Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, in a townhouse on the MCLA campus in North Adams, an engaged couple did something for Valentine's Day that they never dreamed would still be a tradition nine years later.
They ate McDonald's and drank white zinfandel by candlelight.
Classy, right?
The part of that tradition that remains is the candlelit part. While we still eat at McDonald's on occasion, the meals we know how to cook are much more scrumptious. And as far as white zinfandel is concerned, well, let's just say that our tastes have matured a little since that evening.
Tonight we will enjoy our 9th annual candlelit dinner. We've enjoyed it at college, at our first apartment in Cummington, our next place in Huntington, and now for the fourth year at our current home. A few new faces have joined us at the table since that first dinner, and they love the candles. They seem awed by it, enough to make me consider doing it weekly!
Last year I made a special dessert in the crock pot that I am definitely making again tonight: Hot Fudge Cake! You can find the recipe here. For the record, I did not get vanilla ice cream to go with it. I consider most things vanilla to be a waste of calories (hooray- something sweet I don't like!). Instead I got Friendly's Vienna Mocha Chunk, that I may or may not have had a little of already.
Enjoy your valentine's day, whatever your traditions may be!
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