Happy Valentine's Day

Early in our marriage, Fred and I decided not to celebrate Valentine's Day with flowers or chocolate. Although I adore both things, flowers are too damn expensive during this holiday and chocolate I can do without right now. Besides a few weeks ago when we were at Mall of America, I found the Le Creuset Dutch Oven I wanted at Macy's and the best part about it was I got it for half of what I would have paid at either JC Penney's or the Kitchen Collage in the East Village.

Her is so pretty sitting on my stove......see....




Fred still about choked when the Macy's salewoman gave us the grand total of the purchase and this coming from the man who didn't blink twice at spending a fortune on our pots and pans 4 years ago.....WTH? Anyway, he's expecting great things to come out of that oven......which brings me to the next story that is quite amusing.

Superbowl Sunday.....I decided to break in our new dutch oven by whipping up a batch of turkey chili that day....to make a long story short, I guess I should have read the directions that came with the oven, because I burnt the chili.....how?? you may ask....too high of heat....DUH!! Food in dutch ovens should cook slow, not at a high temp unless you're searing meat....so lesson learned and one that Fred will not let me forget for a long time.