Cancel Your Reservation: Valentine's Day Dessert

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Welcome to Cancel Your Reservation. This is a collection of recipes that I have cooked or baked and want to share with you.

First - let me say, I do not like to cook. I don't get a relaxing feeling while chopping veggies, or strolling the aisles of the grocery store. I would much rather make a dinner reservation and eat out with my husband and enjoy being waited on, and relaxing at the end of the day. But lets be real, eating out all the time gets expensive, and its not the best for the waistline or our health, even though there are many healthy alternatives available now when eating out.

So, with that being said, I get in the kitchen after work and cook. I don't like it, I'd much rather clean up and do dishes after the meal than prepare the meal. The kitchen isn't my favorite room of the house. To give you some background, I burn things when I am cooking. ALOT. I can't tell you how many times I have set the fire alarm off in my house. I also burn myself while cooking, not on purpose, but I'm clumsy in the kitchen - and messy. So, if you are like me, and like to eat out, more than you like to cook, please read over these recipes and try them! Just get in your kitchen - even if it is a few nights a week. The recipes are easy to prepare, and they taste good! They just might make you cancel your reservation - and eat in! Not all of the time of course, who are we kidding :) - but more often.

Just a note, I did not come up with these recipes - no - I don't have that gift that some people are blessed with that allows them to come up with amazing recipes and flavors that compliment each other. Sources for the recipes will be noted.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Valentine's Day Dessert - Chocolate & Strawberries

Happy Valentine's Day! I don't know what goes together better for this special occasion than chocolate and strawberries. I made this simple and delicious dessert for my husband for our Valentine's Dinner celebration and he LOVED it. I found the heart shaped chocolate shells (white chocolate and dark chocolate) at World Market. They came packaged with dark AND white chocolate shavings too! Here is the recipe for this yummy dessert. I made up the chocolate filling recipe, and don't have an official name for it, so I am going to call the filling "Chocolate Goodness" :)

Recipe:
Heart Shaped Chocolate Shells Filled with Strawberries and Chocolate Goodness

Ingredients:
4 heart shaped chocolate shells (I found them at World Market)
1/2 cup sliced fresh strawberries (washed and rinsed)
1 teaspoon sugar (sprinkle on the strawberries once sliced)
1/4 can sweetened condensed milk
1 package of Ghiradelli milk chocolate chips
1/2 container of cool whip

For the "Chocolate Goodness"
Melt the package of chocolate chips in sauce pan with the sweetened condensed milk. In a large mixing bowl, fold this into the cool whip.
Put a layer of sliced strawberries on the bottom of each heart shaped chocolate shell. Spoon mixture of "Chocolate Goodness" on top of the layer of strawberries. Top with the rest of the sliced strawberries and then sprinkle the chocolate shavings on top. I only used the white chocolate ones because that is my husband's favorite.
Refrigerate for about 30 minutes prior to serving.