Saying it with a flower
Get your beloved a dictionary on the meaning of flowers or the meaning of roses, accompanied by a bouquet that she can decipher using the book. To avoid misunderstadings it is important to use the same book everytime you send flowers with hidden messages and the same book as you gave your partner because different books can give different meaning for different flowers.. Assigning meanings to flowers is an ancient tradition but the practise of compiling the meanings and turn them into flower dictionaries didn’t really catch on until the Victorian era. Several different flower dictionaries where published during the victorian era and each of them has slightly different meaning for different frlowers which is the start of the problems with possible misunderstandings that we are suffering from still today. Click this link If you want more info on the flower language.
hot chocolate, hot night
Instead of having your Valentine desert at a restaurant like everyone else, bring your beloved home and make some rich and velvety chocolate fondue. This is a fun playful desert that it best enjoyed in the privacy of ones whom where it can be as intimate and romatic as it should be.
Ingredients
- 1 lb of a high quality chocolate (choose one you know your partner like)
- ½ cup of cream ( do not use a low fat cream)
- 3 teaspoons of Kirsch fruit brandy (this is for flavouring and can be replaced if you dont like it)
- Strawberries and a few other fruits and berries for dipping. I like to use strawberries, mango, pineapple, papaya, green and blue grapes, kiwi, banana, apples, pears, peach or apricot, big raspberries, sweet oranges, loquat, and kumquat.
When you have the ingredients you will also need a fondue pot and some cocktailsticks to use to dip the fruit (tootpicks will do if you can’t find anything else).
Instructions
1.) All big fruits should be cut into munch-sized cubes or slices.
2.) If you’re using toothpicks or valentine cocktail sticks, place picks or sticks in each berry and fruit cube. If you plan on giving each of you a small fondue skewer instead you can skip this step.
3.) Crush the chocolate into small pieces.
4.) But the cream in the pot and heat it on a low flame.
5.) Add the chcoclate to the cream while stirring slowely, do this until all chocolate melted.
6.) Stir in the fruit brandy.
7.) Place the fondue pot on a portable heat source.
8.) Enjoy feeding eachother ffruit and berries dipped in fondue chocolate.
Tips!
Fruit and berries are not the only things suitable for chocolate fondue. Don’t be afraid to use new things. A lot fo people like to dip lady fingers, angel food cake and other similar food items.
Adding nuts to the chocolate will give the dish more variations, e.g. walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts and macadamias.
Taking it even further
If you have a hot tub, take a long and relaxing bath together using bubble bath or bath bombs. Prepare a combination of relaxing and arousing music in advance. If you want to gain extra points you can end the bath with a long massage. Use oils during the massage, deep smells like musk and sandalwood is suitable for valentine. When planning the day, make sure you both have nice clean bathrobes to put on afterwards for that luxurious hotel-feeling as you cosy up and replenish your energy with some more chocolate and perhaps a glass of sparking wine.
