Happy Monday! This weekend was such a fun one. I’m sad it’s over, but I’m looking forward to a productive and busy week. Here’s what I was up to this weekend. Make sure to link up to your weekend snapshots at the bottom of this post!
Friday started off with a double date night at my friend Erin’s house. She made a veggie cauliflower pasta that was absolutely delicious. We also popped the cork on this Santa Margherita Chianti Classico. I’m usually a white girl but this red was incredible and paired perfectly with the pasta. It was such a fun night.
Saturday Josh and I had a date planned that I have been looking forward to for months! For Christmas Josh got us tickets to a candy making class at Provisions.
The class was taught by the pastry chefs from Grey Plume, one of my favorite restaurants in Omaha. We learned how to make everything from toffee to caramels to rock candy to truffles. It was three hours of fun, sticky fingers, and sweet treats.
We learned the importance of using thermometers when making candy.
And I was shocked at how easy it is to make ooey gooey caramel bars. They’re delicious!
While our creations cooled we were treated to lunch. Grey Plume makes the best soup in Omaha. This butternut squash soup was no exception.
Everyone in our class was so nice. It was great to get to chat with everyone, hear why they were there, and learn more about other Omaha foodies.
Our finished treats. I can’t believe we made these! We went home with six boxes full of candy! It was such a fun afternoon and an experience I’ll never forget.
After the cooking class Josh and I drove to Jeff and Joanna‘s new house for a little housewarming party. They just bought a new house and it is gorgeous. I had a blast and completely forgot to take any picture to commemorate the night. I realized this as we were driving away so here is a picture of my oops face instead. 😉
Sunday morning was spent sleeping in and cuddling with this guy. The usual.
Then Josh and I put our newly acquired confectionary skills to the test with a homemade recipe for Valentine’s Day sweets. Recipe coming tomorrow! (Hint: they’re amazing!)
Sunday night was spent at Old Chicago drinking all the beer and eating all the pizza. We were rooting for the Broncos to win and were happy when they did. I don’t really know much about football. My real Super Bowl is the ads that play during the commercials. My top 3:
Also, can we talk about the halftime show? My goodness, Bruno and Beyonce brought it! Can they go on tour together? I’d buy those tickets in a heartbeat! This was my favorite part of the performance:
And now, just like that, it’s Monday again! Here’s to a great week!
Questions of the Day: What was the highlight of your weekend? Who were you rooting for during the Super Bowl? What was your favorite commercial? Would you ever want to take a candy making class?
Such a fun date night!!! I’m so jealous, that’s basically my dream date.
Sounds like a fun weekend, I’d love to take a candy making class! Although if I learned how to make candy for myself that might be dangerous 😉
A candy making class sounds so much fun!! My husband would love something like this!
Candy making class! I need to find one of these in my neck of the woods ASAP!
Have a lovely week!!
I’m excited to watch those superbowl ads (once I’m not at work).Your cooking lessons looked so fun!
Wow! That is my kind of weekend! That chocolate looks amazing. So fun!
What a fun weekend! The candy making class sounds like such a fun and original way to spend a date night. The halftime show was so good this year! Bruno can do no wrong, in my opinion 🙂
That candy looks delicious! What a fun idea for a date night, love it! Will have to run that by the fiance 🙂
Happy Monday
What a fun class! My candy making skills are pretty, my Google search is now ‘class’ heavy!
I’ve taken a couple cooking classes, and they were all really fun. We caught the last quarter of the Super Bowl. It was fun watching the guys play. For some reason, I knew it, but I didn’t remember football being such a stop and go game. That tells you how smart I am when it comes to the ways of sports. And that soup looks like the creamiest soup ever!
Wow that pastry class looks so fun! I’m going to see if I can get Michael to do something like that!
Jealous. Candy making class how fun.
That class looks like a lot of fun. I have to agree with you about the Super Bowl ads and I really liked the ketchup one as well.
What a great weekend, indeed!
That candy class would be lots of fun! and bet it tasted good too.
That candy making class looks like a lot of fun! Glad you had such a great weekend. Hope your week is great too!
What a great weekend you had. I’d be upset too if it were to get over. Cooking classes sound like so much fun. I also watch superbowl for the ads and yummy food. Thanks for the recap 🙂
That candy making class looked like a BLAST – makes me bummed that as we live in a small community that we don’t have opportunities for things like that (often). We weren’t rooting for anyone but I was in it for the Queen B! The commercials were lack luster this year I think – except for a few!
What a lovely weekend! =D I was about to do a weekend recap post, as well. That candy class looks awesome! Such a cute date idea, too!
The food looks so wonderful. Looks like you had a great weekend.
The highlight of my weekend was my son’s 6th birthday party at the cosmic bowling alley. We also watched the super bowl and I rooted for the broncos solely because my best friend moved to Denver a few months ago. Hahah and we won!
The Superbowl halftime show was so fun- Beyonce’s new song is amazing!
Omg, looks so yummy! And that Heinz ad was my favorite!
xo Jen
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Hahaha, your “oops” face! We never remember to take photos! Next time 😉
That cat is majestic, and holy crud, I want that pizza in my life! <3 (+ that candy making class sounds really fun! :] )