I thought it would be fun to try an extravagant dessert I saw in an old Martha Stewart Living issue for a Valentines Day treat: Rocky Road Tart
Melting my chocolate for the ganache filling.
I decided to try some new recipes for our dinner as well. The main dish was another magazine find, Chicken Piccata. I had a sample copy of Cuisine magazine that had an article about making cutlets of different kinds of meats. I was excited to try it out. I had never found the trick for making chicken cutlets. Above you can see that I salt and peppered them and then coated them in flour before frying them in my skillet. Really, a very simple and delicious preparation.
Getting ready to pound my chicken pieces into cutlets. It worked beautifully. It's all in how you cut the chicken.
The sauce, with lemons and capers.
Topping my chicken.
I think it looks rather attractive for a festive meal.
I also had tried out a new recipe for a cauliflower and potato casserole. The creamy sauce on top had jarlsburg cheese melted into it and it was scrumptious!
We passed out a few little Valentines treats after supper. Amelia got some chapstick and some pencils.
The boys got some Chiclets gum and pencils.
4 comments:
What delicious food in this post! I bet that dessert was so good!!!
Wow! You really outdid yourself! That was splendid and a real Valentines Day extravaganza! Mom
Totally wonderful, Julie. I have such a dull kitchen. I need to do something about that for sure.
Now I need to go eat - lol.
Love to ya,
Kathy
Julie, I can't believe I missed out on that meal. If God brings us out there again you have got to make that chicken piccata for me.
Miss hanging out with you guys!
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