Valentine's 2010

There's nothing like giving a loved one a dozen Roses, maybe two dozen, a box of chocolates, a teddy bear,  and a Valentine's card on February 14th every year.  Who cares if it's typical! I don't care.. Yeah I did it.. but my plan was to have it delivered at my GF's work on that Friday the 12th but they never got delivered!!  NEVER ORDER from 1-800-proflowers.  Those bastards are unreliable! The order came on Monday the 15th, wtf! I thought I'd like to share that with you guys.

Moving forward.. This year's romantic Valentine's evening meal was going to be ARROZ CON POLLO.  Wondering what restaurant huh?? well no "new" restaurant this time because my GF and I were the chefs! Arroz Con Pollo is one of my favorite Cuban dishes so I decided this was going to be our grub for Valentine's.  What made Valentine's evening special was that it was the NBA 2010 All Star game!!!!!!

We started cooking about an hour before tip-off and already I was excited about how our dish was going to turn out.  To be honest, of all the dishes my GF and I have cooked, this was probably the most intimidating one to me because the whole recipe looked overwhelming.  But I sorta relaxed the night before after we bought all the stuff we needed to make this dish.

So finally we finished cooking around the end of the 1st quarter.  HAPPY VALENTINE's MEAL!

Arroz Con Pollo

Looks like a Paella huh? Wroooong! This thing was freakin good!!! But we both agreed that it needed a little bit more salt, so next time we make this dish for you guys, were gonna take care of that.  I wished I used a bigger pot because I kept thinking the rice was going to cook and overflow the pot but everything worked out great.  My GF and I ate so much while watching the NBA All Star Game.. it was awesome.  We both felt like a King and Queen.  Even my parents loved it!

Here's a view from my first plate, sorry about the quality because this was taken from my iPhone.  But dizzamn look at that!!

The Arroz Con Pollo dish cooked by us would go down as one of our best thus far.  More of our cooked dishes to come in the future..