11-02-2025
19 Very Doable Valentine's Day Dishes
Hello there! If you're signed up for Emily Weinstein's Five Weeknight Dishes newsletter — which of course you are — you heard from me this morning when I shared five quick and easy pastas that would make really lovely Valentine's Day dinner options.
But maybe you don't want pasta. Or you're not sure exactly what you'd like, but you want it to be fancy-ish but still simple enough to pull off at the end of a long week.
Sometimes all it takes for a dish to feel special is using an ingredient that feels a little precious, something that you don't normally reach for on a weeknight. Just that extra bit of consideration turns a tried-and-true dish into a slightly glammed-up version of itself.
An excellent example of a recipe with this 'easy but special' feeling is Yewande Komolafe's honey-glazed chicken and shallots. Shallots are, of course, the fanciest onion that still lets you peel them (looking at you, pearl onions). Their pretty, soft purple color and soft allium flavor give this one-pan dinner a little glamour. I also love how they melt into soft little shells to hold the savory skillet sauce. I know I've used the word soft a lot here — it's because this dish is a gentle sigh of a meal.
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