I'm cooking "anti-valentines" day dinner for my Mom, sister and I (all single). I think I'm going to do Mushrooms on toast for the entrée, filet mignon on a bed of garlic mashed potatoes served with steamed asparagus and a dark chocolate mousse with strawberries dipped in chocolate. Woot!

Here in Ontario Canada Monday is our Family Day. Another busy weekend for us too. Too many things to celebrate!!

Will be a Chinese-style Valentine's Day for me this year.

i am making a chocolate cream pie with a graham cracker crust as a surprise for my husband on valentine's day. i don't know yet whether we're going out for dinner or making it. i'm 7 1/2 months pregnant, so just getting the pie made will be a feat unto itself! if i do make dinner it will probably be steak au poivre with a brandied cream sauce, brown butter orzo 'risotto', and greens, or i'll be too tired and we'll go out. either way, the pie will be delicious!

I'm making red velvet cupcakes (from Joy the Baker blog/Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook) for a girls V-day party.

i'm celebrating valentine's day early tonight with a home cooked meal for my man...
http://exclusivegenerator.blogspot.com/2010/02/surprise.html
all made with love...........

warm fennel & mache salad with meyer lemon, garlic and chili oil, served with a fried egg on top.

It is also the NBA all-star weekend...if anyone is into that kind of thing:)

STUFFED ANIMAL SUSHI!!! Omigawd... WHERE DO WE GET THESE???/

:)

We are going to make filet mignon, yukon gold mashed taters & broccoli for V-day. It will be low key since our wedding anniversary is next week. Still need to figure out what I am going to make for THAT.

KrapArtist - my husband got the sushi for me at: http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/c4a6/

mmmm chocolate

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/food/fl-valentines-ss-r5-021109-20100210,0,6171676.story

I'm living in Shenzhen, China right now so we are celebrating Chinese New Year!!!! I can't wait to help my mom out in the kitchen (she doesn't trust me alone in there for such an important meal!). <-- btw, I'm 14

Having a bbq at the beach tomorrow! Making grilled chicken caesar pizzas. Just gone done making the dough, yum!!!

Last weekend I made Apple Buttermilk Pancakes.

This weekend, I'm planning on making panna cotta for the first time in my life, roasted tomato soup and will attempt Daring Bakers challenge (shh, can't tell you what it is!).

I just finished making chocolate covered red velvet cake kiss thingies. From this site. I made them last year, and totally effed up on the chocolate coating. Did better this year, but I passionately hate trying to dip these things in chocolate--eventually gave up and used a spoon to cover them.

Can I beg for a 'how to coat things in chocolate' post?

Mm, but there was french onion soup for dinner. The Olympic opening ceremony was really nice. (I watched while coating my fingers in chocolate.) I also picked up some beef short ribs today, so there will be kalbi sometime soon.

@kakugori- wow! that is one ambitious project! Props. :)

If you've got a steady hand- (I bet this is what you did anyway) put a kiss on a fork in your left hand over the double boiler of chocolate- spoon over, then transfer kiss on fork to cookie cooling rack on cookie sheet (to catch the drips).

Those look seriously good though. yumm.

Last night I made meatballs & they were tasteless :( The meat had absolutely no flavor at all. Glad I didn't waste my time to make home made pasta....

I have a loaf of no knead bread in it's 2nd rise on the counter for tonight's dinner. Not sure what I'll make for the main... maybe roast chicken in milk. Yummy & very easy.

Valentine's/ CNY dinner- tbd.

Happy cooking everyone!

Take out pizza tonight...tomorrow... baked brie and baguette, mesclun salad, linguine with lobster sauce and chocolate fondue with strawberries, bananas and ladyfingers for my honey and me.

The BF's parents are hosting dinner tomorrow, we have a birthday, an in-town visit from family, and a goodbye-to-Australia-for-a-year holiday weekend :) So...roast turkey w/ all the fixings. Can't wait! Was excited that I had stashed a bag of cranberries in the freezer, perfect for the occasion. Tonight is either low key dinner at home or at my Dad's restaurant (hoping to avoid the Mardi Gras madness, STL is second to NOLA in terms of craziness). Tomorrow I have a feeling I'll be eating pancakes!

I work for a florist-I don't think I'll be doing any cooking this weekend......

At some point this weekend, I'll be slow-cooking a pork shoulder roast and roasting a bunch of veggies. I've just discovered my love of parsnips, so I'm excited to include them in the mix. I'm also going to make soup (maybe split pea?) for my lunches next week and I'm going to make a nice garlicky batch of pot beans to get a jump on next week's dinners. And though I'm not cooking it, I'm really looking forward to the beef stroganoff that my brother is making for me and our mom tonight.

Maybe a bit too ambitious, but duck cassoulet and heart shaped chocolate linzer cookies!

For Valentine's, we're just making our usual things for each other--cupcakes and tomato soup. Tonight, though, we're getting together with friends to break out little jars and tins of fancy food that we all buy when we travel and then hoard and never use. Can't wait.

We started marinating a pork shoulder this morning before heading to work, so depending on how late we get home tonight, that will be dinner.

and we're going to take off Monday and stay at home and be lazy (with possible cooking).

we did a countertop renovation this past week and our kitchen is just nuts! We've been living off of things like take-out, taco truck burritos, and store roasted chicken--it's been fun, but I'm ready to clean out the mess soon and cook anything--even home-made scrambled eggs would taste divine after a week of eating out!

After an exciting afternoon of Avatar, I need something simple...Simple Roast Chicken. I been buying supermarket birds at the unbelievable price of $3.99 each, but decided to spend 2X as much for my home version. How I wish my 50s-era Hot Point electric oven with Rota-grill still had its parts...It works, but as the second home owner, I do not have the requisite pieces...

made brunch today for a few friends:
chilaquiles
black beans
green poblano rice

it was delicious!

I just made Steak Diane and homemade Caeser Salad... and Friday night was prime steak with a red wine reduction and potato gratin. I'm practicing for a culinary final tomorrow and am going to need a red meat detox!

PS - dessert was chocolate pudding and chocolate souffles. Yummmmmmm....

Instead of the usual crab bisque or cakes I made risotto for the first time. I used onion, aborio, garlic, olive oil for some of the butter called for, boxed broth, parmesan, crab and some little frozen peas, (not having asparagus on hand). It was too dense and goopy but we thinned it with lemon juice and more wine and were very pleased with the result.

I made some beet risotto a few days ago in the Valentine's day spirit - this morning I'm cooking up some bacon from my CSA share, produced in my husband's hometown of Hamburg, PA!
http://coldcerealandtoast.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/beetrisotto/

Going out tonight! But made cinnamon rolls from heavenly smitten kitchen for breakfast this morning-- they really didn't take long, and I let them rise last night and then fridged them so this morning, just turned on the oven and 30 minutes later...

http://smittenkitchen.com/2009/04/cinnamon-swirl-buns-so-much-news/

Reading about risotto, came across the beautiful blog, "Our life in Food,' and made their leftover risotto/crab panko crusted fried cakes and loved it. So light and crunchy.
Have been using the oven to warm up and keeping a supply of slowly baked sweet potatoes. Thanks for that tip, Kitchn, I had fallen into microwaving them and not even liking them anymore. Made a gingery orange sweet potato souffle with the crab cakes. Best Sunday brunch ever.

Roast chicken, sausage stuffing, and spinach salad: this was the hubby's Valentines day request.

I'm making a retro vday meal for the hubby-to-be: shrimp cocktail, mushroom bourguignon, and pineapple upside-down cake.

I worked on learning to make souffle, and discovered an easy and fabulous recipe for mexican chocolate souffle:
http://theweekendgourmande.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/kitchen-firsts-mexican-chocolate-souffles-for-two/

i did alot of cooking this weekend... with one failure though.

friday night we went out for our valentines dinner...wanted to avoid the crowds. I had the most delicious veal osso buco...YUM!

Saturday i attempted to make red velvet whoopie pies but they came out flavoreless. I was SO bummed because they were alot of work. oh well... i made a tiramisu instead to take to a chinese new year party on sunday (it was consumed with much delight!)

for dinner saturday night I put a pork shoulder in the slowcooker that I overed with southwest spices and some simple salsa. Pulled it apart with two forks when it was done and made some simple tacos with coleslaw on top. YUM

Sunday i made pulled pork breakfast hash with eggs...YUMMY.

Sunday afternoon we went to a Chinese Year celebration at my friend's parents house and it was AWESOME. I made pork dumplings from scratch ... so fun! DH had his fill though so it's going to be a bit before we make them on our own anytime soon.

Yesterday i made a big pan of simple sicilian style soup ...boil chopped cauliflower and brocoli, drizzle in some EVOO, salt and pepper and a cheese rind. cook some pasta on the side and mix together in serving bowl (I don't like to cook my pastas in my soups because if I have leftover the pasta abosrbs all the liquid and it gets mushy).

amazingly...we have no leftovers in the fridge