Monday, February 14, 2011
Valentine's Day Delights
This weekend I helped the woman plan and prepare our Valentine’s Day treats. It included lots of chocolate. Soon, the woman must go on a low oxalate diet which means no more chocolate for her. This is not her choice but rather the recommendation of her nephrologist (kidney doctor). So she’s determined to get her fill of chocolate before this new diet starts, probably sometime this week.
First on the list were chocolate peanut butter truffles (peanut butter is also a no-no on the low oxalate diet). I got to help cut them out into hearts and roses then dip them in chocolate. We asked the man to come join us, but for some reason, he wasn’t very in to making them, but he sure is into eating them.
These were really easy to make just melt the chocolate and peanut butter with sweetened condensed milk, shape and let chill before dipping.
These are the roses...
...and here are the hearts.
As you can see, we ended up with a lot of truffles.
In my opinion, for our first attempt at truffles, I think we did a swell job.
Next on the list; chocolate covered strawberries, a classic Valentine’s Day staple. We wanted to be a bit creative with our strawberry decorating, so we searched the internet for inspiration. We decided to try tuxedo strawberries. They looked relatively simple, definitely something we could handle. Umm, not so much. They were way harder to make. I'm not sure if it's because of us or the strawberries. The leaves kept falling off as we dipped them. We tried another approach; using a plastic prong to dip them. But the berries kept falling off the prongs. Still, in the end we managed to salvage some to look acceptable.
Of course, there are still the cake balls we made a week or so ago (to send to my lady) and froze some extra. So we’ll pull those out tomorrow to thaw.
These are just some little nibblers for tomorrow. The woman has intentions of making some kind of dessert for after our dinner. Whether or not it includes chocolate remains to be seen; she’s being pretty secretive about it so it will be a surprise.
The man insists the woman is doing too much, but, deep down, I know he enjoys all the special treats the woman makes him. He may be able to fool the woman, but he can’t fool the penguin.
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