Valentine's Day

The plan for Valentine's Day was to stay home and make a fabulous dinner to save some money. Then we remembered we had a gift card for a local steakhouse and decided to find a babysitter and go out. Since my husband had to work on Sunday we decided to go out Saturday night.

So Sunday while he was at work I decided to surprise him when he got home by making some of his favorites. This was our second vanetine's day dinner :)

Menu:
Stuffed Mushrooms
Italian Salad
Pizza Bianco with fresh tomatoes
Molten Chocolate Lava Cakes with homemade whipped cream
Chocolate covered strawberries

Decor:

i planned on getting out my wedding china and eating by candlelight, but we ended up in the living room eating on tv trays while playing with the baby. Oh well. 

Photos: Recipes to follow this week

Stuffed Mushrooms

Pizza Bianco with fresh tomatoes

Molten Chocolate Lava Cake

 

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Recipes will be posted over the next few days and linked back to this post! Hope you had a happy valentine's day!

Black and white brownie bites

Okay so this is a semi-homemade recipe. I usually dont like to use mixes to make things, but sometimes I just cant help it. When I can snag a box of brownie mix super cheap I buy a few to have on hand for when a chocolate fix sets in.

1 box of Duncan Hines Chewy fudge brownie mix
(using 2 eggs, 1/2 cup oil and 1/4 cup water as directed)
3/4 cup milk chocolate chips
55 pieces of vanilla (or white chocolate) candy disks

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Make brownie mix as directed
3. Mix in chocolate chips
4. Spray mini muffin pan with non-stick cooking spray
5. Spoon mix into muffin tin filling about 3/4 of the way
6. Bake for 18 minutes
7. Remove from oven. Press a vanilla candy on top of each brownie
8. Bake for 2 more minutes to let disk get melty
9. Remove from oven and transfer to a cooling rack

Makes 55 brownie bites

(try making these with different kinds of candy disks. I have used peanut butter disks, mint disks, chocolate disks. My husband loves these little bites. I like them because I feel like a piggy when I have 3... but if I were to eat a BIG brownie it would be way more than 3 bites)