Apartment 5B Valentine Bash

Traditional heart shaped meat loaf under construction. We made two this year since it was a party!  Usually the mashed potatoes stuffed inside the meat loaf are pink but um...no red food coloring in the Congo.

I know you are all lusting after the lovely table setting, pink and orange plastic flowered table cloth with magenta flowered Melamac (yup it still exists) plates.



Wonderful salad created by Howard and Sue Bybee (Public Affairs missionary couple)

Note:  Heart shaped pieces of red pepper! 



Fruit salad with red apples and craisins presented by Kathleen and Roy Sneddon (Mission President’s office couple).

Apartment 5B’s Valentine Bash grand finale created by Mark and Elaine Smith (Perpetual Education Fund Missionaries)- a homemade 4 layer red velvet cake  with a heart candle (found in Kinshasa no less)  Serious yumminess!

Heart shaped rolls hand made by Hugh and Marcy Matheson (New friends, land developers and attorney from Salt Lake City here for a visit).

The Temple construction advance team Dean Schick and Ryan Dain brought the drinks, they weren’t red nor pink but they were yummy.  A mixture of ginger beer (non alcoholic of course this is a bunch of Mormon’s here)  Orange Fanta, Sprite and a few drops of bitters.  Give it a try.  Recipe courtesy of Marcy and Hugh Matheson  ingredients provided by Dean and Ryan.  A fun bunch.

This was my valentine to Ro.  Everytime we go to the market we see these gorgeous huge perfect red peppers imported from Belgium!  We look at them longingly and then look at the price tag and move on by.   But hey, what to get for a guy who would rather have a red pepper than chocolate?  Cost:  $5.50.  Memory:  Priceless.  He has judiciously included a little bit of his pepper in about 5 different dishes through the week.