If you're anti-Valentine's Day... skip this post :) Here's a late post of what we did this Valentine's Day. If you read our blog last year... you might remember we went to the Monster Jam to watch monster trucks. While very cool... not something I want to do every Valentine's Day haha ;)
At work the teachers do Secret Valentines for a week. This pasta and a recipe was one day of my presents. When I saw the heart shaped pasta I fell in love :) So because of the darling pasta... and my 25 Things challenge of cooking dinner for Trent one night a week... I suggested we stay in and cook together. For me... this is highly dangerous and seldom happens.
The recipe was for Vodka Creme Pasta. It's a Rachel Ray recipe my Secret Valentine gave me. Shoot Rachel... you had me at vodka :) Can you guess which ingredient I already had on hand at home... hmmm???
Since cooking together does not happen very often we both had to wear our chef's aprons. I usually make a mess so this is mandatory attire in the kitchen for me.
Kiss the cook(s)! Sorry if you are gagging from lovey-dovey-cheesiness right now... I had to go there ;)
Here's my Valentine's centerpiece display. Another one of my 25 Things is to decorate for every major holiday. This was the extent of my love decor for February. The crepe paper balls (on top of the vases) took me two NFL playoff games to watch. Trent was just happy that this craft took so long so that I didn't talk my way through football games like I usually do ;) The flag things were extra wood dowels I had and scraps of scrapbooking ribbon- SUPER easy and free. And lastly the X and O frames were actually two gold mirrors we got in a white elephant Christmas gift exchange. Spray paint, a cute gift bag from my Secret Valentine that I cut up, and two purple letters gave me another FREE Valentine craft. Now I can't decide if St. Patrick's Day counts as a major holiday I have to decorate for?? Any suggestions?
The vodka creme pasta in all its glory... if you look closely you can still see the pasta held its shape as little hearts. I loved it!
The finished spread. I highly recommend the recipe... if I can do it... anyone can do it!
At work the teachers do Secret Valentines for a week. This pasta and a recipe was one day of my presents. When I saw the heart shaped pasta I fell in love :) So because of the darling pasta... and my 25 Things challenge of cooking dinner for Trent one night a week... I suggested we stay in and cook together. For me... this is highly dangerous and seldom happens.
The recipe was for Vodka Creme Pasta. It's a Rachel Ray recipe my Secret Valentine gave me. Shoot Rachel... you had me at vodka :) Can you guess which ingredient I already had on hand at home... hmmm???
Since cooking together does not happen very often we both had to wear our chef's aprons. I usually make a mess so this is mandatory attire in the kitchen for me.
Kiss the cook(s)! Sorry if you are gagging from lovey-dovey-cheesiness right now... I had to go there ;)
Here's my Valentine's centerpiece display. Another one of my 25 Things is to decorate for every major holiday. This was the extent of my love decor for February. The crepe paper balls (on top of the vases) took me two NFL playoff games to watch. Trent was just happy that this craft took so long so that I didn't talk my way through football games like I usually do ;) The flag things were extra wood dowels I had and scraps of scrapbooking ribbon- SUPER easy and free. And lastly the X and O frames were actually two gold mirrors we got in a white elephant Christmas gift exchange. Spray paint, a cute gift bag from my Secret Valentine that I cut up, and two purple letters gave me another FREE Valentine craft. Now I can't decide if St. Patrick's Day counts as a major holiday I have to decorate for?? Any suggestions?
The vodka creme pasta in all its glory... if you look closely you can still see the pasta held its shape as little hearts. I loved it!
The finished spread. I highly recommend the recipe... if I can do it... anyone can do it!
Ok, even though I don't love Vday, I love the heart shaped pasta! Cute!!
ReplyDeleteAlso, instead of decorating for St. Patty's, you could just stock your fridge with beer and pick up some green food coloring. That totally counts :)