10 saucy shared foods for the bedroom

It's grim and cold outside. The doona beckons. You may or may not have someone to share your bed with - no matter - sensual food experiences are equally lovely when you share them with yourself. Here's ten saucy ways to share food with your partner (or yourself) for warm winter fun:

1.Tea -  Aromatic, spiced, heart-warming tea. Ditch the functional mugs; go your most delicate cups and saucers; your most extravagant tea pot.  Try something fresh, like mint and honey; or ground ginger root, lemon and honey; even a few leaves of sage. It is reputed that in Ancient Greece wives welcomed returned soldiers home with sage tea to encourage sexual advances (once wonders why they would have needed any coercion after being at war...)

2. Toast  - Preferably smeared in aphrodisiac morsels such as avocado, asparagus or fig jam in dripping-down-the-side quantities.

3. Chocolate cake - Say no more. Not for the faint hearted. If you're counting calories, maybe you shouldn't be reading this blog at all.

4. Honey - A quick fix to perk up any lagging sexual appetitie. Symbolically, honey defies decay. If you don't want to eat it, consider wearing it.

 5. Oysters - So  it's a cliche, and your bed is likely to smell a bit fishy, but oysters are de rigueur in a list like this. Apparently they are high in zinc,  which helps with testpsterone production. Ancients take note.

6. Champagne - Preferably of the chilled, very expensive variety, but a $7.95 bottle from your local supermarket can work just as well if you use your imagination. One forgets the price after the third glass.

7. Rocket - A bit left-of-centre I know, but it's got three things going for it: it's growing in our gardan at the moment; it's fiery; and the Roman poet Ovid called it salacious. Reputedly, it was sown arount the statue of the ancient god of sex and excess, Priapus. Another Roman poet had to say:

'Hail, Priapus, near thee we sow

To rouse to duty husbands who are slow.'

Those ancients really did need a lot of help (and they didn't even have television and internet - what was their excuse?).

8. Truffle oil - Drop it onto some pasta, add it to sauted mushrooms, or simply use it with some carrier oil and massage your partner wtih it. Then gobble them up.

9. Coffee - To heighten the senses and wake the body - add your favourite liquer and a dash of cinammon for a more exotic experience.

10. Chocolate sauce - As Nigella does saucy very well, why not use her wicked chocolate sauce to dress your partner (such a waste to use it on the brownies). The perfect bedroom desert before you have to get out of your warm bed, have a shower and throw the sheets in the washing machine. 

Bon appetit! 

Comments

[Voula a]

Spiri this blog is becoming too racy ...
You need to preface with a warning
10 points for enthusiasm..have you locked your children away
Somewhere safe?!

[Vin Maskell]

Fun stuff, Spiri.

Maybe I need to take up drinking tea, coffee and champagne!

Cheers

Vin

[Spiri Tsintziras]

Yes, Vin, coffee, tea and champagne always help in the fun stakes department (not necessarily in the health stakes though). On another note, congrats of lovely piece in recent edition of The Big Issue!