In article <c225b02a-a4df-4514-abb0-f7a25470b1e4
@z19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>, says...

> Valentine's Day is not a Hallmark holiday, silly. Sure, some folks
> treat it that way. I find the whole kids' school valentine exchange
> to be sickening. Every year I make my wife a lobster. I boil it,
> then serve her the tail and large claw meat with butter-lemon. I
> discard the head and liver. I remove the rest of the meat and reserve
> it, then I extract the lobster flavor from the shells with successive
> boilings and reductions. I season the well reduced broth with a
> little garlic and/or onion, thicken with cornstarch and cream, and add
> the meat, and a tiny bit of salt. A pat of butter on top of the soup
> is nice. She is crazy about lobster. I'm not, but I am crazy about
> her.
>
> So she gets the lobster, then a few hours later, the soup. There are
> no greeting cards involved. I haven't bought a greeting card in
> decades.
>
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
>
> --Bryan

Sounds nice. Glad you and your girl get along like that... I do to with
mine

Scotty