valentines day has never been a romantic day for aaron and i. the last two years we have volunteered to watch other people’s kids so they can go on dates, (one year we babysat over 25 kids) but this year, we had both recently returned from the northwest, and we so tired from travel that we had no time to plan anything at all.

so i went to tj’s to plan a really simple dinner, and knowing i already had salmon in my freezer, i just bought sides and wine. it took me a few minutes to get aaron on board with the recipe plan, but by the time he was blending a sundried tomato sauce, i was working hard at failing completely on the rest of our meal. i defrosted our salmon too late, it ended up smelling like an old fish tank (not a good sign), i overcooked our baby broccolli, and finally gave up. aaron pulled out some salmon patties from the freezer, suggesting we try to save the whole project, but 4 minutes of microwave defrosting later, we gave up completely on our half frozen, half defrosted salmon disaster and went to sushi. which is never a fail because our sushi place is the best sushi ever. for $3 a plate.

thank you fish fail. i love sushi. happy valentines day:)

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