I tried my very best to make this years extra special. I had found a recipe for an entire Valentine's meal and was so excited to try it. I began by making a buttermilk cake with a chocolate glaze. Well as I'm getting the ingredients ready to make the cake I guess I was slightly distracted but I put a whole pound of butter in the mixer when I only needed 1 stick! Luckily I caught that mistake before it was too late. Then I mixed the batter and poured it in the floured pans and then I remembered I forgot to add in a few more things in the batter to make the flour self rising flour...so I decided it will be alright and that we will just have a short cake. When the cake was finished it was very short but it still tasted fine. So the next day I went to make the chocolate glaze and it just would not thicken up and I was being impatient standing over the stove for about 20 minutes stirring all the while trying to entertain Garrett. Needless to say we just ended up having a buttermilk short cake with chocolate sauce. The Valentine special dinner misshaps had only just begun. I had marinated a pork tenderloin the night before and was ready to put it on the grill. I turned the grill on and then checked it about 5 minutes later and guess what! We were out of propane! I ended up putting the tenderloin in the oven to broil and gave up on making homemade creamy mashed potatoes and fixed a bag of steamable veggies. All in all the dinner still turned out nice, Tom and Garrett both ate it! But it sure did make a memory! Maybe I'll have better luck next time! :)
My lovely Valentine surprised me with chocolate covered strawberries from Sheri's Berries! What a treat!
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