Valentine's Day is coming. For some of us this is purely about selling commercial products, but for others it is an excuse to rejuvenate their relationship with their sweetheart. Do you know who Saint Valentine (from whom we get the name Valentine's Day) was?

A doctor and priest lived in the III century in the Roman Empire under Claudius II. The Emperor disqualified young men from marrying because without families they were better legionaries. This interdict was broken by Saint Valentine, who performed marriage rites for couples. He was thrown into prison where he fell in love with the blind daughter of his guard, who apparently girl regained her sight due to this love. The Emperor condemned Valentine to death. Before the execution Valentine wrote a letter to his beloved signed "from your Valentine". Valentine was executed on 14th February in the year 269.

I have never been interested in teddy bears with red hearts, but I like spending Valentine's Day in a more romantic way than on other ordinary days. Now that we have children, we prepare a candlelit dinner at home. Maybe you will like my proposal for a Valentine's Day menu. Today I would like to share with you a recipe for a salad with prawns. The next blog entry will be a recipe for something sweet for dessert.

Ingredients:
salad
400g of large cooked prawns
mixed lettuce
1 orange1 grapefruit
1 avocado
1 fistful of cashew nuts
1 fistful of chopped spring onion
1 tablespoon of butter
2 cloves of garlic
1 fistful of chopped parsley
dressing

2 tablespoons of lemon juice
1 tablespoon of orange juice
1 tablespoon of honey
1 teaspoon of minced chili pepper without seeds
2 tablespoons of olive oil
pepper

If you have frozen prawns, take them out of the freezer and defrost them. Slice the garlic. Melt the butter in a pan, add the garlic and heat it up for a while. Add the prawns and fry for 1 minute. Add the parsley, mix it in and turn off the heat. Peel the avocado and slice it. Peel the citrus fruit and remove the white membranes. Add the fruit segments and pieces of avocado to the lettuce. Make the dressing from the juices, chili pepper, honey and olive oil. Spice it up with pepper. Sprinkle the salad with the dressing. Now arrange the prawns and cashew nuts and sprinkle with the minced spring onion.

Enjoy your meal!