Valentine's

This has been quite the Valentine's Weekend. Pancho got in Friday afternoon and after sweetly driving me around downtown so I could do errands, we got straight to celebrating. He got me a deep-tissue massage (so excited), Toblerone chocolates, and these sweet flowers in a pink striped potter I can use once I've inevitably killed off the plant. (terrible, but true) I got him chocolate croissants from WS that are apparently out of this world amazing but due to the snow storm and UPS being royally incompetant, they are still sitting in a warehouse when they were an overnight air delivery. Probably no longer frozen after 5 days, so I'm a little miffed and will be on the phone to correct it very soon. But besides that little snafu, the gifts were superb.

Ok, so, Friday night we went to see Valentine's Day which has like a million famous people in it. It was verrrrry cute, I loved it, there were some really hilarious scenes that made my face hurt I was laughing so much. It was a packed theater and my guess is that there were no more than 10 guys. Ashton Kutcher, Jennifer Garner, and Emma Roberts were extra good. I liked seeing Taylor Swift but she plays the ditziest high schooler it was cringe-worthy. Highly recommend it.
Then we met up with some of Pancho's friends from Hopkins that now live in Philly and some of their friends from med school. Somehow I ended up very very drunk. By somehow, I mean, a long island and 4 beers. yikes. Needless to say, Saturday morning was rough. very rough. But we started watching some of the Oylmpics coverage and made chocolate chip cookies from scratch (I have such a chocolate monster of a boyfriend) and before I knew it, it was time for dinner.

Got dressed up (boots, black pants, black and white silk top) and we headed over to Center City to Bistrot La Minette, this adorable little French restaurant. The reviews on Yelp were all glowing and it ended up beyond my expectations. Started with this delicious apple, pear puree, cinnamon cocktail, wonderfully buttery and garlic escargot in adorable individual pots for each snail, and warm baguette slices. Pancho had terrine (chunky pate) and then orange-glazed duck. My main course was lamb stew with duck confit which was hearty, thick and like heaven in every bite. AND then, as if I could eat another morsel, we got pot de chocolate for dessert. Basically a little bowl of chocolate mouse/pudding with delicate butter cookies to dip in. Topped off with chocolates made in-house and some red wine, we were in food heaven. I love good food and every thing was authentic and served beautifully. Very very impressed. It was romantic and the definite highlight of the weekend.