Yesterday was Valentine's Day. Instead of fighting the crowds and making reservations weeks in advance, Kate and I decided to stay at home and make a nice dinner ouselves. We've been getting more adventerous in the kitchen anyway, so we thought this would be a fun and romantic way to spend the night.
The photo above does a nice job of portraying how good of a job Kate did at creating the "ambiance" as she put it. Candles and music in the dining room (she downloaded a bunch of new tunes, it was really nice). The entree was fresh caught salmon with a wine/shallot/butter reduction, asparagus and roasted red potatoes.
Kate was very ambitious with dessert and made a lava chocolate cake. I wasn't too happy because it used semi-sweet chocolate instead of milk chocolate - but I was wrong. It was amazing! Kate really did a great job and cranked it out in 30 minutes!
Kate had ice cream with hers, but I wanted fresh whipped cream with mine as the receipe called for. So i whipped it up from scratch with the blender. But, just as i was finishing up, the wisk attachment for the hand blender snapped off and got whipped cream EVERYWHERE (notice the collateral damage on the microwave) and cut my finger in the process. But the whipped cream was delicious and all is well that ends well. It was a romantic Valentine's Day and our last time celebrating it as single people, crazy!
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