Happy Valentines Day

I really like what the Yarn Harlot said about Valentines Day. Around here we try to keep it low key (depending on our mood we may or may not get gifty) and always spend the evening cooking dinner for each other (odd years I cook, even years he cooks) and just spending time focused on each other.

This year we deviated from our traditional almond chicken dish, made with lots of butter, white wine, lemon juice and almonds, due to the recent lax-vegetarianism of one household member (no meat, but if thai food happens to have some fish sauce in it… oh well). And it isn’t who you’d think it would be; Me, give up sushi entirely? Never. We had a yummy simple salad with a meyer(!) lemon vinagerette and parmasean, made a mushroom crepe cake (An early Alton Brown recipe, next time we’ll serve it in a more traditional crepe style) and enjoyed a bottle of Pinot Noir we bought on a visit here in July (it traveled from Oregon to Missouri then back to the PNW). We’ve stopped the folly of preparing a dessert since we are always too full from yummy food and wine. Then we cuddled up on the couch and watched Amelie. Man I love that movie.