I've been lurking this thread for a while and drooling over all of your food!
This is the second time I've actually cooked anything (and the first time the girlfriend and I cooked something together) in the kitchen that didn't come out of a package. I'm going to try to start cooking a lot more though!
We both tried a dish each.
I made scallop wrapped in bacon on a bed of baby spinach with onions and garlic:
and she made a sausage, bacon and zucchini carbonara in a cream sauce