valentine's dinner.

finally.

my dinner for the hubbs will be revealed. ha.

it was an all day process.

man, i wish every dinner could be like this. i love cooking. love it.

but it can't. maybe once a week i'll cook like this.

but the littles make it a bit hard.

in fact. on this night, in particular. we had our first {of three} coinciding, consecutive meltdowns for lil' miss & the bug. whew. just when i needed to be getting things on the skillet, etc. etc.

thankfully, the hubbs showed up right on que this night. and we put the kids to bed early.

that always works.

right?

nope. as we were enjoying our romantic dinner for two, we heard lots of jumping & squealing from his room. and finally, a door open & close. what?

turns out, the bug had found a few things that didn't "belong" in his room. charlotte's 'things'. that he had put there earlier in the day, mind you. he opened his door, threw out all the 'things' & then closed it and hopped back into bed. {he gets this OCD-ishness from his daddy, right?}

anyway. onto dinner.

i made this.

and this.

and this.

all of jeff's favorites. all i learned to cook last year after i got my PW cookbook.

whew. it.was.yummy. to say the least. i was full beyond full. and so was he. and everything was delish.

i swear, the pioneer woman makes me look like a super hero. every.single.time. except for the biscuits. i can't make the biscuits. yucky, yucky hard-as-bricks biscuits.

and then, for the finale.

creme brulee.

it's not so much that i love creme brulee, or that the hubbs loves it. 

it's just that my brother {again with the professional chef thing} gave me a kitchen torch for christams a few years ago. and i love the idea of using butane in the kitchen. don't you? so, this has been on my bucket list to do for quite sometime.

and i did it. 

and it was perfection. {with all day text-message help from the little brother, i might add}.

and that's all. it was a fabulous dinner for two {with a few interruptions}. ahhhh.... if only every dinner was like that, right?