8 easy date night recipes

Tonight your appetizer is leek and shrimp snuggled up in a dumpling wrapper. This recipe makes 40 pieces, so if you want this savoury, two-bite treat to be your main, you do you. Get the recipe: Leek and Shrimp Potstickers

Thinly sliced veal cooks up in a hurry, so if kids are attending this date night, they won’t be fussed waiting for their gourmet dinner to be ready. Serve alongside sauteed veggies because balance. Get the recipe: Veal Saltimbocca

Date night meals don’t need to be fussy. This pizza is delicious and made with that rotisserie chicken you picked up on the way home from work in a panic because you forgot you needed to feed your family. And look at this hack: salad on TOP of pizza. Genius. Get the recipe: Chicken Caesar Pizza

Impressive enough for date night but easy enough for every other day of the week, may we present your new gourmet go-to. Juicy salmon with perfectly seasoned veg, ready on one tray. Minimal effort, maximum payoff. We likey. Get the recipe: Sheet Pan Sesame Salmon and Broccoli

Look at you Lady and the Tramp-ing with this Italian dish. It’s a classic and such a cinch: spaghetti, egg, cream, Parm and bacon. Get the recipe: Pasta Carbonara

Get the recipe: Grilled Turkey and Garlic Lemon Arugula Salad 

Here’s a little treat to eat while you cozy up and watch Netflix. Here’s the deal: peanut butter, icing sugar and melted chocolate. Pretty good, right? Get the recipe: Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls

Is it ice cream or is it mousse? It’s kind of both. Semifreddo is a partially frozen dessert that’s not going to give you brain freeze. This chocolatey version, with malt balls for crunch, is the perfect way to cap off a yummy stay-at-home dinner. Get the recipe: Malted Milk-Chocolate Semifreddo