Valentine's Day Shopping

Valentine's Day is coming up again, and the only day I'd have to shop was Saturday before the big blizzard hit. I had a good idea of what I wanted to get for the Boy and spent time researching different designs on the internet, but of course the Boy ruined my surprise as usual and told me what he'd really really like for Valentine's Day. I'll have to save the idea for another occasion. The Boy wanted an 8" stainless steel pan with copper plating on the bottom and an 8" chef's knife by Global. Why? Because the Boy's an amateur cook and noticed a few days earlier that every cook at Jean Georges uses two basic items: the chef's knife and stainless steel pan with copper bottom.

So, off I went to Macy's to pick up the Boy's *surprise* gift while he shopped around for my gift. At least he won't know what the card looks like. It wasn't hard finding stainless steel pans, but the copper plating on the bottom sent me searching through every pan in Macy's inventory before finally finding one.

The upside of this is that the Boy cooked me a really nice steak dinner with sauteed mushrooms in his new pan later that night. Mmm!