Valentine's Day

We are not very sentimental.  Anniversaries are sacred, because for the last 3 years they have meant Hawaii vacations! But Valentine's Day, we can take and/or leave.  For example, last year on Valentine's day I had a work deadline that lasted til 3am.  If anything we use V-day as an excuse to go to a nice dinner.  This year we wanted to stay home and enjoy our new house so we had a fancy night in. We dressed up and poured some rose and ate fondue!  (Warning!  This is definitely not a vegan blog anymore!)

Why yes, I did make a cheese plate as an appetizer for our fondue dinner.

There are a million cheese fondue recipes on the internet and most of them are essentially the same.  I used a variation on this one: http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2010/11/making-swiss-cheese-fondue-recipe/.

The spread! Fondue, plus broccoli, brussels sprouts, bread, mushrooms,
cauliflower and potatoes for dipping.

For dessert, I made mini molten chocolate cakes from this recipe: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/14/dining/141nrex.html. I didn't really think it was necessary to make 6 servings for the 2 of us, so Kevin was very helpful in doing the math for halving 1/3 and 3/4 cups. There were spreadsheets involved.  The cakes turned out amazing and I even whipped some cream and added strawberries:

Those cakes!  So molten!

And for breakfast this morning I turned the leftover cauliflower, potatoes, mushrooms and brussels sprouts into a hash with a little cheese and some scrambled eggs.

Repurposed!

I'm off to San Francisco next week, just in time for the heat wave to hit Michigan (Highs above freezing!  And even in the 40s and 50s!).  But look forward to more posts about our new home, and life in the "country".