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Valentine's Day

For V-day, we did our favorite thing: we stayed home, cooked, and drank wine. For dinner, we made panko breaded shrimp with a bit of fresh ginger and cilantro in the breading. This recipe was featured in Cooking Light magazine and it was my idea of the best thing ever while I was laying on the couch reading magazines and eating pudding, recovering from wisdom teeth surgery. Anyway, the shrimp went over a bed of orange-scented cous cous that also had some ginger, cilantro, green onions, and toasted almonds in it. As if that wasn't enough, it was topped with an orange juice reduction featuring more cilantro, ginger, mayonnaise, and herbs. It was the best thing we've ever made. The brightness of the orange and ginger along with the green of the cilantro and onion were like laying in fresh cut grass on a sunny summer day.



For dessert, we did a chocolate soufflé which turned out really well and tasted great with Haagen-Daas vanilla ice cream plopped right down in the center of the ramekin.



For flowers, we got a bouquet from the florist who is doing our wedding. I was drawn to his work the first time I saw it because he twisted spirals from metal wire and included them with his arrangements. Here is something along the lines of our wedding flowers which will be deep red roses along with copper spirals (and this arrangement also inspired our invitations which Austin's graphic-designer mom will be creating).

posted by Kelly @ 3:46 p. m.