Here’s wishes for great happiness to you and your loved ones! May you find spice and romance every day.
The thought occurs that some foods happen to have aphrodisiacal qualities. Entire cookbooks have been written concerning this subject. I can’t offer a compendium of love foods, but I can offer some opinions.
1) Raw beets. To stimulate libido, I can think of nothing better than raw beets. Peel the beets, and then puree them with enough water to make a thin beverage. Use a blender; I would advise against using a juicer, because that just pulls out the fiber, and you need the fiber. A big glass of raw beet smoothie will light a firestorm in your blood. Don’t water it down with carrots or fruit juice; this isn’t cuisine, it’s a tonic.
2) Oyster shooters. This is cuisine, and it will still fill you with fire. Make a sauce using half cocktail sauce and half salsa (as hot as you like). Drop a fresh raw oyster into a 4 oz. rocks glass, top with 1 oz. (2 Tbsp.) of sauce, then carefully pour in a shot (1&1/2 oz.) of decent tequila. Don’t mix it; the tequila should stay clear.
3) Avocados. They are luxurious.
4) Basil. Raw. Pesto is good, but better is a ton of fresh basil tossed with pasta just before serving.
5) Honey. To me, honey has an aroma that is almost musky. It’s difficult to bring that quality forward through cooked goods, but it comes off great used raw with butter, ginger, dijon mustard.
6) Chocolate. Chemically, chocolate is probably the trueist aphrodisiac. But it needs to be intense. Chocolate should be gooey, it should be capable of sticking to a wall. Lindor balls, chocolate mousse, molten chocolate cake, chocolate tres leches, triple chocolate brownies with chocolate frosting. The chocolate should seem like a deadly muskeg into which one has become ensconced, like a pool of dark and delicious quicksand.
- Derrick Snyder