Anyone planning anything special for Valentine's Day or Mardi Gras?

A "Like Water for Chocolate" extravaganza for Valentine's Day. It's a fund raiser for the non=profit

I work for, so they can afford to keep paying me. Here is the menu as presented on our flyer, with quotes:

Valentine's Day Dinner February 14, 2013
presented by Long Beach Organic, Inc.
Inspired by Like Water For Chocolate, by Laura Esquirel
Your chefs, Joe Corso, Garden Director & Gabrielle Lindsley, Treasurer

Starters
Goat Cheese Stuffed Jalapeno Peppers & Spicy Mussels in their shells
"She would never forget the moment their hands accidentally touched as they both slowly bent down to pick up the same tray."

Amuse
Tamale Bites - some with mushroom, some with shrimp
“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”

First
Chiles en Nogada (with pork picadillo and nut sauce)
“It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present."

Second
Chicken with Mole Sauce
"Having felt it with her own body, she knew a look could start a fire."

Salads
Trio of Sweet Potato & Jicama & Ceasar
"After caressing each other, gazing at each other with infinite passion, they released the passion that had been contained for so many years."

Sides
Beans and rice for the table

Desserts
Trio of Chocolate Rum Flan & Lime Wedding Cake & Spicy Hot Chocolate Shot
"A fit of trembling shook Tita's body and she broke out in goosebumps when each new egg was broken."

Beverages
Sangria & Lemon Verbena Agua Fresca
Guests are also welcome to bring their own wine or beer.
"They say that under those ashes every kind of life flourished, making this land the most fertile in the region."

 
Funny article. I'm rather fond of the day, but you can add choc covered strawberries to the media

flood of commercials this year. my goodness, but everywhere I turn there is an ad for those berries.

 
Oh my this sounds amazing! ...but there is just one thing...

It really sound fantastic. Just one thing,

Sides
Beans and rice for the table
"As she shells the walnuts, Tita remembers ... One night after Rosaura had returned to her room Pedro noticed a horrible stench and a ceaseless sound of gas passing coming from Rosaura’s room."

But wait, there's more:
"...He opened her door and discovered Rosaura dead still expelling gas. Because of the smell that her body gave off very few people attended Rosaura’s funeral. However, many buzzards, attracted by the stench, were in attendance."

(Seriously, the internet gave me that gem. I couldn't resist!)

 
Hahahaha! I love that book! I was actually tempted to search out that quote for the beans...

as a joke to my co-host while we were writing up the menu but I was afraid I would accidentally leave it in the final version. Thank you for finding it for me.

Poor Rosaura, the only literary character ever to f@rt to death.

 
Please don't hate these holidays, hate the commercialization , but not the thought of the holiday

itself.
Mardi Gras is a celebration before the fasting of Lent begins.

Valentine's Day began as a time for friends and lovers to exchange small tokens of affection.

Enjoy both, in February, and "Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez", Let the Good Times Roll!!!

 
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