Dishing out love

BREAKFAST
Heart-shaped eggs
Use an egg form or a medium heart cookie cutter to make some fried eggs and you’re off to an ‘egg’cellent start to your Valentine’s Day celebrations

Strawberry-Banana Smoothie
Mix up a smoothie in your blender with a combination of orange juice,frozen strawberries and bananas.

LUNCH
Heart-shaped pizza
Make heart-shaped pizzas by creatively working the dough into a heart. A slight modification to a round ball of rolled dough will do the trick.

Filled Heart Sandwiches
For another great sandwich idea,spread strawberry jam on one slice of bread,then cut out a heart shape from a second slice. When you put the two slices together,you have a beautiful red heart jam sandwich.

DINNER
I Love You Pasta
Serve ‘love pasta’ (spaghetti noodles shaped into a big heart with tomato sauce in the centre) and heart-shaped garlic toast. For the garlic toast,cut heart shapes out of several pieces of white bread. Spread on a little butter mixed with some garlic powder and Parmesan cheese.

Heart Cake
Making a heart-shaped cake without a special cake pan is easier than you think. Start with your favourite double cake recipe. Pour half of the batter in an eight or nine inch square cake pan,and the second half into the same size round cake pan. Bake,once cooled,slice the round cake in half,so that you have two equal semi-circles. The heart is created by placing the round halves on each side of the square cake. Decorate with your favourite icing or,if using chocolate icing,top with chocolate shavings.