It's been a long week here at our house and Valentine's Day is a bright pink light I'm focusing on and hanging dearly to! So I'm having a little Valentine's Day interlude here and savoring the excuse to celebrate love (of all kinds) and eat lots of chocolate today!
We'll be starting the day with some heart-shape buttermilk pancakes (recipe here). I formed the rough heart-shapes by placing the pancake batter into a piping bag and piping out the shapes onto the griddle. In all likelihood, these will hit the table with a heart-shaped dollop of chocolate hazelnut spread in the middle.
I plan to make pasta with lobster and shrimp for dinner at home with my fellas tonight. For dessert, I made chocolate covered ice cream hearts (recipe and idea inspired by the Food Network). A small word of warning...as with most ice cream projects, it's never quite as easy as it sounds or looks. It's a reminder that ice cream melts, and melts very quickly. In other words, it gets messy fast.
