On Valentine's Day my housemates and I made pork chops and risotto with broccoli (click for recipe), with white wine.
And for Mardi Gras, I made this King's Cake for my Italian class to have during our espresso break halfway through our seminar. It's actually just cinnamon buns formed into an oval, with colored frosting and a coin baked in. The coin comes from the Three Kings / Mardi Gras tradition of baking a baby into the cake. The person who finds the baby is the king or queen for the day, and also must provide the next King's Cake. My Italian class is all about Boccaccio's Decameron, in which a group of seven young ladies and three young men escape the plague of Florence in 1348, and go to the country and tell stories for ten days. Each day there is a different king or queen who picks the theme of the day's stories, and then picks the next king or queen. Our professor had provided cookies to go with the espresso until this past week, but he decided that since there are 10 of us in the class and 10 weeks left, from now on we'll take turns bringing something to go with the espresso. Therefore, the person who found the coin in my King's Cake has to bring something next week, and will be the queen of the day. So I thought that the King's Cake fit in very well not only with the celebration of Mardi Gras, but also with the theme of our class!
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