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10 Important Details to Consider When Choosing Your Valentine's Day Menu

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The Food’s “Side Effects”

Let's put this delicately: Valentine’s Day is meant to be romantic...and there’s absolutely nothing romantic about garlic breath. Or spice sweats. Or bloating.

While something as trivial as bad breath might be fine on any ordinary night, especially if you and your partner are long past the stage of easy embarrassment and are totally comfortable around each other, it certainly doesn’t set the mood for a romantic evening and could easily spoil dinner (as well as anything that might happen afterward).

On the flip side of foods that could ruin the mood, what about ones that could help set it? Here’s a list of aphrodisiac ingredients that you might consider incorporating in the meal.


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VIDEO: Chicken Quesadillas

These quick and easy chicken quesadillas are the perfect, last-minute family dinner!

INGREDIENTS:

  • 2 chicken breasts
  • 1/2 cup of tomato sauce
  • 1/2 cup of chives, chopped
  • 1 tsp. of Mexican spice mix
  • 4 Tortillas
  • Cheddar
  • Salt, to taste

METHOD:

  1. Put shredded chicken breast, tomato sauce, chives, and mexican spice mix in a bowl and mix together.
  2. Lay out the tortillas. Place a slice of cheddar in the center, and cover with the chicken mix.
  3. Fold up tortillas, and heat in a frying pan until golden.
  4. Enjoy!