Regardless, the day is an excellent day to make excessive amounts of sweets! The first Valentine's related sweet were just simple sugar cookies from here. You really can't go wrong with sugar cookies. I searched "World's Best Sugar Cookies" just for fun and it was very funny how many different recipes claimed that. These were very nomz, and fed our apartment, plus all the people in and out of it for about a week. This is a typical conversation around here: "What did you have for breakfast?" "Cookies. You?" "Yeahhh. Me too." Or this one: "I had seven cookies today!"
Rolling them in the sprinkles was fun. I was going to do them all solid colors... but then I got lazy. So i just mixed all the colors in with some sugar and rolled them in that. All in all, it made a nice plate!
On actual February 14th, my sweet boyfriend suggested we make chocolate mousse - my favorite dessert! My roommate had posted this recipe on my facebook a few days previous so we decided to try that. After my Le Cordon Bleu education in chocolate, I had a lot of fun picking out some delicious bittersweet chocolate from Central Market. BUT - I will confess - I am not a connoisseur of coffee or cooking with it. I enjoy it and drink it quite often, but I don't generally make my own. Or cook with it. The recipe called for espresso or strongly brewed coffee. But I put in a tablespoon of just coffee grounds. haha. I think it would have turned out more chocolate and less coffee if I had brewed it, but I still liked the taste! It was definitely a cooking adventure.
home made whip cream mmmmm.
the final beautiful products!
Also, my roommate made these chocolate covered strawberries that were too pretty not to photograph!!
She's a pro.
Dinner this week was nothing epic, just sandwiches. But I really do love sandwiches. If you have never been to scanwich, please go have a looksie! These were french bread, brie, parmesean, honey ham, sauteed onions, spinach and garlic. Anything with the combination of those last three on them is wonderful in my book. Anyway, I could eat sandwiches for most meals. They are a great invention.
Last, but certainly not least this week, was the celebration of Liz Day! This is not some narcissistic day I just declared to be my own. Remember when you were little and would write words on calculators like shell by typing in 11345 and turning it upside down? well, if you type in 217 and flip it, it says LIZ! Little nerd that I am got very excited, but never realized that 217 could correspond to the day February 17th until a few years ago. It's fun, because it's not a real holiday, but it is something totally happy and smile-making. I never had a good friend who shared my name to share it with until last year. This year, I was on campus for 13 hours - ick - but then I went over to her place and we made this! Can you say NOMZ??
This was a fun week. The next one will be very busy, so probably not any huge cuisine adventures, but we shall see! Have a good week!!
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