Valentine's Day

Let me start off by saying Happy Arizona Statehood Day! Definitely worth noting :) We had a fun day. Only three kids were in our Primary class today, so we sent them home on sugar highs due to some delicious pink funfetti cupcakes we made. The majority of the evening was spent in the kitchen working on our masterpiece dinner. Marcus made amazing Artisan No Knead Bread, and those pictures are about half way down. All the rest are the preparation of Penne Rustica, which turned out incredible! It was difficult to make, dare I say extremely complicated, but with some last minute tips from Mimi, we did it! Most of Marcus' comments after dinner praised the wine in the sauce, but hey, it was good. :)

This is only a fragment of the mess we had!

Saucin' up the chicken

Marcus' fancy bread right out of the oven

I'm not sure what this facial expression means in context with the bread...

the penne goin' in the oven

the table almost completed. p.s. the strawberry salad was way good too!

finally the timer went off

All done- hooray!

Just about ready to eat

...left overs. haha. Only the top Tupperware isn't Penne Rustica.

We'll definitely have to make this again sometime. Maybe when we're having around six other people over for dinner. We definitely had enough, as you could tell. So no mocking us, we made our impressive Valentines meal with complete success!