AmazingRibs.com is supported by our Pitmaster Club. Also, when you buy with links on our site we may earn a finder’s fee.
Click to see how we test and review products.
Cook Up Some Love this Valentine’s Day (12 Recipes, 1 Article)
Published On: 2/11/2023 Last Modified: 2/7/2026
Food has long been associated with love and affection. Throughout history, humans have used food as a way to communicate. Gods have been offered the best of the harvest. Holidays are celebrated by gathering and feasting on the finest foods. And we often save the best bits of food for special loved ones. In this tradition, Valentine’s Day has become an influential food holiday.
Valentine’s Day began as the Feast of St. Valentine and is an official religious holiday in some communities, such as the Lutheran church. Beginning around the 14th century, the day took on more secular significance as a show of affection for loved ones in the form of gifts, including flowers, food, candy, and love notes. To this day, those gifts remain a Valentine’s Day tradition.
Today, some also believe that certain foods have the power to charm your lover, including supposed aphrodisiacs like chocolate, bananas, cherries, whipped cream, avocados, and oysters. No matter what you cook and eat on Valentine’s Day, sharing food is an expression of love. So we’ve put together some of our favorite recipes to help you celebrate this romantic holiday in style. This Valentine’s Day, let these recipes nourish you in both body and soul.
Homemade Chocolate Truffles, As Easy To Make As They Are To Fall In Love With
Chocolate truffles are elegant and surprisingly easy to make! They start with a simple mixture of melted chocolate and cream (called ganache).
An Epic Surf-and-Turf: Filet Mignon And Butter Poached Lobster
Romance is in full bloom with this mouthwatering take on traditional surf-and-turf. Your loved one will surely thank us after!
Feast on Beef Tallow Painted Steaks Packed With Protein and Flavor
Create grilled steaks as good or better than they do in the best expensive steakhouses with this comprehensive how-to and recipe.NEW
Feast On A Smoked Tomahawk Steak from Eric Wareheim's Cookbook Steak House
Feast on this smoked tomahawk steak recipe, generously shared by Eric Wareheim from his cookbook, Steak House.
Grilled Lobster Puts That Bland Boiled Stuff To Shame
Boiled lobster is good, but grilled lobster is better and here is the only recipe you need to make it happen!this item is for members only
Tender Sous Vide And Grilled Lobster Tail With Chimichurri Butter
Cooked to perfection with sous vide then lightly charred on the grill, this sous-vide-que lobster tail recipe is the best you'll ever taste.
Grilled Oysters With Roasted Garlic Butter And Romano
If you've only ever eaten oysters raw, this recipe will be a revelation. And if you've never warmed up to oysters, give this recipe a try.
Smoked Chocolate Chips Amp Up Any Dessert
Take your desserts over the top with this recipe for smoking chocolate chips at home. Cold smoking is the key to this recipe.
Level Up Your Eggs Benedict Game With Filet Mignon
Smoked and grilled filet mignon is the star of this mouthwatering eggs benedict recipe. Click here for details.
The Science of Chocolate
Here's what you need to know about how chocolate is made, including the different types, how to melt it, and how to cook with it.
Chocolate Chile BBQ Sauce Recipe. Yes, You Read That Right.
This delicious sauce has the classic profile of any great BBQ sauce, sweet, tart, spicy, but with a wonderful twist: The taste of chocolate.
Smoked Whipped Cream: The Secret To Amazing Grilled Strawberry Shortcake
Briefly grilled strawberries and smoked whipped cream are the stars of this delicious BBQ twist on southern strawberry shortcake.Related articles
- Seasonal Topics (10 Pages)
- An Epic Surf-and-Turf: Filet Mignon And Butter Poached Lobster
- Grilled Oysters With Roasted Garlic Butter And Romano
- Homemade Chocolate Truffles, As Easy To Make As They Are To Fall In Love With
- Smoked Chocolate Chips Recipe
- Level Up Your Eggs Benedict Game With Filet Mignon
- The Science of Chocolate
- Chocolate Chile BBQ Sauce Recipe. Yes, You Read That Right.
- Smoked Whipped Cream: The Secret To Amazing Grilled Strawberry Shortcake
- Enjoy A Taste Of Paris With This Twist On The Croque Madame
- Tender Sous Vide And Grilled Lobster Tail With Chimichurri Butter
High quality websites are expensive to run. If you help us, we’ll pay you back bigtime with an ad-free experience and a lot of freebies!
Millions come to AmazingRibs.com every month for high quality tested recipes, tips on technique, science, mythbusting, product reviews, and inspiration. But it is expensive to run a website with more than 2,000 pages and we don’t have a big corporate partner to subsidize us.
Our most important source of sustenance is people who join our Pitmaster Club. But please don’t think of it as a donation. Members get MANY great benefits. We block all third-party ads, we give members free ebooks, magazines, interviews, webinars, more recipes, a monthly sweepstakes with prizes worth up to $2,000, discounts on products, and best of all a community of like-minded cooks free of flame wars. Click below to see all the benefits, take a free 30 day trial, and help keep this site alive.
Post comments and questions below
1) Please try the search box at the top of every page before you ask for help.
2) Try to post your question to the appropriate page.
3) Tell us everything we need to know to help such as the type of cooker and thermometer. Dial thermometers are often off by as much as 50°F so if you are not using a good digital thermometer we probably can’t help you with time and temp questions. Please read this article about thermometers.
4) If you are a member of the Pitmaster Club, your comments login is probably different.
5) Posts with links in them may not appear immediately.
Moderators