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Valentine's Day: In the Kitchen

by Pam Vetack
reviewed by Laura Jana, M.D., F.A.A.P.
Breakfast:
• Make heart-shaped eggs, pancakes, toast, sausage patties, or waffles. Use a knife or cookie cutter to make heart shapes.
• Serve the waffles or pancakes with fresh red berries, strawberry syrup or jam, and whipped cream or butter.
• Serve cranberry juice or strawberry-flavored milk.
• Cut out the center of a bread slice with a heart-shaped cookie cutter or a knife. Place the bread in a skillet with some melted butter and crack an egg into the center section. Fry the bread and egg until done to your liking.

Lunch:
• Pack or serve an entire meal that includes only pink or red items.
• Pink: luncheon meat, tinted butter or whipped cream cheese, seasoned snack puffs, meat spreads, grapefruit juice, pink lemonade.
• Red: berries, melon, jams, jellies, juice, salami, ketchup, tomatoes, pasta.
• Include a pink or red napkin, paper doily, and a few conversation heart candies.
• Don't forget to tuck in a Valentine, too!

Dinner
• Serve Cupid pasta (angel hair pasta with a red or white sauce).
• Press burgers into heart shapes, or mold meatloaf into a heart.
• Slice hot dogs lengthwise, leaving one inch of the link unsliced at one end. When boiled, the cut lengths will curl and you can arrange them in the shape of a heart. Serve open face on bread.

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*  Valentine's Day Trivia
*  Valentine's Day: The Ps & Qs of Valentines for Children
*  Holidays


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