no special plans

Try to stay warm! Forecast high of 4F on Valentines day here.

We usually have a surf and turf dinner at home. Our usual grocery always has a sale the week before with two KC Strip steaks and two 4 oz. lobster tails for $20. I usually pick up 2 or 3 of those to get our yearly lobster fix.

We usually don't do anything, but maybe we'll make an exception this year. A fancy dinner at home would fit the holiday, and be covid-wise.

I was thinking of ordering stuff from our favorite restaurant but the weather is looking bad for Sunday...may do Saturday instead...

No special plans as yet. it’s going to be really cold here, so I likely won’t grill.

Nothing heart shaped here but we do plan to buy and eat a nice porterhouse steak. Maybe if you angle it right and squint it might look vaguely heart shaped?

Amylou, that's adorable. With your pink kitchenware and all, maybe next year go contrast with little bluebirds, like in Snow White?

We do it up a couple of weeks later so I haven't even thought of it....

Amylou, how cute is that! I don't have any suggestions for new heart ideas but I think that your sweetie is very lucky to have such fun food on this special day. DH and I might be ordering takeout from a nicer restaurant which is a treat for me.

Stacey_mb

Amylou, I love the pizza. Hmmm...I have a heart-shaped cookie pan from Wilton. :-)

I agree....your sweetie and co-workers you share holidays with are VERY lucky to have you! All those heart shaped pans are getting a work out!

We're not doing anything specifically for valentines day. DH just had a birthday....he ordered what he wanted online. I may have purchased a little something too.

It's just me and my cat. She may sleep with me, but it's hardly romantic. So, I am ignoring Valentine's Day this year.

It's a good idea a "heart pizza"!

LOL! Artemis, I have visions of you trying to sleep with kneading, caught claws, breath sniffing and all the rest. :) Maybe she'll bring you a mouse or something as a Valentine's treat.

Me & SO dig out our old Valentine's Card to give to each other & we have a 'special' supper that I prep and he cooks. I have kept some fresh caught halibut especially for this day and will plan around that. I sometimes unexpectedly get fresh flowers which I love.

The only thing I have planned so far is to order a box of chocolates from See's candies. Hope they get here soon.

seagrass

I don’t make anything heart shaped but I’m making individual Beef Wellingtons with cherry cobbler for dessert for dinner as they are DH’s favourites. He’s making lunch so it will be a surprise.

I'll be working that day. I wouldn't be doing anything special no matter what. No valentine for many years. I do have a funny story, though. When I was married years ago and the kids were small, I tried to send some of those candy hearts with my then husband's lunch. I put them in with his sandwich and one of them was green. Lol. Apparently it got wet from the Mircle Whip on the sandwich. He came home that night with the evidence of me trying to poison him with rat poisoning. I still find it hilarious all these years later. I was laughing hard back then I'm pretty sure I was crying.

My grocery store sale ad has the normally $20 steak and lobster Valentines deal priced up to $25 this year to commemorate the pandemic I'm sure. At least they are throwing in a couple twice baked potatoes. Don't really need the TBPs as I already have dozens in the freezer that I made myself. I'll still pick up a couple of the packages when I brave a trip into town Saturday morning.

Im with Kathy....no valentine for me. I may make a special dinner for myself.

A long time ago, I saw that if you take two large prawns, head to head and tail to tail, it makes a heart, so I have used that for years. Might do a seafood risotto with the prawn/heart garnish.

Ever since my husband passed away 7 yrs ago I ignore Valentine's day as best I can. It just makes me sad.

Valentine's day and Mothers day are the two days of the year that I will not go out to eat. The restaurants are nuts. I have the grands on Sunday. I'm going to make some lasagna (if my store at home has gluten free noodles in stock) and a heart shaped chocolate cake with ganache.

I made Valentines gift bags for the grand kids I left on their porch earlier this week. No special food for us. My extra calories have been spent on ribs and cheesecake for DH's birthday.

I did buy a tub of Cinnamon Heart Jellies last week. But it's in hiding until we finish existing treats.

I love cinnamon heart jellies, wildchild! Though I rarely find them anymore. - they're always sold out so I think lots of other people like them, too.

That looks like fun, Amy. We don't really celebrate VD. I do usually make some sort of pink treat or craft (sugar cookies, dipped and sprinkled pretzels, painted stones, etc.) for my nieces who live nearby, and a girlfriend and I always mail each other the cutest animal cards we can find. And I trot out the now-vintage Valentine cards I received in elementary school in the early 70's and put them in a bowl on the coffee table. That's about it.

We don't really celebrate VD.

I can understand why! hahaha

"nekotish

A long time ago, I saw that if you take two large prawns, head to head and tail to tail, it makes a heart, so I have used that for years. Might do a seafood risotto with the prawn/heart garnish."

Like this?

dcarch

dcarch - yes, just like that.

I just made two giant chocolate chip cookies for our grandson in my 6-inch heart-shaped cake pans. Worked perfectly.

Nothing heart shaped, but I think Elery and I will have scallops, maybe risotto and some roasted vegetables of some kind. I'll probably make him a coconut cream pie for dessert, it's one of his favorites and he doesn't get it very often.

Mother detests scallops, dislikes rice in anything and won't eat vegetables, so she'll get soup and pie!

Annie

Yann will have snails and I'll have scollops to start, then confit de canard then nigella's white tiramisu.

Annie - Elery would have fit right in on Gilligan's Island. Mary Ann was always making Coconut Cream Pie. He could have it every day! lol I don't understand how someone could detest Scallops. They are a perfect little morsel of heaven on earth.

Too cold to grill out on Sunday so I'm going to do the lobster in the broiler and pan sear the steaks. Now that I have scallops on my brain I might have to sear some of those too since the stove will already have been splattered upon.

We've decided...

winter kale apple salad with a honey cider vinaigrette; deconstructed beef wellington...puff pastry, filet mignon, mushrooms, port wine demi glace with fingerlings and mixed veggies; key lime pie for me, tiramisu for him.

Edit: we're skipping the dessert and instead I'm making chocolate lava cake at home for 2...

Still deciding....but looks like lobster rolls, shrimp/avocado spring rolls. caesar or salad nicoise w/smoked salmon....or maybe leek/artichoke heart/feta puff pastry.

We're planning a somewhat special dinner: Lobster tails (with French butter) green beans almandine, crusty french bread and affogato for desert. Affogato is a scoop of ice cream with a fresh shot of espresso poured over the top. We first had it in Italy, and it's one of my favorites.

tvq1, your dinner sounds perfect to me.

I am in planning mode this morning. We picked up some filet mignon, which will be our main course along with asparagus. I would like to add a sauce and a potato dish. DH is requesting chocolate soufflé and DS wants molten chocolate cake. I'll make both - the molten cake is easy and can be a backup if the soufflé doesn't come out well.

I decided to go ahead and grill even with the snow storm and 1F temperature. I moved the Weber grill to the garage earlier this winter for just this situation. I can put it out on the covered back stoop.

Strip steaks, lobster tails, Teriyaki shrimp kabobs, and asparagus. All on the grill. Twice baked potatoes in the air fryer.

Snow cones for dessert!

Well SO has thrown a wrench into my food plans.

First, upon waking he declared himself too hungry to wait for me to cook breakfast, and asked me just to heat him up some leftovers. So there went my plan for that. He had chicken tacos. Not heart shaped. 😔 But I served it on a heart shaped plate,so I felt better about it.

Then, he asked me to make him some fish that I bought for SOME OTHER DAY, not Valentines day,so i made it with some rice. He usually only eats 2 meals a day so not sure my plan for the heart shaped pizzas will happen. Well, it will happen for me, as I do not eat fish so I will make myself a heart shaped pizza later. I'll make him a smaller one in case he wants a snack later or something....

What mess? Those look great! Crust looks perfectly crisp. They look the same size to me.

Yes. I decided just to make 2 of the same size because I didn't want to waste any dough. If he doesn't eat all of his I will!

aka Stacey_mb

Amylou, those pizzas look delicious!

In Va no special plans because of an ice storm over weekend and power issues in a lot of places. We didn’t lose power so I put a roast in oven for our evening meal. Cable and internet went out this afternoon so here we lay on the couches in the peace and quiet.

Chocolate lava cake for 2 was a success...I put it in the oven when we had our entree and it was done just as we finished. Yum!

Lava cake looks amazing as do the perfect heart shaped pizzas.

We ended up making filet mignon with cognac peppercorn cream sauce, asparagus and au gratin potato. Dessert was chocolate soufflé with crème anglaise.