Valentine's Day

I'll admit I am not a lover of Valentine's Day.  I think flowers are useless and I have no interest in some dumb little thing from CVS (if you haven't watched the SNL video, hop to it).  I do however, love any excuse to cook up a storm!

I gifted some tasty red velvet Chex mix.  This recipe covers Chex cereal in melted chocolate, then rolls it around in red velvet cake mix.  It's festive, and delicious!

I gave it a little extra chocolate drizzle and red sprinkles to give it a little extra pizzazz.

But wait there's more!

Our Valentine's Day celebration occurred outside normal dining hours due to work schedules so I put together a little late-night snack fest.

For the savory portion, creamy lobster crock pot dip.  This recipe came from my latest cookbook love affair Slow Cooker Revolution Volume 2, by America's Test Kitchen.

For the sweet ending, red velvet cake batter dip.  This was really good and I apologize I took such terrible photos of it.  There was just no way I could figure out how to make this dip look good.  But trust me is is really simple and really does taste like cake batter which is fantastic.

And finally I shall brag shamelessly that I got homemade samoas for Valentine's Day!!!! Holy crap you guys have no idea how freaking good they are and I feel so sorry for you.  I am a very lucky gal.

Hope you all had a lovely Valentine's Day filled with hating on everyone's "look at these flowers I got" Facebook statuses.

Valentine's Day

I made Chris Scrabble cookies for Valentine's Day and I'm really beside myself over how freaking cute they came out. I just used a regular sugar cookie recipe and piped on some chocolate frosting, because black frosting just isn't very tasty.

All point values are accurate.

We went to a Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives location in Westport, Ct for some stuffed cheese burgers.

I made some peanut butter pancakes and topped them with strawberry compote for a little pb & j breakfast.

Valentines Day Extravoganza

I have made it a habit of making food gifts for every holiday that rolls around. So this year I made my valentine some homemade gummy treats.

I put a few in some festive molds I received for Christmas and the rest in mini cupcake molds. I also stuck a few Sweet Tart conversation hearts in a few for good measure.



Scary clown or reindeer? You decide.



For dinner we made chicken stuffed with provolone cheese and spinach, some rice pilaf and roasted asparagus.


(Note: all this food was not for just the 2 of us)

And of course nothing spells romance like a nice cold glass of Pepsi Throwback.



The meal ended with a mango crumble in heart shaped ramekins because I am super cute like that. (I forgot the cinnamon and will never forgive myself)



The feasting continued with breakfast this morning. We whipped up some cinnamon sugar pancakes and broke-in our Disney 5-in-1 tasty baker.




It made an incredible quantity and this time this was food for just the 2 of us.



Here is a close up shot of all 6 characters. I put some chocolate chips in a few of them as an attempt at eyes.



I wish you all a tasty Valentine's Day!