Valentine Day Extra

...with recipes for the food of love

The food of love is best eaten with your fingers while gazing into the loved one’s eyes in order to divert attention away from the butter on your chin. Eggs, small birds and peaches are appropriate. Roses are red, violets are blue…and so on. I’m sure you get the picture.

Eggs benedict

Start as you mean to go on. Eggy things are always to be considered aphrodisiac - stands to reason. This particular dish, popular since the twenties (anything goes), shows an encouraging willingness to spend time on a task.