Ooh there I was thinking that I was back on track when actually I’ve been leaving the recipe of the week on the main blog site to stagnate for the past aeon, got to fix that.

So, partly to give myself a drive to make up more recipes I can share and partly so that I can have something awesome once it’s finished, I’ve decided that over the next month or so I’ll be doing the recipes to create a completely chocolate based dinner party menu starting from today’s amuse bouche and ending up with a couple of snazzy chocolate nibbles to go with your coffee and covering everything inbetween.

Now I know a lot of places have offered a chocolate dinner party at some point and it seem like there are a fair few chocolate menus out there, but I don’t think that there’s been a really decent balanced and interesting complete menu put out by anyone (please correct me if there has been) and so I think it’s only right that those dark days be put to an end!

To be honest, I’ve only got a vague idea how the formal courses laid down by the dinner party high council scarypeople are meant to go so I’m just going to go all out and make every single course I can think of in more or less the right order starting this week with a chocolate based little nibbles in white and black to be followed next week by one in black and white (backing track of “ebony and ivory” strictly optional).

Perhaps the menu’s going to turn out not quite as summery as would be good for now, but hey, by the time the menu’s actually completely finished the hot weather might be too and you can treat yourself to an autumnal chocolate extravaganza! Or just stand back and be pleasantly scandalised at the range of things that go into the menu… the choice is yours.