Could I marry you? We had the same dinner we've had every Valentine's Day for 50 years. Heart-shaped meatloaf, mashed potatoes and red cabbage. Even broke open a bottle of wine. DS sent a picture of his heart-shaped meatloaf that he made for his girlfriend. It's tradition.

I was considering risotto and the wine-guy at the grocery store suggested using red wine rather than white wine in it so it would end up pink, and then plating it in the shape of a heart. With the delay in starting cooking and the uncertainty whether the power would stay on I decided to make the salmon instead. Start to finish the main course was about 15 minutes, (and the soup I had made a couple of days ago, and merely needed to reheat it.) risotto would have been at least 45 minutes counting prep and cook time.

We had loaded cauliflower, brussel sprouts fried in bacon grease with bits of real bacon and pork rind and parmesan crusted buffalo chicken nuggets.

A couple of my favorites shrimp and crawfish yummm.

Stir-fry shrimp and chicken with pea pods and carrots. Mashed potatoes (which I do not like but DH loves - hey it's Valentines Day), spinach salad and buns. We don't eat dessert but I bought him a single serving of lemon cheesecake which he really enjoys.

Our dinner today was Dr. Phil's Southern Style Pot Roast, which was delicious. With the pot roast veggies, we had mashed potatoes. Then Bavarian Apple Cheesecake for dessert.

Medium rare prime rib, with sauteed green beans and baked potato, at the club.

Our kids brought over pizza and that is what I had. I fixed my husband a pureed up meal and took it upstairs to him. It was on Valentine's Day 62 years ago we had our first date.

Sue

Our menu was supposed to be steak, creamed spinach, grilled asparagus, and roasted turnip roots. DH had a terrible headache all day and didn't feel like grilling the steak. Instead, I went to our neighborhood Italian restaurant and picked up chicken sorrentino, garlic knots and a salad. We opened a great bottle of Sonoma Zinfandel. For dessert, we had some of the chocolate covered strawberries that DH sent me for Valentine's Day. DH is feeling much better this morning, so we're planning to have the steak meal tonight.

I mad chicken scallopine/cutlets with a lemon and caper sauce. Quinoa with sauteed asparagus and white wine.

Dessert was jello and frozen fruit combined, and stirred into whipped cream, in wine glasses.

We grilled tenderloin of beef, mild peppers and garlic shrimp. Side dishes were steamed broccoli, napa cabbage coleslaw.

We had no room for dessert!