Valentine's Day Dinner

So, I am finally getting to the Valentine's Day dinner stuff. 

These are the beautiful roses Dustin got me and arranged in a crystal vase we got for the wedding.

These are the amazing potato things that Dustin made us.  For the recipe, leave a comment.

Now we go onto making fondue.  This is a swiss fondue.

Shred 3 cups swiss and 2 cups gruyere cheese.  Coat in flour.

This is the dry white wine we used.  It was given to us by the hotel on our honeymoon.

Measure out some wine.  

Put the wine in a large saucepan and boil well to cook out the alcohol.

This is the wine boiling.  You can't really tell.

Gradually add the cheese while constantly stirring.

Mix milk, dry cooking sherry, and some nutmeg.  Add to the cheese and mix until all the cheese is melted.

Pour the cheese into the fondue pot.

Cut up various vegetables, fruits, and breads to dip into the fondue.  

We broiled cauliflower and broccoli and served those along with apples, pears, and italian bread.

It was an amazing dinner.

THANK YOU DUSTIN!!!  I love you!

XOXO

Long Wonderful Weekend

This weekend was amazing.  Dustin was off work on Friday, and neither of us had school yesterday, so it was a four day weekend.  Dustin and I spent lots of time together, which we really needed.  It is so hard during the week to never get to spend time together.  I hate it.  For Valentines day, Dustin woke me up with breakfast in bed, except the plate, bowl, and cup were all empty.  This is because I hate eating breakfast when I first wake up.  He drew me a menu with food that he could cook and the cost was hugs and kisses, a certain amount for each, except the waffles were $100.  :-)  We actually ended up going out for breakfast/lunch at The Egg Factory.  I highly recommend the country garden omelet topped with hollandaise.  I think that's what it was called.  It was SO good.  Then, Dustin and I came home and put in a movie.  Dustin cooked us these potato halves with chive and onion cream cheese sour cream things.  There were amazing!  The main dinner was fondue.  We had broccoli, cauliflower, apples, pears, and bread to dip with.  I meant to make a cake on Valentines day, but it was SO late by the time I could make it.  So I ended up making the cake yesterday.  It is almost like a molten cake, but it's not really.  It was a two layer chocolate cake with a chocolate glaze, drizzled with peanut butter and caramel sauce.  Pictures to come!

I have school today.  I was sick last Wednesday and Thursday, so I missed school on Thursday.  My Math class was canceled, so I really only missed one class.  I hope every thing will be okay!

XOXO