Kevin is the Valentine

Wine:
Chateau D’Aiguilhe 2003 Cotes De Castillon
The Lackey 2004 Shiraz
Saint-Veran 2004 Vieilles Vignes


Billy was off to Southeast Asia, and Kevin was alone for Valentine’s Day. We decided to invite him to dinner.

We made some old favorite comfort foods for dinner.

We started with a Caesar Salad from the Zuni Café Cookbook.

We then had Gratin de Macaroni a l’Ancienne from Paris Bisto Cooking by Linda Dannenberg. This is the BEST Macaroni and Cheese ever! It uses, Cream Fresh, Bacon, Prosciutto, Parmesan Cheese and Gruyere Cheese. We bought all of the cheeses and prosciutto from The Cheese Store of Silverlake. I love this dish! However, I probably should take an extra Lipitor!

Cathy was working, so I decided to bake Date Bars from the City Cuisine Cookbook for desert. All went well, until Cathy came home and noticed they looked strange. I was supposed to layer the oatmeal crust on the bottom of the pan, add the filling and then top with more of the oatmeal crumbs. Woops I put all of the oatmeal on the bottom and put the filling on top rather than in the middle. While the Date Bars were cooling, we went to some museums downtown. On the ride back we decided to throw the date bars out and start again. We then decided to try them first, if they were OK we wouldn’t discard them. We cut a small piece and tried it. It was good! We had a dessert.

Kevin arrived and we drank lots of wine and had a great meal, sorry Billy missed it!