Looks wonderful (though I can't get too excited about stew either). I make (or used to make.. haven't in ages) a roasted strawberry frosting that looked a lot like the one on your cake! Enjoy your evening!

How I am celebrating Valentine's Day? I am going to be working well into the night supporting my team to get ready for a demo tomorrow. I am not happy about it... in fact, I am quite annoyed. The 11th hr scramble could have been avoided easily. I will share a cocktail with SO (over the phone) at the end of the night.

roasted strawberry frosting sounds really nice; when your fire drill is over and you have time I'd love the recipe

We exchanged cards this a.m. and plan on going out to lunch on Fri to celebrate...our favorite restaurant is only open for lunch on Fr and Sat and we much prefer lunch to dinner. But we got you beat for dinner tonight...rice 'n' beans! Maybe I'll put extra cheddar on it! :)

Your flowers are beautiful!

I secretly left a card and candy at my Dad’s house, can’t wait until he gets home. He won’t be expecting that at all. :)

I ordered my DD a new food processor. She just got it (texted me) and was very excited. They’re vegan and love to try new recipes.

Mtn, those flowers are so gorgeous.

ETA: DH just came home with these — lots of Easter lilies ready to bloom!

Lovely flowers. No celebration today, but two friends are joining me for a champagne brunch this weekend.

BTW, I heard on NPR the other day that 2/13 is the day married guys take their girlfriends out for dinner and save 2/14 for their wives!?!

Wait, the girlfriends get dinner out, too?

Call the stew Bœuf Bourgignon and serve a nice beaujolais with it!

Our store used to carry a nice single layer cake, they called it cake for two but our family of four found it perfect. Now that we ARE just two, I wish they would bring it back!

We are having steak (splitting it, it’s good size), baked potato (splitting that, too!) and my favorite side, Stouffer’s spinach souffle (we will split it, but only because I love him. I could easily eat one for dinner myself.)

Nada. I’m actually sitting here at 5:55 PM searching for a recipe to make. With our anniversary January 15th and both our birthdays just last week, we’re kind of celebrated out. Plus, we ate out a lot while on our recent trip to Oklahoma. Not to mention DD and her BF both are recovering from some nasty flu. And then DS ended up admitted to a hospital yesterday up in Colorado where he lives, with acute infectious hepatitis. So he’s in isolation and can’t have visitors for a while. That, and the fact that our master bathroom has been torn apart due to a major water leak disaster for many weeks now, with workers here from 9-4, M-F has made me a bit out of sorts. I’m sorry. I’m sounding like a real downer. But, I do hope that all of you are having a really nice Valentines Day ❤️

OMG, Lynn. Sounds like a good night for cereal, LOL! Hope everyone is better soon and good luck with the leak.

Hugs, Lynn! I hope everyone is on the road to recovery and feeling better soon. ❤️

Happy Valentine's Day!

We ticked a Michelin-star restaurant off my bucket list on Saturday (so good)! We ate Superbowl mess on Sunday. And my bday was Monday. So, cake and another dinner out. Plus, evil people sent me my favorite cookies and candy for my bday. Too many food treats!

Without really thinking it through, I made one of my resolution recipes for tonight. (My New Year's resolution is a new recipe every week.) It's green chile and chicken stew. Not very romantic. I do have molten chocolate cake for dessert.

Lynn, you have had a rough 2024, hope all is behind you soon.

We don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day - on Feb 14 we celebrate Stroke Recovery Day. DH had a serious stroke on 2/13/13 but fully recovered and was out of the woods 24 hours later following TPA administration. So we always celebrate his recovery on Valentine’s Day by going out for dinner somewhere we never or rarely go. This year was easy since we’re in SC and lots of places we haven’t been to yet.

Happy Birthday, Dee! It sounds like you've had a wonderful week!

Mtn, I will share the "recipe" in the next few days but you aren't going to be happy lol.. I am often a lot more carefree when cooking than most people. I wing it. But I know the first time I made it ... and the recipe I used then.... and I know my technique. I will certainly share that. Also, the next time I make it, I will keep track of the ingredient amts. Sorry!

cards from us to each other, dog cards from the dogs to us!

((((Lynn)))

Gosh, @LynnNM, sorry you are having a bad time of it right now. How nice, though, that your workers don’t start until 9 a.m. My crew starts at 8 a.m. and would really like to start at 7 a.m., but I said no to that.

Belated happy birthday wishes to you @deegw.

How wonderful to be able to celebrate a full recovery from a stroke for more than a decade, @3katz4me!

Gosh Lynn, so sorry to hear about your kids’ illnesses, especially your son‘s. And your bathroom! When it rains, sometimes it typhoons 😕

We had a lovely evening out with dinner and dancing for our 43rd anniversary today. DH had a nice filet (he was raised on a cattle farm) and I had pork tenderloin with a pomegranite reduction and pom seeds and both were delicious. Dessert was cake with a layer of sponge on the bottom, a tart raspberry gelatine layer and a layer of pistachio custard on the top, very light and wonderful. Potatoes were also v good and the spinach with pine nuts was perfect. No alcohol (Lent began today) but dancing and good live music. I wore my red taffeta Christmas skirt and red suede heels and DH looked especially fetching in his ”uniform” (khaki pants, white button down, navy blazer and saddle oxfords with argyle socks) with a red and white striped tie for the occasion. My favorite couple was also at the club when we were and they danced up a storm— both in their eighties. At the end of their last dance he dipped her and they shared a big kiss. I was worried he would drop her but he didn’t! I pray DH and I are still dancing into our 80’s.

Happy Valentine’s Day to all! We have our family Valentine Dinner this Saturday and the whole gang will be here 🥰

We are in Austin, TX. Had a nice dinner out and then dessert at our hotel.

KSWL, how wonderful is that, both you two and them!

Oh my DLM, so sweet

Kenji's beef stew

Incredibly delicious. I need to make it again.

Valentine’s Day *and* Ash Wednesday. Candy hearts with REPENT, U R DUST.

DLM has the best date!

I had a special early Valentine Day yesterday with my 3-month old granddaughter and another special Valentine Day today with my 4-month old grandson. Tonight is gym night with my trainer and training group. DH? - what DH? :)

Lynn - I hope your family recovers quickly and life starts to go a little more smoothly for you.

Grandchildren are Vallentines from the future ❤️ That love is indescribable. Bfenton and DLM, congratulations to you both!

My youngest had a lacrosse game. They won with an appropriate score of 2-14! He went out with the team to celebrate, and DH and I stopped for Mexican (and margaritas) on the way home. My plan was to celebrate with baked ziti and salad tonight, but the basketball team has made it to the state playoffs, and I know my son wants to go to the game, so I’m going to push the ziti to next week and give them their (small) gifts at some point today. DH gave me 100 stems of these lovely roses that look like ranunculus or peonies. The arragement doesnt look as wonky in real life. There are more on the kitchen table just beyond these and in the living room and family room!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Those are beautiful Nini!

Oh Lynn, so sorry to hear of all your issues. I hope everything and everyone get back to normal quickly!!

eld, porkandham, jilly, love the flowers

dog cards? LOL

We had a nice, early dinner at my favorite Italian restaurant and I had some lovely cedar plank sea bass. We shared dessert. Then came hime and exchanged cards.

Lynn, so sorry your kids are sick and you are dealing with upheaval dealing with the water leak. No fun for sure.

DLM and blfenton had the best of times but everyone had some memorable celebrations and love.

I had a special early Valentine Day yesterday with my 3-month old granddaughter and another special Valentine Day today with my 4-month old grandson.

How did I miss this news?

So nice to read about everyone's Valentine's Day. Congratulations to the new grandmothers! We are in Palm Springs. Got here yesterday afternoon and celebrated last night at a really fun supper club, Nice dinner and great Rat Pack inspired show. We're staying at a beautiful MCM Airbnb and have booked some Modernism Week tours. Maybe I'll spot Lars somewhere!

We decided against going out or takeout and I saw that one local store was promoting surf 🦞 and turf 🥩 so we cooked at home which was very nice and relaxing. I never cooked a lobster tail before. Cooked in the oven 10 minutes.

Lynn sorry to hear about the illnesses.

(DLM, I looooooooooooove your hair.)

That lobster tail looks so good! (Everything else does, too.)

I’m waiting on the Cousins Maine Lobster truck to come to town — we love their lobster rolls. :)