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Adam Liaw's steak frites with Cafe de Paris butter.

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Recipes for a romantic restaurant-quality date night at home

Whether you're locked down (sorry Victoria), or simply feel like staying in this Sunday, here are some impressive-yet-achievable dinners and desserts to make for your partner.

30 recipes
Chocolate mousse adorned with chocolate-covered freeze-dried berries.

Easy Valentine's Day dessert recipe: Five-ingredient blender chocolate mousse

  • Katrina Meynink
Prawn pasta, heavy on the herbs, with 'pretend fancy sauce' and optional zucchini flowers.

Prawn pasta with pretend fancy sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
This versatile creamy mushroom sauce will soon become your go-to recipe.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Chicken with creamy mushroom sauce

  • Nagi Maehashi
Adam Liaw's take on the bistro classic.
EASY

Steak frites with Cafe de Paris butter

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Turning the chicken upside down makes for tender meat.

Roast chicken and garlic, lemon and parsley salad

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Andrew McConnell
Neil Perry's barbecued salmon and wilted spinach with anchovy butter.
EASY

Barbecued salmon and wilted spinach with anchovy butter

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
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Prawn and tomato spaghetti.
EASY

Prawn and tomato spaghetti

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Forget an extravaganza. Serve up something homemade and heartfelt.

Seafood boil with champagne, lobster and prawns

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Peaches and cream puffs.

Peaches and cream choux pastry puffs

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Poached rhubarb, raspberries, yoghurt and rose granita.

Poached rhubarb, yoghurt and rose granita with raspberries

  • 2 hrs +
  • Andrew McConnell
Molten chocolate lava cakes.

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Chocolate lava cakes with molten ganache

  • Nagi Maehashi
Giant triple chocolate cookie drizzled with hot fudge sauce.

Chocolate oblivion frypan cookie with peppermint hot fudge sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Roasted figs with prosciutto and gorgonzola

Roasted figs with prosciutto and gorgonzola

  • < 30 mins
  • Brigitte Hafner
Add a splash of vodka to your pasta sauce.
EASY

Pasta with tomato vodka sauce, chilli and burrata

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Oyster platter with homemade hot sauce.
EASY

Oyster platter with homemade hot sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Salmon and creamed spinach en croute.
EASY

Salmon and creamed spinach en croute

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Duck and grapefruit salad with honey-miso dressing and crispy wontons.

Duck and grapefruit salad with honey-miso dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
This method might be the best way to cook chook.

Neil Perry's chicken saute with pumpkin puree

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Summer seafood stew.

Neil Perry’s seafood stew with prawns, mussels and saffron

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Serve this dessert with two spoons.

Baked chocolate custard with pecan brittle

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Three Blue Ducks' creamy mashed potatoes.

Paris mash (creamy mashed potato recipe)

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Grilled beef rib-eye and corn with chipotle butter
EASY

Neil Perry's grilled beef rib-eye and corn with chipotle butter

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
This Swiss dish is basically just a cheese platter served with boiled potatoes and a few pickles.
EASY

Boiled potatoes with baked camembert

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
King George whiting meuniere
EASY

Neil Perry's King George whiting meuniere

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
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Adam Liaw's chocolate love cake.

Chocolate love cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Dive into this chocolate and nougat truffle bowl.
EASY

One bowl chocolate and nougat truffle

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Rhubarb-almond galette from Dining In by Alison Roman, published by Hardie Grant Books RRP $48.

DIY date-night dinner recipes from Alison Roman's 'Dining In'

  • Alison Roman
Green herb risotto with parmesan.

Green herb risotto

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Honeymoon Chicken.

Honeymoon chicken

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Caroline Velik
Chocolate heart cake

Chocolate heart cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix

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