Doug & I aren't big go out to dinner on Valentine's day people. Since the very first Valentine's we were dating we've had a tradition of staying in and cooking our own meals. Doug started this tradition by cooking for me the first year and the next year I cooked for him and on and on. So this year it was my turn to cook. I was feeling a little overwhelmed because Valentine's day fell on a Monday this year and I have class on Monday. I didn't want to ruin the tradition of making something special that night but I also didn't want to eat at 10pm. I felt stuck. Last week I had mentioned something to Doug about making meatballs soon and Doug's eyes lit up and with great enthusiasm he let me know that he'd like nothing else for Valentine's day except meatballs.
Well, that's easy enough I thought. The way we make meatballs in my family is we mix all the ingredients together, we brown the outside on the stove top and then we plop them in homemade marinara sauce and let them slow cook all day long. By the time they are done the whole house smells amazing and it's a mad dash to be the first person to get your hands on them. I figured meatballs would be perfect. I could make the marinara sauce on Sunday and mix the meatballs on Sunday and then Monday I could just get up early, brown the meatballs and they would be ready when class was over. I was feeling relieved but still also feeling guilty. Valentine's day is the day we usually try to make something out of the ordinary and while I don't cook meatballs all the time, I do cook them often enough that I wouldn't call them out of the ordinary. So I began looking for the perfect dessert recipe. After all, this recipe was going to have to carry the dinner. I searched and searched and suddenly I found it, the perfect Valentine's day dessert for Doug... s'mores pie!
Maybe you have to know Doug to understand his deep love for marshmallows and s'mores. A few years back when Doug bought me my fire pit as a gift for running the Marine Corps Marathon I knew all along that it was secretly also for him so he could eat more s'mores. Doug also loves pie. I'm not a huge pie fan so I rarely make it but this was his dessert and I wanted it to be special so I set off to make it. It was a lot of steps, graham cracker crust, dark chocolate filling and homemade marshmallow - yeah, that was an experiment that turned into a mess. But overall the pie was a huge success. Doug loved it and I honestly can say it tasted very much like a s'more. I have a feeling this is going to become a regular request in our house.
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