IN OMNIA PARATUS
Wanda wandered into the room where Roqué was sitting reading the paper and enjoying a cup of fine Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee. He looked up and smiled, “darling you look as if you are the cat that got the cream – what’s up?” She moved closer her blond tousled hair shimmering in the afternoon sun.
She wore a clinging off-the-shoulder Lipsy Red Knitted Bow jumper from Next with a Mulberry Andantino red silk scarf, a very short mini skirt of grey barathea with silver grey paisley and baby pink piping.
She raised her skirt to reveal a new tattoo with the Latin in onmia paratus on her right thigh just above her stocking top. Roqué took a sharp intake of breath, leant forward and kissed her tattoo.
Tonight my darling she said, I am your Venus, your Roman goddess of love, lust and romance, tie me up, tie me down in my red silk scarf.
“Venus” she said “was reported to love scallops, pomegranate and myrtle with its aphrodisiac quality, so tonight dinner will be a tribute to Venus.”
MYRTLE THE HERB OF LOVE
Myrtle has pretty white flowers and deep purple berries. Myrtle is best known in Sardinia where it is added to a melee of delicious dishes. Roqué, she said, wrap your taste buds around Myrtle pork.
Meatballs with myrtle and caramelised apples are a perfect trilogy of taste and senses as foreplay and pan-fried Creamy Lemon Myrtle scallops, preceded by a Myrtle Martini Giffard crème de myrtle liqueur. His taste buds were jangling with expectation.
Myrtle actually has quite a reputation as the herb of love. Venus the Goddess of Love was showered with myrtle as she rose from the ocean in that famous Sandro Botticelli painting The Birth of Venus.
This is how Wanda made the myrtle meatballs. Taking 600g minced pork, she mixed it with one egg, lemon zest, a finely diced cored and peeled pink lady apple and a few mashed chopped myrtle berries – all natural to Sardinia and oozing with aphrodisiacs.
She added a flourish of smoked salt, a pinch of paprika and a good grind of black pepper. Then worked the mixture into little round balls ( gosh she was in heaven thinking of Roqué!) then rolled them in whipped egg and fresh breadcrumbs placed the balls on some parchment and popped them into the refrigerator to chill and set.
Once the scene was set she brought them back to room temperature and cooked them for 15 minutes on an over tray at 160c. until golden brown, she served them on a pomegranate, rocket and watercress salad with a blue cheese vinaigrette.
DRESSED FOR SEX
As the time to eat approached Wanda changed into the little lilac sweater vest that Roqué had given her and a pink leather mini skirt just short enough to show her tattoo.
Roqué had bought this oh so sexy combination from Wild Mable when they had visited Myrtle Beach with 60 miles of sand in South Carolina where Roqué was sampling some new wines at the La Belle Amie Vineyard for his wine clients in the UK.
MYRTLE BEACH, SOUTH CAROLINA
When they were on Myrtle beach they had met Acadia, a tall beautiful bronzed girl who also was in the wine business.
They exchanged wine stories and vineyard tales for hours. Her name means ‘land of Plenty’ whether applied to the wine knowledge or her sexual appetite – you work it out.
They formed an immediate friendship as their interests collided, food, wine, sex and travel. This evening Acadia was joining them for dinner. Roqué watched as the taxi arrived and her long legs oozed from the car.
Acadia was fascinated by Wandas tattoo and asked what it translated to? It means ‘ready for anything’ she said with a wry smile.
Roqué wearing a crisp white linen suit served first Coastal Vines Brut Cuvee NV from Virgin Wines with the meat ball foreplay and Grenache Blanc 2022 as a perfect marriage with sexy scallops.
TOYS AND BOYS, WE LOVE ‘EM ALL!
They drank, chatted, got flirty and…well can you blame them?
“In onmia Paratus” – Roqué said – “ready for anything!” It was time to present the newly aquired Liberator Wedge RampThreesome. “Wow” as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons song goes “Oh what a night!”
What is ménage à trois in Latin and was Venus really party to all this? Wanda smiled and slipped off her shoes…
With Love Wanda, Roque and Acadia xxx
