Eat Hearts for Valentines Day!

Nope, you didn't misread the title. Let me start at the beginning...


Valentines Day 2010. The Hunny tells me he's taking me to this little Peruvian restaurant for Valentines Day. Oh, and our neighbor is going to watch the twins! I'm excited! It will be only the second "date" we've had without the twins since I've been here (the U.S. that is - more on that later).

Alisha & Carlos

(Took this picture a month ago - aren't they gorgeous?)

So I scramble and get ready as quickly as possible - hunny says he's gonna play a WHOLE game on the PS3 while I get ready because it takes me "several HOURS to get ready!" LOL. I think he might have been right...

(Me trying to get ready... looking ROUGH!)

So we get to this restaurant, and automatically, the waitress starts speaking to me in Spanish (I think). Um... do I look like I speak Spanish?

Ok, maybe I do look a little like I should be able to speak it... but No habla espanol! I mean not really. I took a Spanish class when I was in Hawai'i years ago and I watch a bit of Dora with my 4 year-old Kata (or at least I pretend I'm watching), but certainly not enough to actually have anything resembling a conversation with anybody.

Anyway, she seats us at our table and hands us the menus. I scroll down, thinking everything sounds very...interesting. And then, I reach number 20.

If you didn't eat your carrots as a child, I will reiterate what the menu says:

"20. Anticuchos - Heart cow marinated in vinegar with special aji panca served with potatoes."

Translation:

"Heart cow... with blah blah blah (don't know what the heck the rest of the ingredients were) and potatoes."

It nearly put a stop to MY heart! I couldn't stop laughing and I asked the Hunny "Is this FOR REAL?" I couldn't tell if he was laughing because it was even on the menu or if he was laughing at my reaction to seeing it on there. Probably both ;-).

Now, I know it's Valentines Day, and I REALLY should have eaten a heart on Heart Day, but I just couldn't do it. I got the fried rice with chicken - I know. Boring and unoriginal. But it was MUY DELICIOSO! YUM YUM YUM YUM YUM!!!!

Happy Heart Day Y'all!
Love. Always.

Elle

Sunday, February 14, 2010