Valentine's Day. Most either love it or hate it. Personally, I've always loved it because it gives me a 'real' reason to go above and beyond for my sweetie. So it's not really the commercialization I'm drawn to, but what the day actually symbolizes... even if it IS a Hallmark holiday!
With Valentine's Day being on a Sunday this year, Eric and I ended up with two special dinners, though that wasn't planned. Last year, we started a tradition of cooking a nice dinner together for Valentine's dinner. And though we planned that again this year, I ended up amping up the dinner the evening before, as well. It was just spaghetti, which takes minimal effort, so I took the extra effort to add some special details to make it a nice, romantic dinner. And he appreciated it a lot.
But tonight was the real meal. A local butcher shop, Goose the Market, had a Valentine's Day dinner special available - a surf 'n' turf meal for two. Eric found it on their website (he LOVES this place - it where we get all of our holiday meats) and asked if it sounded good. So that's what we were to cook together. Though we didn't end up doing too much of it together - he had most of it going when I arrived. Regardless, though, it was good and, as usual, the Goose provided an excellent start to a meal!
Hopefully next year we'll do better with the cooking it together - that's half the fun of the meal and the tradition. But it worked out fine this year since we ended up with two special meals. Not that we need a reason to make it a special meal, but great way to assure we spend time together, just the two of us.
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