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Valentine's Day - Part II

Our Valentine's Day continues.  Who says you only need celebrate once? When you have so much love to spread, sometimes it takes a couple days to spread it. So, we continued our celebration last night at my sister's house. My brother-in-law hosted a fabulous dinner for friends and all us ladies were pampered by letting the men do the work.   However, my sister did do the beautifully set table.  Jim did a similar dinner for us last year that I wrote about  here .  After last year's fun, I was really looking forward to another evening of pampering. Like Barbara's table setting skills, I contributed a small bit by bringing my leftover  Valentine cookies .  I wrapped up five little bags of cookies to give everyone coming to the dinner. I had some leftover cookie dough so I made a few more cookies with a new cookie cutter I got but haven't ever used. It's a cookie cutter where you can change out the letters to make your own custom m...

Ploughman's Lunch

What do you eat after weeks and weeks of planning and preparing Christmas dinner and then you eat your Christmas dinner and are basically still satisfied the whole next day and don't feel like eating much?  Something light and healthful, that's what.  I've been watching the Food Network lately, particularly  The Barefoot Contessa  because I had bought her latest cookbook for a Christmas gift for my sister called Cook Like A Pro .  My sister already cooks like a pro, in my opinion, but she stated at Thanksgiving that she wanted Ina Garten's latest cookbook (Ina Garten is the Barefoot Contessa) so that was an easy gift shopping experience since her new cookbook is everywhere.  Now, I'm sort of hooked on her TV show.  Bruce even likes watching it.  I got my gingerbread making motivation by watching all the Christmas competitions on the Food Network; Christmas Cookie Challenge and Gingerbread Challenge. ha ha  I don't usually lik...