St Valentines Day

St Valentines Day
February the 14th is known as Valentine's or St Valentine's Day and is celebrated by many English speaking countries throughout the world. It is the day when you express your love to someone by presenting them with cards and gifts. St Valentine's day is named after not one but several ancient Roman martyered saints. It was not until the middle ages that the day became associated with love and romance, thanks largely to the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer, when courting became more of a tradition ...

St Valentine's Day
St Valentine's Day is the Ultimate Day for Love and Romance
It is the single most popular day each year upon which men, women - and even many children - send cards and an endless variety of gifts to express their love or admiration for one another. But why is it called St Valentine's Day and why is it that we celebrate it specifically on 14th February? Who was the man we call St Valentine and where and when did he live? In order to answer those questions among others, we must delve into the dark and distant past and the times of the Holy Roman Empire....

A Sweet Treat for Valentine's Day
Valentine's Delight
This creation combines fruit flavoured jelly with fresh fruit, cream and chocolate. It will surely be remembered for quite some time since it doesn't have as many calories as a thick creamy cake (the ladies are always sensitive to this). Let me describe it as a inch layer of strawberry jelly with slices of banana inside, all "sandwiched" in between two thin layers of sponge cake. As topping, it has as many blobs of pink coloured cream as you want, placed with a confectioner's syringe on top...