Do You Remember the First Valentine Your Dear One Sent You?

I received my first Valentine from Del 46 years ago when we were freshmen at Richmond, and I have never forgotten it. It was so sweet, so tender, so romantic. Unfortunately, it didn't survive our many moves, but who could forget the beautiful words? "Wax in my ears, lint in my belly button and you in my heart." It was accompanied by a huge lavender heart shaped box of candy with a huge fake orchid on it. He confessed some years later that he bought it because it offered the best value for the money. The man is a true romantic. What more can I say?

Actually, he and some of his family members have a warped sense of humor when it comes to choosing cards. They spend more time picking out the perfect insulting card than I do a pair of shoes. He always picked out David's Valentine card, but one year he was out of town, and I did it. David opened the sweet card I had bought and asked if his dad was mad with him. It seems he thought his dad hadn't cared enough to spend the time to look for the truly obnoxious.

We didn't have special Valentines Day plans tonight. Del had oral surgery yesterday to remove a tooth and the impacted wisdom tooth under it. They hadn't wanted to remove it back in the olden days, but the time had come. The wisdom tooth left a small hole in his sinuses, so he now is the only one in the family who has had a collegen (sp?) injection. The menu for this evening was mashed potatoes with gravy. Breakfast was scrambled eggs, and lunch was macaroni and cheese and yogurt.

He has done quite well, although when we were trying to wake him up he kept talking about Boy Scouts on bikes who were trying to help senior citizens cross the street and telling the nurse he was a cheap drunk. She assured him that on this particular occasion he was quite an expensive drunk.

I saw this recipe on the Hershey's site, but haven't tried it. I'm thinking it could not possibly be anything but wonderful.

Recipe:

28 hersheys milk chocolate kisses
10 caramel filled or other type filled kisses
2 T. plus 2 t. whipping cream
1 cup ground nuts or some other covering that goes well with the type filled kiss you are using

Put the 28 kisses in microwave safe bowl with cream and nuke for 1 minute. Stir and continue to heat in 15 second bursts as needed. Cover and refriderate for 4-6 hours, or until firm.

Use 1 T. chocolate mixture to completely cover filled kiss, gently rolling to form a ball without mashing the filled kiss out of shape.

Roll in ground nuts or whatever coating goes well with the filled kiss you chose.

Refrigerate until firm, but remove from frige 5 minutes before serving for better flavor.

Sounds yummy to me. If you make them, please let me know how they turned out.