Kelli can (kinda) cook!: Pre-Valentine's Day Valentine's Dinner

I LOVE YOU ALL! First and foremost, and thank you for loving ME enough to click on this link & read my attempts at cooking or just read me rambling on about nothing or look at my photography skills (or just scan over my sarcasm too, that works).

Since my man & I are having a mini staycation/5-day weekend home, I decided to surprise him with dinner last Thursday, since I was off & he wasn't. I hit up the dollar store & bought cheesy decor. Drove down to the airport & shoved a balloon bouquet in his car and a little present- a card saying "I love you" and a fork wrapped up saying "you'll need this later" (hey, I'm a pharmacy student for a reason!). At home, I decorated the apartment door, and then strung up a banner inside of the door. I got pictures printed off at Walmart of him & Jethro & I and trimmed them into heart shapes. I then taped them to streamers & taped the streamers onto my fan to hang down as decoration. Covered the table, made a heart bouquet, and bought cheap plastic heart plates & bowls.

AND there was food, of course! I tried to cook a nice & easy meal (as presented below), and then lit candles, dimmed the lights, set the table, dressed up, and greeted him with a kiss! And he even ate my cooking! so that was the most successful part of the night, lol.

Here's my little made-up recipe for pasta I threw together-simple but yummy.

Ingredients:
-1 package of Buitoni ravioli (or whichever noodle variety you are feeling like consuming)
-1 jar of traditional Prego sauce
-1 jar of 4-cheese alfredo sauce (I use Classico brand)
-dash of olive oil
-1 bag of frozen peas
-1 green pepper
-1 yellow onion/Vidalia onion
-shredded 6-cheese blend (or Italian blend, or parmesan, or mozzarella...white shredded cheese)
-any spices you may like

Directions:
-Boil ravioli/pasta, drain
-Chop up green pepper & onion into larger chunks
-Throw pepper, onion, and 1/3 bag of peas (or however many you like) and dash of olive oil into pan on the stovetop, saute a minute or two, then add in the full jar of Prego and 1/2-2/3 jar of alfredo sauce

-simmer sauce until heated thoroughly, add in 1 cup of shredded cheese & stir until melted into sauce

-pour sauce into noodles & mix well

-serve that pasta up & indulge! I put some on plates, and garnished with some more cheese because if you know me, you KNOW I love lots of cheese :)

awesome heart plate, right?

Tried to be all romantic and bought a tube of Pillsbury garlic breadsticks then shaped them into hearts & baked- yes, went all out cooking with the home-made stuff, right? But I gotta say, they tasted pretty good too!!!!