Sam and Eva's First Valentine's Day

Since this was going to be our first Valentine's Day together, we thought we'd do something to make it a little bit special. We started by getting each other some tasty heart-shaped treats :).

First up, Sam got me a delicious over-sized cookie from Millie's Cookies, in raspberry and white chocolate flavour (my favourite!) complete with cute message in icing. It was a totally delicious cookie experience, although it was so large, I needed a little help from my friends to finish eating the whole lot (on my last bit today, sadly) Defintely 9/10

Next, I baked Sam an old-fashioned Lemon Drizzle Cake, his favourite, with some white chocolate piped decoration. Despite the addition of the pink food colouring, the cake was extra lemony, and I always like to put a bit of a punch in the drizzle by adding a couple of splashes of limoncello if you have some spare. It really adds a certain je ne sais quoi!
Sam's comments: Delicious! 9/10

Of course we could not simply have just desserts to eat, so we started the evening with a romantic dinner out at the wonderful Barceloneta, our favourite local Spanish haunt, for some delicious Madeira style beef, fried goat's cheese balls with caramelised onion relish and spanish toritlla de patatas with chorizo and spinach. This was all accompanied by a delicious vegetable paella. Muy sabroso!

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!

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