Do you want to make your Valentine’s Day special? In addition to red roses, chocolate or teddy bears, there are a lot of other things you can purchase or make for your significant other for February 14. If you are planning to prepare dinner for two on Valentine’s Day, you might want to serve a heart shaped salmon or a heart shaped trout –whichever you prefer. This is not something traditional. In fact, it became quite a trend last year when grocers started selling heart shaped salmon.
If you really want to serve seafood on Valentine’s Day, you can make seared sea scallops placed on yummy parsley sauce or pomegranate glazed salmon with horseradish cream.
There are a lot of seafood recipes to choose from and most of these recipes are easy to make. But why has seafood suddenly become a popular meal of choice for this special day? The Greek goddess Aphrodite was born of sea foam and if you do not know it yet, Aphrodite = aphrodisiac. This is not just some mumbo jumbo really because the ancient world actually believed that seafood has aphrodisiac qualities. Even scientists believe this but they of course did not bank on mythology.
Experts believe that the most effective aphrodisiacs are oysters and clams. While some love serving trout, tuna, or a heart-shaped salmon, others stick to scallops and lobsters. Lobster liver, they say, is a potent aphrodisiac on its own so it might high time to look for a lobster liver recipe in preparation for your Valentine’s Day dinner. The tomalley section of the lobster is usually added as a condiment to spicy food but the said anatomical part of the lobster does not only add spice to a dish but also a bit of spice and everything nice in the bedroom.
