{"id":6792,"date":"2013-02-16T23:47:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T04:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=6792"},"modified":"2013-02-16T23:49:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T04:49:47","slug":"alternative-valentines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/alternative-valentines\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative valentine’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instead of a romantic dinner for 2, we had a family dinner – another couple, old friends, also empty nesters with grown children, and our Japanese exchange student. We ate Costco salmon with the maple syrup, soy sauce, and butter glaze<\/a> that I first made by scrounging through the cabinets at our airbnb lodgings for TIFF, and leftover hoppin’ John and greens gratin from New Year’s Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For dessert I made pomegranate juice gels, cut into hearts, and chocolate pie. Heike said the best thing about the pie was that it’s the type of pie that you can get in a completely ersatz version – cool whip and instant chocolate pudding – or much more homemade, like this one.<\/p>\n