My Fancy Valentine's Day Meal Plan (Um, This Might Be Hard!)

Imagine this:

You get to spend all day playing video games and messing around with circuit boards, while delicious smells of garlic, rosemary and carrot drift out of the kitchen. Then, your lovely wife lights a fire, places candles around the room, and puts on some music. Next, she serves you “Frenched rack of lamb, cut into finger-food lollipops, soaked in Port, caramelized on the grill, then topped with a fresh, biting sauce made from soft, sweet garlic and parsley,” along with garlic-rosemary-balsamic potatoes, salad, and carrot cake cupcakes for dessert.

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Oh yeah, and while you’re imagining this, pretend you’re a dude. My husband, specifically.

So, sound good?

It sounds pretty damn good to me! But after looking at these recipes, it sounds hard. Very, very hard to make for this culinary amateur, especially the lamb, which I’ve never made before.

Grilled Port Lamb Chops with Garlic Confit and Sauce Vierge "Persillade"
Glazed Rosemary and Garlic Potatoes
Carrot Cake Cupcakes

But you know what? I’m going to try it anyway! This is what I’m going to attempt to make for my husband this weekend for Valentine’s Day. It will be my most challenging cooking attempt ever, and hopefully everything will turn out good. But if not, I know my husband loves me enough to eat it anyway. Or order take out. But it can’t turn out much worse than pizza and TV reruns, which I think is what last year’s Valentine’s Day entailed (he was in charge of our plans last year).

So wish me luck, and I’ll be sure to report back next week on how these dishes turned out!