What happens when you lock us up for a week....

So DC in general does not handle being locked up due to the snow--a bunch of Type A workaholics get very cranky when this happens. Ryan and I learned that we were no exception to this and apparently fit right in this city. Neither of us has ever been so happy go to work as we were on Friday after having not been there since the previous Thursday. So on Wednesday to pass the time we made cheddar cheese. Click HERE to see pictures--captions describe the steps. It was more complicated than the feta because we had to press it. We used a large tower of my textbooks to do this and they kept falling over as the cheese would sink in certain spots. It would have been entertaining to be a fly on our walls because we would just sit there staring at the Leaning Tower of Public Health Books trying to decide if it was leaning. As soon as we thought it was alright we would walk away they would come crashing down! We are going to cover it in red cheese wax tomorrow and then let it age in the refrigerator for many months. We are so excited to taste it, and I hope we have the patience to wait for it to age.

That brings us to today. Neither of us are big Valentine's Day people, but we decided that it was a good excuse to at least make a nice dinner. So we experimented with something new--butternut squash lasagna (picture below). It was delicious!