Happy Valentine's Day

For Valentine's Day, Wyatt made me a charcuterie board! He researched what cheeses and meats that I could have and made a trip to Indy to pick up the goods from a local place, Smoking Goose. We did heat up my meat prior to me eating but this was nitrate and nitrite free unlike most of the meats we'd typically pick up from the grocery store for these. 

I gave Wyatt a Newcastle United themed gift with some pretty cute things for little miss to start learning all about the Premier League with her dad. It was so cute. I can't wait to see her in it and watch the two of them bond over it someday. 

Valentine's Day Charcuterie & Cheese Board

We decided to stay in for Valentine's Day again this year. We had some big purchases already this year and decided we'd just cook dinner and have a charcuterie and cheese board at home for a relaxing night at home.  I also made a little sweets board for us too.

I started by picking out a few cheeses to include on it.  Our favorite is Port Salut so I started with that and then grabbed an herb goat cheese that looked good and rounded it out by using some mini babybel cheese because they come in a fun red wax.  I had intended on creating an 'X' and 'O' in the wax but decided to just stick with 'X's as time was an issue for me. Once I had a few cheeses selected, I needed a couple of types of meat for the board. I kept it simple and bought prosciutto and some pre-sliced hard salami.  I added some berries, pickles, mustard, and crackers.  Wyatt was at a local bread shop that day for lunch and picked up a couple of their soft pretzels to add to the board too. It was the perfect little combination of food.

For the sweets, I wanted to stay on theme with Valentine's Day as much as possible.  I knew I wanted strawberry wafers because not only do I like them, they are pink and perfect for the theme.  It was actually difficult to find pink strawberry wafers but I snagged a small package at the gas station when I got gas that week. I also knew I had to get conversation hearts to add to it.  I found some heart shaped chocolate truffles and some salted caramel bites at Aldi that I snagged just for this.  I completed the sweets by added some strawberry fruit leathers and Reese's hearts!  Wyatt also bought me some cherry cordials from a local candy shop for Valentine's Day!