post-Valentine's

As Valentine's itself is not a good day to dine out, B. and I had our Valentine's dinner out on Tuesday, which is the only other day I had free in a busy week. We went to an Italian place we'd tried before and liked, in the little township of Loyola Corners not far from here, and were pretty happy with our fish dishes.

For last weekend when I was out, B. had put in the grocery order an entry for a dozen eggs, the overpriced food du jour, figuring she might make herself an omelet. But she didn't, and there were still a full dozen in the counter when I came back. They need to get used up eventually, so what do I have that uses a lot of eggs? A quiche. Haven't done one of those in a while. So I got the veggies and the cheese and the crust, and made my standard quiche, the one I submitted to the Tiptree cookbook years ago.

And that was our Valentine's dinner. For dessert, slices of a Turkish delight I'd picked up at a new Mediterranean place at lunch a couple days before. Unlike the jelly-like stuff I get at Pike Place in Seattle, this was slices from a roll made of a paste - this one hazelnut-flavored - coated in a frosting studded with pistachio bits.