Valentine’s Day is for losers . . . says the bitter single part of me. Let’s start again. . . .
Valentine’s Day is for couples, of which I am not one half. So it was wonderful to spend the day after this infamous Day of Luuurve with some of my favorite single girlfriends. Three of my best friends from grad school came over to watch romantic movies and eat some great food.
We gorged ourselves on spinach salad with feta, red grapes, and a raspberry wine vinaigrette, lemon-braised dilly chicken with beans and mint pesto, and my friend Atyya's salted caramel brownies. She’s promised me the recipe—it’s based on something from Ina Garten, but she tweaked it quite a bit, including adding a drizzle of salted caramel on top (spoiler: they were INCREDIBLE). Oh, and we drank our way through two bottles of red wine--Cupcake Cabernet Sauvignon and Lo Nuevo's Sorbo a Sorbo Garnacha.
I also made a snappy honey ginger lemon spritzer, to cleanse the palate and settle our stomachs. This last bit was so that we could also eat peanut butter Lindt truffles and Trade Joe’s dark chocolate caramels—THIS IS A NO JUDGING ZONE. HATERS TO THE LEFT AND AWAY FROM THIS WEBSITE. If we can’t have our very own Lee Pace waiting for us at home, then we’re gonna eat our chocolate and drink our wine in the company of our fellows without any judgy comments, thank you.
Here are some pictures of the recipes to come. I’ll post each recipe in a separate post throughout the week. I hate when more than one recipe is buried in a giant post. When I troll the other food blogs for ideas, I want to know exactly what’s in the post. So there. If that’s weird, let me know.
(Disclaimer about the pictures: some of them may be blurry in this first week of posts, as I'm using my iPhone while I wait for Amazon to send me my camera's lithium ion battery.)
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| Blurry salad photo. Sorry! |
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| Lemon-braised chicken and beans with mint pesto, accompanied by a slice of my co-op's delicious (overpriced?) bread. |
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| Spicy honey ginger lemon spritzer. Zing! |
P.S. In case you're wondering, we watched Austenland first. It was worth it for the presence of JJ Feild (who looks like a cross between Tom Hiddleston and Lee Pace—I KNOW, RIGHT?) and Bret McKenzie (of Flight of the Conchords fame). After that, we watched Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. This is such a wonderful movie, with three actors I love a lot: a kickass Frances McDormand; every woman's best friend, Amy Adams; and the delightful and dreamy Lee Pace.
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