Fun Date Night!

Our friends, the McAferty's, invited us to their house for dinner on Friday. There was a little twist and a challenge! The twist was that we were having an "Iron Chef" type experience. Well, maybe not exactly like it , because we all made our dishes at our own homes. The challenge was the "secret ingredient". Everyone was to make their assigned dish using the ingredient:

Chocolate!

What could be better?

Here are the dishes: The Appetizer: Judy made a delicious dip made out of chocolate, sour cream, & honey and served with fresh fruit. The Salad: I made a fun recipe called "Snickers Salad" Yes, that's right...there are Snickers candy bars (thus the chocolate) cut up in it and it's delicious! (The presentation was much better before we started serving but I forgot to take the picture first!...still new to blogging!)

The Main Dish: Jackie made a wonderful "Mole" (mow-lay...a type of sauce that uses chocolate for part of the ingredients) served over chicken breast, with amazing brown rice (Dan made the rice), tortillas, and garnished with green onions, and my favorite avocados.

The Dessert: Lori made a scrumptious "Chocolate Souffle" as the finishing touch.

This is Lori introducing her dish (we each introduced/explained the recipe...but again, I forgot to take pictures while everyone else was introducing their dish)

After dinner, we played a hot round of couples "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"

The McAfertys...

The Sloans...

The Hamblins...

Thanks to our "hosts with the mosts", the McAferty's! We had a wonderful, fun evening!

P.S. This was so much fun we think there will be other nights like this to follow...you may get a call!