A Spoiled Girl for Valentine's Day

This is our 3rd married Valentine's Day (which we celebrated today, since Thursday was Jordan's last final and he was decompressing from a crazy finals week and yesterday we had friends over), and Jordan has made it a tradition to cook me dinner and do the dishes afterwards. What a good man. 

He always spoils me with something that I would never buy the ingredients for (aka, something that uses spendy ingredients, because [as you all know from my previous posts] I'm extremely frugal at the grocery store). This year was no different. I got spoiled with Linguine With Seafood and Sundried Tomatoes (recipe posted below, courtesy of allrecipes.com). 

Since I'm keeping track of how much we spend, Jordan spent $25 on this meal (thank you to mother-in-law Lisa for the Valentine's gift that paid for this meal!). The recipe was enough for him and I to have a very filling (and super-delicious) supper, plus 3 lunches for me and 2 lunches for him. That's approx $3.60/serving. 

Getting ready for his once-a-year cooking extravaganza. 

Fresh-zested lemon. Yum.

Ready to eat. Yes, those are ice cubes in our white wine. Don't judge.

Happy wife, happy life.

Linguine With Seafood and Sundried Tomatoes

1lb vermicelli pasta - $0.99 (linguine wasn't on sale, lol)

1/2 cup olive oil - had on hand
1/2 cup butter - had on hand
4 cloves garlic, minced - had on hand
1lb bay scallops - $9.99/lb
1lb medium shrimp - $8.99/lb
1 oz jar clam juice - $2.97
1/3 cup chopped sun-dried tomatoes - had on hand
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley - $0.99/bunch
2 1/2 tsp lemon zest - 1 lemon $0.88
1/4 tsp salt - hand on hand
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper flakes - had on hand

1. Make pasta. 
2. Add butter and olive oil to skillet. After butter is melted, add garlic. Saute until tender.
3. Add scallops and shrimp (peeled and deveined) to skillet. Cook until shrimp is pink (about 10mins), then add clam juice, salt and pepper. Cook 3mins more.
4. Add tomatoes, parsley and lemon zest to pasta. Toss. Pour seafood mixture over pasta. Enjoy.