Tuesday, February 14, 2012

My Kitchen or Yours, Happy Valentines Day!

This year we are spending Valentines Day at home. After Carter and I surprised Peter at work for lunch we headed home to cook. Carter fell asleep in the car,  after unloading  I donned my "M&M" apron and got to work because I had a limited time to get stuff done.

  
I decided to make a recipe that  I saw on Pioneer Woman called Spicy Stewed Beef with Creamy Cheddar Grits.  Click on the link to get the full recipe.  I really love following her blog, she has some hilarious stories and delicious food.   I had to tweak the recipe a bit because I have tried this one before and it was way too spicy for Carter and I.  

I am no food blogger but here are a few shots of the work in progress.

Ingredients assembled

Melt Butter.

Add the meat and cook for a minute.

Add everything else and let it cook for a couple hours.

Chopping veggies for the grits.


The result...... delicious!

I also did a dessert from scratch.  I found this recipe on Kraftfoods.com  for chocolate  cheesecakes for two.   I tweaked this recipe for the three of us and used some different chocolates.

Ingredients assembled.

I put Oreos into a baggie and got a little violent with them...... it was kind of fun.
  
I then added them to some melted butter for the crust.   I smushed the Oreo mixture into the bottom of cupcake liners.

Then I melted some chocolate and added in the cream cheese, sugar and Cool Whip.  I then loaded each cup with the fabulous fluff.

I put them outside on top of some snow to set.  It worked really well.  


I don't know about anyone else but I have a difficult time with cup cake liners always getting crinkly on me.  The cupcakes never come out nice and evenly cylindrical.   So my cheese cakes look nothing like the ones on the web site, but they tasted divine.




While everything else cooked and cooled, I made some mini-cupcakes for work tomorrow for our pot-luck lunch.  There is always amazing food at these.  Pot-lucks are the best.

 They look a little funny, but taste good.



Happy Valentine's Day to your and yours.
 
We had a great Valentines Day.  I hope everyone else did too.

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