Valentine's Day Feast

On Valentine's Day we decided to stay at home, cook a great meal and enjoy something we both love - food and wine.

We decided to have a pasta dish, starting with bruschetta and a very tasty salad.

Our salad was mix greens, carrots, red peppers, goat cheese and pecans. This was a delicious start to the meal when we added the balsamic vinaigrette or the raspberry vinaigrette.

Then came time for our bruschetta. We have a soft spot for Italian food (you may hear this "soft spot" justification a lot with different types of food). We used a white French baguette with both pre-prepared sundried tomatoes and home-made roasted cherry tomatoes. We added goat cheese and red win balsamic vinaigrette on top. They turned out to be delicious - although we were both sold on the home-made tomatoes over the jar of sundried.

For our main course we decided to go with penne pasta, tomatoes, chicken and shrimp in an original tomato pasta sauce. Of course we had to add our salt, pepper and chili peppers (we both love hot food and chili peppers always makes the meal that much better). As you can see, we are not the greatest when it comes to portions of pasta, which mean great leftovers for the week.

It was a perfect way to spend Valentine's Day and the food was phenomenal. We shared a nice bottle of Wolf Blass Grey Label Shiraz. This wine was a perfect way to enjoy the meal. Again, when we cook together, we keep health in mind only using a little bit of oil on the tomatoes and bruschetta and cooking our chicken in balsamic vinegar instead of oil.