I hope everyone else had a great Valentines Day too!
I had a pretty good one.
Tuesday I had a bunch of roses delivered to Kim's office, mostly so that all of her co-workers would be jealous of how awesome I am. I attached a funny card and generally felt pretty good about the gift, especially since it was the first time I respected our mutually agreed upon spending limit.
Wednesday (and part of Tuesday night) I prepared the following menu with Kim's help. The recipies all came from the Food Network's website and all are from the kitchen of Emeril Lagasse:
Appetizer - herbed flan with caviar served with homemade croustinis. Kim wrinkled her nose at the sound of this one but she tried it and to her surprise she loved it. It came out really well and was very tasty. Too much for just the two of us, it would really work for four people.
Salad - baby spinach, red onion, and hearts of palm with citirus and a homemade citirus dressing (Kim prepared this). This recipie will definitely be repeated. For our tastes, the citirus dressing was a bit too tart so next time we will half the lemon juice and replace it with more orange juice.
Entree - grilled lobster tail with a lemon tarragon sauce. This tasted awesome and was actually really easy to do. My only complaint with lobster in general is that it doesn't stay hot on the plate off the grill so timing is important
Dessert - A homemade poundcake, soaked in amaretto liquor and layered with milk and white chocolate. This was incredibly rich and tasted amazing. There was a lot of prep to this one, starting with baking a pound cake. I used bittersweet chocolate and felt that the cake was just right - semisweet chocolate would have made it too sweet.
In other big news, just before dinner Kim and I found out that our offer had been accepted. We will be moving to Sandy Springs, from a 2 bedroom 2.5 bath cluster home into a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath house with a full basement. We're both very excited about this and are looking forward to spending all of our hard earned savings to buy, furnish, and heat the new monstrosity of a house!
Also - for VDay, Kim gave me the new Killer's CD (great band) and the Rainbow Six Vegas game for the Xbox. She loves me enough to get me stuff that prevents us from being together!