canyonwalker: Cheers! (wine tasting)
[personal profile] canyonwalker
Today was Valentine's Day. Hawk and I put little stock in traditional expressions of it. It's a made-up holiday, anyway; a consumer event crassly promoted by greeting card companies, florists, and candy makers. That said, we try to do something a little special to mark the day, even if it's something we do often enough anyway, like go hiking.

This year Valentine's Day fell on a Monday, so we didn't travel anywhere. We almost didn't do anything out of the ordinary; but then I remembered this afternoon that I could cook something for dinner. I made ziti.

A dish of ziti ready to bake (Feb 2022)

I've been meaning to make ziti for a while. My last batch was in August 2020. I used to make it more often in my college student / grad student days. Maybe that was because with more people in the house it got eaten faster? Alas, that's the challenge with the ziti recipe: it makes 8 filling servings.

This time around I figured I'd cut down the portions, primarily by not using a full container of ricotta cheese. I'll use the rest of the ricotta making calzones. I used about 2/3 container (10 oz.) of ricotta here and scaled down everything else in proportion.

Valentine's Day dinner with baked ziti - and new plates! (Feb 2022)

If this were an everyday dinner I might just bake the dish of ziti and call it done. But since it's Valentine's Day we decided to go all out, matching it up with green beans and oven-warmed sourdough bread. Then there's the bottle of good red wine.... Well, I would've opened that Valentine's Day or no. 😉

Also in this picture you can see the new plates and bowls we bought this weekend. Yes, these are the plates we went to 8 or 9 different stores looking for. They're dark cobalt blue with light flecks.

Date: 2022-02-16 04:18 am (UTC)
sorcyress: Drawing of me as a pirate, standing in front of the Boston Citgo sign (Default)
From: [personal profile] sorcyress
The plates are very nice! Worth the adventure, I hope!

And gosh damn, that ziti looks _delicious_. Well done!

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