SPRINGFIELD -- For Amanda L. Walmsley and her boyfriend, romance was in short supply as Valentine's Day approached this year, according to the arrest report.

There was plenty of hot grease, though.

Amanda Walmsley, 26, of Springfield

After the couple argued on Feb. 13, Walmsley allegedly threw hot grease from a second-story window, striking her boyfriend on the sidewalk. Moments later, a frying pan came flying out the window too, narrowly missing the boyfriend, the arrest report said.

When police arrived, no grease spatter analysis was needed -

evidence of the alleged assault was visible on the victim's head, chest and legs, the report said.

"He was covered in grease," Officer James Donovan noted, and the pan was still on the sidewalk.

A witness confirmed the boyfriend's account, saying he saw a woman throw a pan out the window that "just barely missed his head," the report said.

Questioned by police, Walmsley, 26, acknowledged that an argument had broken out in their Pasadena Street apartment over her boyfriend's alleged infidelity. She was arrested at the scene and he was taken to Baystate Medical Center for treatment of minor burns.

On Valentine's Day, Walmsely pleaded not guilty in Springfield District Court to assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (hot grease) and assault with a dangerous weapon (pan).

She was released on $250 cash bail and ordered to return for a pretrial hearing on March 28.