Off Days: Valentine's Day & President's Day

If I'm going to work that hard during the week, I'm definitely taking the weekends off. Particularly holiday weekends.

For Valentine's Day I made chocolate mousse. And for President's Day I made chicken marsala. Both according to cooksillustrated.com, the only online subscription I've maintained. The recipes and advice never fail, and that's saying something!

Kitchen Essential: Lodge Logic 12-inch pre-seasoned cast iron frying pan

Extra plates for assembling ingredients:

Potato mashers, one for each year of marriage:

'80s oak cabinets that will one day be painted or replaced (if not by me then surely by the next owner!).

Plus the five unaired episodes (spoilers) of Defying Gravity = Happy Weekend: