a dinner out
Spread the celebrations across the day with a champagne breakfast, a lunch at somewhere you’d never usually get into, or a well-stocked picnic at a favourite place.
- Erina Starkey
French toast with whipped honey butter
A very impressive make-ahead breakfast.
- 2 hrs +
- Julia Busuttil Nishimura