Ice Cream

my favorite dessert in the whole wide world is ice cream. i love it. Give it to me on a stick, in a cone, a bowl, drizzle it with fudge or sprinkle it with fruit, heck, hand me a tub of ice cream and a spoon and i’ll be happy.

Ice cream, in my opinion is the food of the gods.

And my most favorite ice cream is a mud pie made by a local restaurant here in town. 

Now pay attention, because i’m pretty sure there’s magic at work in the recipe. It has an crushed oreo cookie pie crust with a thin layer of fudge spread over the bottom. Then a layer of coffee ice cream and a layer of vanilla, each about one and a half inches thick, followed by another thin coating of fudge. Then the whole thing is topped by whipped cream and candied almond slices, and it is divine!

It goes for almost eight dollars a slice, and if you order a whole mud pie ahead of time you can get it for the bargain price of $45, and it is worth every penny.

i don’t eat it every day because, well frankly, it’s very rich, it’s loaded with calories, it’s expensive, and it’s too much work to make. Every layer takes prep time and chill time before you can move on. It’s a process that takes hours, i've done it.

Now you may wonder what inspired me to go on about ice cream on my naughty blog, and sadly, it isn't because i'm eating a slice of mud pie right now. 

It’s because it occurred to me that ice cream and mud pie are a perfect metaphor for something i've experienced with my play partners in the lifestyle.

And here it is. You don’t have to feed me mud pie every night.

The mud pie is delish, and i will never turn down a slice, but as i said before i got to the mud pie, i am perfectly happy with ice cream in any of it’s yummy and varied forms. 

You don’t have to pull out all the stops every night. You don’t have to come up with something new and different and amazing and more all the time.  

I don’t need or want pushing limits and exploring new territory every time we play. Some times i just want to share a tub of ice cream and to spoon.

In fact, sometimes, i want a cookie, or a cupcake, or to skip dessert all together or have a second helping of the main dish instead.

You’re making this harder than it has to be, and letting the ice cream melt in the process. Let’s have the mud pie as a treat.

That’s all i’m saying. Ice cream is good, don’t ruin it for me.

~sandi

originally posted on my tumblr. here