Valentine's Day History
Valentine's Day Dining
Kickstart the day with a Valentine's Day breakfast at home to skip the queues and add sweetness to your special brunch.
Our Spiced Sugar Brioche French Toast is the ideal Valentine's Day breakfast adding something sweet to the start of the day. Finished with berry compote and candied nuts, this recipe epitomises Valentine's Day for a tasty treat with your loved one.
For those on the go, add a twist to your morning cereal with our Toasted Chocolate Muesli is a quick and easy way to make Valentine's Day special.
Our Spiced Sugar Brioche French Toast is the ideal Valentine's Day breakfast adding something sweet to the start of the day. Finished with berry compote and candied nuts, this recipe epitomises Valentine's Day for a tasty treat with your loved one.
For those on the go, add a twist to your morning cereal with our Toasted Chocolate Muesli is a quick and easy way to make Valentine's Day special.
Keep lunch light this Valentine's Day to leave room for the hearty Valentine's Dinner you're going to be cooking up for date night. The HelloFresh Chorizo, Cherry Tomato and Pesto Risoni Salad is the ideal quick lunchtime salad that packs a punch in flavour, too. Forget boring lunches this Valentine's Day and add a boost with this midday treat.
Choosing recipes full of flavour this Valentine's Day will help boost the mood and prepare you and your loved one for a day of shared memories you won't forget. For another colourful Valentine's Day lunch filled with exciting flavours and textures, the HelloFresh Roast Veggie and Garlic Crouton Salad is a great choice, as long as you remember a breath mint to cover up the garlic!
Choosing recipes full of flavour this Valentine's Day will help boost the mood and prepare you and your loved one for a day of shared memories you won't forget. For another colourful Valentine's Day lunch filled with exciting flavours and textures, the HelloFresh Roast Veggie and Garlic Crouton Salad is a great choice, as long as you remember a breath mint to cover up the garlic!
Recreate your restaurant favourites to help make Valentine's Day special at home with HelloFresh recipes.
With our vegetarian Valentine's Day ideas, everyone can enjoy hearty food that warms the soul with their significant others.
What would date night be without some Valentine's Day chocolate?
Valentine's Day with HelloFresh
Weird food combos provided by experts to try this Valentine's Day
Are you an experimental couple looking to push the boundaries this Valentine's Day? HelloFresh has got you covered.We partnered with expert, Professor Russell Keast PhD, CFS, Head of Deakin’s CASS Food Research Centre, where he studies taste and its influence on the consumption of foods, to discover some scientifically proven food combos that work.
"There are no absolute rules with food pairing and there are a lot of individual variations – some people enjoy pickles and ice cream, while others think it is revolting. But when you break down the possibilities there are generally four categories that work: 1. contrasts (salted caramel), 2. dominant (lime and chilli), 3. subtle (oysters and nori) and 4. complementary (vanilla and sweet).
Experimental flavour combos for date night
"Vanilla is a very good addition to flavour combinations. It works because it is an attractive and subtle flavour that is complementary to both sweet and savoury dishes. It is important not to add too much, you want it to be in the background – not dominating."Caramelised onion and Kakadu plum, too. Kakadu plum has a strong sourness and slight bitterness which contrast with the sweetness of the onion. Perfect as a side dish for roasted lamb or grilled steak, then you have a strong foundation with all of the basic tastes having a role: salt, sweet, sour and bitter. In addition, you are also activating alimentary taste: umami and fat. So, with all these tastes activated, you have a great oral experience!
Finally, Bush Tucker ingredients are gaining popularity, and wattle seed is one of those. Stewed apples and wattle seeds are exceptional. You could prepare an apple and wattle seed pie or crumble. You only need 1 tablespoon of ground wattle seed for 1 kg of cooked apples. It works because of the subtle grain/roasted flavour of the wattle seed, but also a creaminess in the mouth. This may be due to the activation of fat taste receptors by the wattle seed adding fullness or richness to the apple.
