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.. The flower language became popular during the Victorian era and this was also when the first flower dictionaries where compilled but people where giving meanings to flower long before that. During this period, several different flower dictionaries were published and that is why you can find different interpretations in different books. Click here for more info about the meaning of flowers and roses.

Chocolate godness
Instead of doing the ordinary and having desert at a restaurant you can take your partner home and make a rich, tasty 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.

What you need

• 1 lb of a high quality chocolate (choose one you know your partner like)
• ½ cup of heavy 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. Examples of fruits you can use is grapes, papaya, pinappel, mango, banana, pears, peach, loquat.

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).

Here is how to do it

1.) Cut bigger fruit in to suitable bit sized slices.

2.) Place a cocktail stick in each fruit slice and in each berry. If you plan on giving each of you a small fondue skewer instead you can skip this step.

3.) Break the chocolate into small pieces.

4.) But the cream in the pot and heat it on a low flame.

5.) Slowly add small pieces of chocolate while stirring continuously until all the chocolate is melted.

6.) Stir in the fruit brandy.

7.) Remove the fondue pot from the flame and put it on a portable heat source.

8.) Feed each other fondue by dipping fruits and berries into the chocolate.

Tips!

A lot of things are suitable to be used with fondue, not just fruit and berries. 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.

If you want more variation you can add nuts to the chocolate, eg. almonds,walnuts, macadamias and hazelnuts.

Bath, bed and beyond

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. Make sure that you plan for after the bath as well, make sure there are wine and chocolate waiting for you as well as nice luxurios clean robes waiting for you when you come up from the bath.