The Dinner Table

What to do when you want a really nice Valentine’s Day Dinner — but are also budget conscious? Well, you make your own dinner of course.

This year, we decided to cook our own meal instead of visiting The Gandy Dancer (which was a restaurant we visited almost a year ago). But again, this year we decided to splurge a little bit on ingredients, but also keep it much more economical than going out to an expensive, fancy restaurant.

The menu:

• T-Bone Steak for Fred (iron skillet)
• Salmon for Yeni (coconut crusted)
• Rosemary Garlic Potatoes
• Creamed Spinach
• Caesar Salad
• Dancing Bull Cabernet Sauvignon

Great dinner… and felt much better on the wallet. Plus — the food and atmosphere was better than anything we could have had outside our home.