When it comes to cooking, I almost always overestimate how much I need to cook. I think it comes from watching my mom cook – she is the youngest of six kids so there were always lots of people to feed in her household. We are both the same in that we would rather have too much left over than not enough, and that is especially true of family gatherings.
Valentine's Day is another one of those only-in-America, marketing-driven events designed to get people to buy chocolate, flowers, greeting cards and sausage. Wait, what?