So we usually go out on Valentine's Day to a fancy restaurant, but this year we decided to buy a couch, go see Coraline, then stay home and cook something nice. We didn't make it to Coraline but everything else went as planned. We made gnocchi with a crab/truffle sauce and it turned out really well if I do say so. Sometimes it's handy to live with a professional baker.
The gnocchi shapes weren't perfect because we didn't cook them immediately, nor did we flour the board they were resting on, and they stuck a bit. But they tasted great. A little bit of nutmeg in the gnocchi, and a little bit of truffle oil (plus a lot of cream) in the sauce.
Along with the gnocchi we had sugar snaps and the pea shoots from the farmer's market. We steamed the sugar snaps and then tossed them with the pea shoots at the last minute. So the pea shoots didn't really cook, just softened a bit. My favorite way to have sugar snaps is sauteed with a little butter and lemon juice, but the gnocchi & crab was so rich that we thought it would be better to keep the sugar snaps light.
Over dinner we watched The Gay Divorcee, my favorite Fred and Ginger movie, and then exchanged gifts. Nothing extravagant because, you know, new couch. Among other things, Georg gave me the most amazing t-shirt:
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