Valentine's Day

What a weird holiday. Is it just supposed to make people look forward to SOMETHING since it's to frickin' cold to do anything else?? Restaurants are always soooooo crowded...flowers are soooooo overrated & just die anyway...men usually have a hard time picking out jewelry...so I told Casey I would just like a steak/shrimp dinner at home & a cake from Cold Stone. What a guy...I got EXACTLY what I asked for! Casey made steak, popcorn shrimp, corn & baked potatoes for dinner & then we snarfed down a cold stone cake with red velvet cake & cake batter ice cream. DELISH!!! I was actually slightly disappointed in the ice cream cake. I expected nothing but perfection from the Cold Stone Creamery & it isn't perfected quite yet. Good...but I need to sample other flavors before I put in my full verdict.

I got Casey a T-Shirt & a big Reese's heart & Caleb got a tiger flashlight that roars. He loves it. Caleb got me a cute stuffed teddy bear & some cheesecake Hershey kisses & got Casey some regular mini Reese's. Anyone notice that Casey might like Reese's??? Caleb also got a bag of mini teddy Grahams from my mom & dad & a toy semi from Casey's mom & dad.

I really have nothing new going on in my life...so I thought I'd show you something that I do to make cooking not seem like such a hassle sometimes. I HATE chopping up onions. They are good to add to ground beef, soups, some casseroles & I don't add them because I hate cutting them. One of my sister's neighbors actually gave me this idea....but I will buy a bag of onions (much cheaper than buying them individually) and chop them all up in my food processor & separate it into a bunch of different Ziploc baggies & freeze them. Your fridge/freezer does smell like onions for a few days - but it goes away and I haven't noticed the onion taste getting into any other food. Hope this helps someone!