{"id":970,"date":"2011-02-14T22:05:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T02:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=970"},"modified":"2011-02-14T22:05:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T02:05:32","slug":"valentines-day-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We often go over the top on meals for special occasions, but this year for Valentine&#8217;s we cooked a really nice meal that was extravagant in flavor, but not overwhelming in quantity or richness.<\/p>\n<p>Starting out was bruschetta with beans and caviar.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-971\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DSCN0937.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DSCN0937-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN0937\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-971\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruschetta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just white beans on toasted bread with onion, egg, and caviar.  In our case the caviar was salmon roe ($9 an ounce) and it was just dandy.  It&#8217;d be good with smoked salmon, or a tiny slice of anchovy too.<\/p>\n<p>Following that we had risotto with wild mushrooms.  Being it&#8217;s February in Indiana, the wild mushrooms were dried porcini and dried morels.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-972\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DSCN0942.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DSCN0942-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN0942\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-972\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wild Mushroom Risotto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was too anxious to eat it to get a good picture.  It smelled so good!  And tasted even better.<\/p>\n<p>Finally was the grandly named &#8220;Scented Cherries with Marquis du Chocolat.&#8221;  That was cherries cooked with a bit of ginger and sugar, served over what was essentially a chocolate cupcake.  Overblown name aside, ginger and cherries and chocolate worked together great.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_974\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-974\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DSCN0943.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DSCN0943-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN0943\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-974\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chocolate Cupcake with Cherries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Valentine&#8217;s Day 2011.  A very good day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often go over the top on meals for special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}