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Arabian Recipes

written by [Lady Chaos]


The famous book known as "Arabian Nights" (The Book of One Thousand and One Nights) contains a myriad of famous middle-eastern stories... but it is not just a compilation of fairytales and myths! The stories are told by a queen, every night, to her evil (or just misunderstood?) husband the king, who intends to execute her. Because she leaves him in such suspense by the end of the night from the exciting stories she tells, he delays her execution! A very clever plan, but talk about doing things the hard way! Perhaps what these folks needed was a little aphrodisiac to get them in the mood for something other than stories, but just as exciting! And so, I bring to you...

Aphrodisiac Treats - for when you run out of Arabian fairytales!
(All recipes serve two, of course.)

Choc-Almond Figs

Ingredients
4 figs
1 block of chocolate (100-200g depending on how much you would like)
Slivered almonds to taste

Method
Break the chocolate up into pieces and put it in a mixing bowl that will fit on top of a saucepan without falling in or falling off.
Sit the mixing bowl on top of a saucepan with water in the bottom of it, and put that on the stove.
Heat the water, and stir the chocolate occasionally with a wooden spoon as it melts.
Peel and chop the figs into bite sized pieces and slice up the slivered almonds while the chocolate is melting
Once the chocolate is all melted, take it off the heat. Dip the fig pieces into it so that they are half-covered in chocolate, or even fully covered if you like chocolate a lot. After you have dipped a fig piece in chocolate, roll it in the chopped up slivered almonds so that they stick to the chocolate
Sit on a plate to cool, then serve.

Suggestion: It's best not to eat more figs than this in one go, especially if you are planning some bedroom acrobatics... while figs are known as an aphrodisiac food, they are also known as "nature's laxative".

Honey Nutmeg Pineapple

Ingredients
1 small (440g or less) tin of pineapple pieces or crushed pineapple in natural juce (or syrup if you have a sweet tooth!)
Honey to taste (I recommend about 2 or 3 tablespoons, once again depending on presence/absence of sweet tooth)
Nutmeg to taste (best to use a nutmeg spice shaker)
Glace cherries (optional)

Method:
Drain the pineapple and place in a bowl. Add the honey and stir.
Chop up the cherries and stir them in if you like them.
You can either add the nutmeg now and mix it in, or serve the pineapple and shake it on top.
Garnish with a glace cherry on top.

Ideas: This recipe can be varied by using golden syrup or maple syrup in place of honey, and other spices such as cinammon and mixed spice as well as or in place of nutmeg.




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