Chef Kevin Broderick of the Rockhouse boutique hotel, Negril and newly opened Pushcart Restaurant & Rum Bar shares the following recipes sprinkled with just enough seduction to leave you and yours in the mood for love.

Chicken Valentino

Ingredients:

12oz chicken breast

8oz crayfish meat

4 cups fish stock

10 large leaves callaloo (blanched)

3tbsp marinade

1tbsp tomato paste

1/4cup white wine

2tbs heavy cream

1small onion (finely chopped)

1 sprig thyme

1 Bay leaf

6 pimento seeds

1/2 tbsp garlic (minced)

2 medium carrots (turned and blanched)

1 large carrot, roughly chopped

6 baby cucumbers or zucchini

2tbsp butter

1tsp minced parsley

Method:

Melt 1teaspoon butter in a saucepan then add onion, thyme, garlic, bay leaf, pimento seeds and roughly chopped carrots.

Sauté until onion is translucent then add fish stock, cover and leave to simmer

To prep chicken

Tenderise chicken with a meat mallet, season, then stuff with callaloo and crayfish meat. Wrap individually in plastic wrap and poach in fish stock for 20 mins.

To make sauce

Strain 2 cups of fish stock, add tomato paste, white wine and heavy cream, then whisk to a smooth consistency.

Simmer for 10mins.

Sauté baby cucumber and carrots with parsley and serve.

Whole Steam Snapper With Yam Cake

Ingredients: (This dish is from the Pushcart restaurant)

1 whole snapper fish

1 bundle callaloo

1/2 zucchini cut in rings

1/2 cup yam, cooked and mashed

1 egg

1/4cup breadcrumbs

2 Scotch bonnet peppers

1tsp fish seasoning

Method:

Season fish, then stuff with callaloo and wrap in foil and bake over charcoal for 15-20 minutes.

To make yam cake

Combine yam with egg, pepper and breadcrumbs, shape into patty then grill over charcoal.

Season zucchini ring and place on grill along with diced vegetables.

Grill and serve.

Cupid Shrimp Arrow

Ingredients:

6 large shrimps (peeled and cleaned)

4tbs Appleton rum

Olive oil

Lime

Tomato

Lettuce

Cucumber

Jerk marinade

Sugar cane cut into skewers

Method:

Marinate shrimp in jerk marinade with Appleton for 2 hours

Make tossed salad with tomato, lettuce, cucumber, then toss with olive oil and the juice of 1 lime.

Grill shrimp over charcoal and serve in a Martini glass.

Garnish with lime and dollop of spice relish.

Strawberry Apple Cheese Cake

Ingredients:

11/2 lb cream cheese

4oz granulated sugar

3 eggs

1/2 cup heavy cream

1/4 cup strawberry puree

1 medium otaheiti apple finely chopped

2oz Cornstarch (dissolved)

Method:

Cream cheese and sugar together then add eggs and heavy cream, strawberry puree, apple and cornstarch

Bake in a double boiler for 1 hour at 300oF

Chocolate Kisses

Ingredients:

4oz unsalted butter

3oz sugar

2 eggs

3/4 lbs flour

2oz chocolate chips

Method:

Cream butter and sugar, then add eggs, flour and chocolate chips

Mix on second speed in kitchen-aid mixer for 30 seconds.

Roll out on a floured surface.

Cut out in heart shapes.

Place on a baking sheet and bake at 350oF for 15mins

Chocolate-Covered Strawberries

Ingredients:

8ozs semi-sweet chocolate cut into small pieces

3/4 cup heavy whipping cream

2tsp unsalted butter

1tbs brandy

2 doz strawberries

Method:

Melt chocolate over a double boiler then add cream, butter and brandy

Place strawberries on a fork and dip and coat with chocolate

Sugarcane Jerk Chicken (From the Pushcart restaurant)

Ingredients:

1chicken leg and thigh, de-boned

Sugar cane (peeled and cut into 6inch strips)

1/4cup Red Stripe beer

3tsp Jerk marinade

1ripe plantain (peeled)

1/2cup jerk sauce

Method

Season chicken, and then insert sugar cane (where original bone was)

Truss with wire and grill over charcoal.

Slice ripe plantain and grill

Add beer to the jerk sauce and slow-cook for 20mins.

Serve with chicken.