Air fryer stuffed mushrooms
These savory mushroom bitesare some of my favorite things on planet Earth.
Stuffed shishito peppers
The best way to make vegetables celebration-worthy is to stuff them with cheese.
Instead,buy a frozen pieand dress it up with a few fancy ingredients yourself.
Foolproof cacio e pepe
Lets move to the pasta course.
Carbs are, and always have been, the key to feeling satisfied on a budget.
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Serve this delightful dish with a glass of wine and some candles for a simple and sweet presentation.
Instead of making your own gnocchi, use the soft, shelf stable packaged kind at the store.
Browned butter and tomato pasta
Heres anotherromantic pastadish that delivers on many fronts.
Simply boil your favorite pasta shape according to the packages directions.
Brown the butter in a pan and mix in a helping of tomato paste.
The pasta goes into the sauce and picks up all of those deeply concentrated flavors.
Stir these gems into your favorite pasta sauce and heap it onto a plate with a hunk of bread.
Its a three-ingredient recipe youll come back to time and again.
And once roasted, it is certainly more of a showstopper than egg salad.
Serve it with some roasted fingerling potatoes or the stuffed mushrooms from above.
Just thaw and cook a handful of shrimp per person.
Toss them in a simple mayonnaise dressing and tuck them into top-split buns with a couple chives.
To ensure your bird has a lovely bronzed coat, and succulent meatcoat the entire thingin mayonnaise.
Then prove to your Valentine that youre a true grown up and properlycarve that roast chickento serve.
Its fun, its decadent, its colorful.
There is no better way to say, youve got rizz.
