Happy House of Cards Day
February 14, 2014
I ran into an old acquaintance today at the store who asked what I was going to be doing for Valentines Day. I said we were going to make a potluck dinner — Jim: main courses, me: dessert — and watch a couple three episodes of season #2 of House of Cards. He asked how long we’d been married. When I said 17 years, he said our plans sounded more like those of a 30-year marriage, shrugged and walked away.
Huh.
Sounded pretty damn great to me. And it was.
Jim’s roasted chicken, roasted veggies, and rice were perfection. I tried two new desserts:
Martha Stewart’s brownies (cut in shape of hearts and dusted with powdered sugar):
And Martha Stewart’s shortbread dipped in chocolate:
Both were good. The shortbread especially so. Martha Stewart recipes are so fussy, and these were no exceptions. The brownies were more like super dense chocolate cake, rather than flaky, chewy brownies, but they were rich and elegant. Yes, for brownies, they seemed sophisticated. The shortbread was just ridiculous.. buttery, and perfectly shortbready. The chocolate part worked out well, too.
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