Do you remember that before Christmas I reviewed some chocolate from the lovely Hotel Chocolat? Those lovely people have given me the chance to show you one of their yummy Easter products, and they're going to give one of you a free sample. It's this:
Looks delicious, huh? And it's so witty, which is one of the aspects of Hotel Chocolat products that I love. Look at those chocolate toast soldiers - white bread that's been dipped in a soft boiled egg! How clever is that?
You can buy one of these "You Crack Me Up" delights at the Hotel Chocolat website, for £28.00. Alternatively, you can leave me a comment, and on 27th March, which is 9-yo's birthday, I will have her pick a number at random out of a hat, and we will tell you who gets the prize. So entries please by midnight on Wednesday, 26th March. To enter, you have to leave me a comment telling me a happy chocolate memory - and it can be anything, because remember, the winner pick will be random and not based on the quality of the memory you share.
And while you ponder your own chocolate memories, I'll tell you one of mine. For my 21st birthday, I went out to dinner with 9 friends. We were at university at the time. We went to a fondue restaurant, and when we were all stuffed to bust with melted cheese and raw veggies, for some reason, inexplicable except that we were young and having fun, we ordered a chocolate fondue for dessert. I remember walking back to my college room afterwards, and feeling like really I should carry on walking all night, just to get rid of that weight of rich food in my stomach.
Share a happy chocolate memory with me, and you might receive that lovely "You Crack Me Up" egg! (You can enter the giveaway wherever you live, but the prize can only be posted to a UK address.)
Disclaimer:
For this post, I am receiving no chocolate. Just the egg (retail value £28.00) that is going to one of you lovely readers of my blog. (Incidentally, just so you know how much I love you all, I might mention that I was offered the choice of receiving the product for review, or running a giveaway, and I opted for the latter. We had free chocolate at Christmas, and I believe in spreading the love a little.) The opinions of the product are my own.
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My favorite chocolate memory is at Easter every year when I hop-hop-hop like a bunny with my bag of chocolate eggs and other Easter goodies in the park across the street from my house and all my children and some friends, and when I say all my children I mean ALL my children including the 17 year old and the 19 year old as well as the 11 year old so RUNNING out to get the chocolate eggs
ReplyDeleteMy best friend lives in Brussels, and my favourite memory (actually memories, many of!) is that when she comes home, I always try to meet her at the airport, and just drive her to where she's going, rather than her getting a taxi. It gives us time together, it's not much bother, and it's the next best thing to going on a trip...I love going to the airport! Each time, she brings me a beautiful box of Pierre Marcolini chocolates; they are amazing, esp the black pepper ones! Then, each time I eat one, I think of her and send good wishes her way. Happy all round!
ReplyDelete'A' happy chocolate memory. Lol. Isn't anything to do with chocolate happy at all times. It is in my world! Ah go on then: discovering a hollow chocolate cow wasn't (hollow). Oh the elation of factory failure :)
ReplyDeleteWell my chocolate memory funnily enough involves Hotel Chocolat. They have opened a restaurant in Borough Market where all the food is themed around chocolate and cooked with cacao in some form or other. I went there with a friend and we had the most marvellous evening. In fact, Iota, I think you should come down to London and we'll go there. (Maybe your mates at Hotel Chocolat can sponsor us to write a review!)
ReplyDeleteA recent happy chocolate memory is trying a bacon chocolate, from a selection my daughter brought back from Belgium. With trepidation I nibbled a corner of it - it was delicious! :)
ReplyDeleteYou're more generous than I'd have been - I'm sorry to admit I'd have opted for my own review egg! As for a chocolate memory , I've got to go for a particularly amazing mars bar a few days after my son was born - I'd just realised how much energy it was going to take to keep sustaining this little geezer. (looking forward to re-learning this excuse soon).
ReplyDeleteMy favorite happy chocolate memory - my friend Alison at Uni introducing me to Cadbury's mini eggs and Thornton's alpini!
ReplyDeleteI want to *make* happy chocolate memories by coming to your dinner with Nappy Valley Girl.... Come on Hotel Chocolat, you know you want to.
ReplyDeleteThat aside, a happy chocolate memory: eating tobacco (no really) chocolate with my mum at a chocolate tasting session at l'artisan du chocolate round the corner from Harrods. This must have been about 15 years ago and they were one of the first super duper artisan type chocolatiers to appear in the UK (though looking at their website they're now almost ubiquitous - and started in London in 2000 so my 15 years was a good guess!). The evening was my Christmas present to her. It wasn't entirely without self-interest....
When I was 5 or 6 a friend had a party in her garden with old pennies hidden for us to find that we could then use to "buy" sweets from a stall. It was one of the best parties I've ever been to and I remember the joy of buying chocolate having gathered the big coins hidden among the plants!
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