12 Date Night Recipes
“Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted calf with hatred.”
Proverbs 15:17 NKJV
A great date night does not need a reservation. These 12 recipes bring restaurant-style dinners to your own table, from seared scallops and a herb-crusted rack of lamb to creamy rum pasta, show-stopping desserts and a rum cream espresso martini to finish. Light a candle, pour something nice and cook together.
Starters and Seafood
1. Garlic Butter Jerk Sea Scallops
Seared until golden and finished in garlic butter with a jerk kick, this is the starter that sets the tone for the night.
2. Pan-Fried Jamaican Coconut Curry Salmon
Crisp-edged salmon in a creamy coconut curry sauce, an easy fish course that looks like it came from a restaurant.
Steakhouse, Lamb and Beef
3. Herb-Crusted Rack of Lamb with Red Label Sauce
A stunning roast rack of lamb with a herb crust and a rich red label sauce. Tender, bold and made for two.
4. Honey Garlic Lamb Loin
Sticky, sweet and savory lamb loin that cooks up tender and glossy in one pan.
5. Pan-Seared Jerk Herb Crusted Steak
A juicy steak coated in a scotch bonnet, garlic and rosemary butter for a true steakhouse sear.
6. Jamaican Brown Stew Rib Eye Steak
Rib eye steak simmered in a rich brown stew gravy with peppers and carrots.
7. Stew Beef Short Ribs (Caribbean Style)
Slow-cooked short ribs in a deep, savory Caribbean stew. Fork tender and worth the wait.
Pasta
8. Penne alla Rum
A creamy Jamaican-style pasta with a splash of rum, comfort food dressed up for date night.
Desserts and a Nightcap
9. Jamaican Rum Cream Tres Leches
Richer and more indulgent than the classic, this rum cream tres leches is a showstopper dessert.
10. Jerk Tavern Callaloo Cheesecake
The first Jamaican callaloo cheesecake, a bold dessert you will not find on a regular menu.
11. Mini Red Velvet Bundt Cheesecake
All the best of red velvet and cheesecake in mini bundt form, perfect for sharing.
12. Rum Cream Espresso Martini
A five minute cocktail to end the evening on a high note.
“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.”
John 15:4 NKJV
A Word of Wisdom
Jesus Christ is all we need in this life. As He said, He is the tree and we are the branches. If a branch is broken off the tree, it no longer lives but starts to die and dry out. An what do we do with dead branches? We burn them for fire. This is what will happen to anyone that is not attached to Jesus. The end of that persons fate is hell fire. But if we abide in Him, or stay attached to Jesus, we will have eternal life. He lives forever, He has already been immortalized, and He promises this to us believers.
So how do we abide in Him? By keeping His words in us. He is the Word of God that became flesh. All the words that He spoke come from our Father in heaven Yah. Jesus is Yah in the flesh. God is a Spirit. So in order for us to know Him, He came as a human being through Jesus, and called Him His only Son. Jesus is in Yah and Yah is in Him. All His words bring life. For man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of Yah.
Every single word that Jesus spoke came from Yah. If we abide in what Jesus told us, we shall never die, but we will all live. Love Him and keep His commandments. Keep His sayings. Hold on to His words of life. His parables, everything we read in the gospels, keep them in your memory, to the point where you start to speak just like Him. An as He said, out of your belly shall flow living waters. Why? Because the words you will start to speak will be His words of life, for us to share to others as well.
Abide in Jesus, He will manifest Himself to you and bless you with the Holy Spirit, that seals us with His promises and gives us the power to overcome death unto eternal life.
Rum Cream Espresso Martini
Ingredients
- ½ cup Jamaican rum cream
- ½ cup vodka
- ½ cup strong Blue Mountain coffee , brewed and cooled
- ¼ cup Kamora Coffee Liqueur
- 2 cups ice
- 6 coffee beans , for garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Brew the coffee. Make it strong and let it cool completely. Hot coffee will melt your ice and water the drink down.
- Chill your glasses. Pop two martini glasses in the freezer for a few minutes.
- Add everything to a shaker. Pour in the rum cream, vodka, coffee, and Kamora, then add the ice.
- Shake hard. Shake for about 20 seconds, until the shaker is very cold. This is what builds the foam on top.
- Strain and pour. Strain evenly into the two chilled glasses.
- Garnish. Float three coffee beans on top of each glass and serve right away.
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