Mood Food: Recipes to Reflect Your Mood

Decadent delights, energy boosting treats to put a spring in your step, wild flavors that tantalize the taste buds, romantic riches to share with a special someone: whatever the mood, enhance it with just the right recipes! Need a little pampering? Nothing beats food for providing comfort: dig into a sinfully indulgent polenta salad or heavenly hot chocolate crêpes. When you're raring to go, try stunning your senses with spicy beef koftas in pizzaiola sauce, followed by a long, refreshing drink of limeade and grapefruit mint cooler. Be adventurous--serve something entirely new, like Cambodian steamboat soup, an extraordinary cook-at-the table hotpot of poached seafood in an aromatic stock of startlingly tart ingredients. But, for just the two of you, share a little "passionate persuasion"; one nibble of the devilled oysters and you'll know why this dish has a reputation for being an aphrodisiac! Every recipe includes cooking and preparation times, and delicious-looking color photographs of the food.