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Valentine’s Day

This recipe collection covers all of my favorite Valentine’s Day recipes including a delicious pan-seared duck breast recipe and a complete Valentine’s Day menu including dessert! 

A full pan of butternut squash lasagna.

Roasted Butternut Squash Lasagna
A skillet filled with crispy chicken thighs and preserved lemon.

Crispy Chicken Thighs with Preserved Lemon
This basic recipe for Grand Marnier chocolate truffles can be adapted to satisfy all likings: toasted coconut, chopped nuts or confectioners' sugar can replace the cocoa powder, as can any type of alcohol replace the Grand Marnier. Personally I find the classic cocoa-covered truffles to be the most satisfying. Paired with some fresh strawberries these bittersweet chocolate truffles are a truly delectable, if clichéd, Valentine’s Day treat. // alexandracooks.com

Grand Marnier Chocolate Truffles

Homemade Fluff, Bruléed or Not
An up close photo of cut brownies on a board.

Best-Ever Fudgy (Shiny-Topped!) Homemade Brownies
A pile of homemade oven fries.

Crispy, Homemade Oven-Baked French Fries
Shortbread in pink Ted Lasso biscuit box.

Simple, Classic Shortbread + A Ted Lasso Biscuit Box for Gifting
Heavy cream, sugar, vanilla bean, egg yolks — it would have been a serious let down if these pots de creme hadn't been anything but spectacular, which they were, tasting like untorched crème brulée, but better, with the smoothest, most velvety texture, perfectly sweet, deeply satisfying in every which way. // alexandracooks.com

Vanilla Bean Pots de Crème
An overhead shot of jars filled with chocolate mousse and topped with chocolate shavings.

Julia Child’s Chocolate Mousse
A bowl of homemade vegan chocolate mousse made with whipped aquafaba.

Vegan Chocolate Mousse (Aquafaba + Almond milk)
A sliced loaf of lemon semolina cake.

Lemon-Semolina Almond Cake
This chocolate-espresso icebox cake takes all of 20 minutes to throw together, will receive rave reviews from your guests, and you will find too irresistible, impossible, in fact, not to sneak a little spoonful of every time you open the fridge. // alexandracooks.com

Chocolate-Espresso Icebox Cake

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Just-baked rosemary focaccia.

Overnight, Refrigerator Focaccia = The Best Focaccia Bread Recipe
Just baked margherita pizza.

Simple, 4-Ingredient Homemade Pizza Dough
A halved loaf of sourdough bread.

Homemade Sourdough Bread, Step by Step
A bowl over overnight chia oats and berries.

Overnight Chia Oats (Gluten-free, Dairy Free)
Two fresh loaves of peasant bread on a cooling rack, and the pyrex bowls they were baked in.

My Mother’s Peasant Bread: The Best Easiest Bread You Will Ever Make
An overhead shot of a dozen blueberry muffins on a cooling rack.

The Best Lemon-Blueberry Muffins
An up close photo of cut brownies on a board.

Best-Ever Fudgy (Shiny-Topped!) Homemade Brownies
A tray of soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies.

Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Alexandra Stafford

Alexandra (Ali) Stafford is the founder of Alexandra’s Kitchen and the author of two cookbooks: Bread Toast Crumbs and The New York Times bestselling Pizza Night. She lives in Upstate New York with her husband, four children, 3 cats, and 1 dog.

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