Manuela Cardiga's Blog, page 70
June 13, 2014
BOOK REVIEW from the FABULOUS Lindsey Gray
Warning: Do not read this book when hungry. I had to stop reading several times to feed my growling stomach after reading the descriptions of the delicacies held within the pages of Guilty Pleasures. Now, with your tummy full, proceed to the tale of love in a fanciful food nirvana.
Lance is a celibate sex therapist in financial crisis. Millie is a curvy food lover who runs an exclusive club that caters to the ultimate food desires of her clients. From seemingly simple hamburgers, hot dogs, and pizzas to the overly extravagant Quail in Port with Plum sauce on a bed of Asparagus, all dishes are served from the kitchen of Guilty Pleasures.
Lance is hired by Millie's mum to seduced Millie and eventually get her pregnant. He is weary from the start, but takes the initial deposit with plans to pay it back and end the job as soon as his book advance comes in. What Lance doesn't expect is to fall hard and fast for the vivacious creature that is Millicent Deafly.
Almost every chapter is told in three parts. First, an excerpt from the book Lance is writing, Sensual Secrets of a Sexual Surrogate, then, a third person narrative, and closes with a diary entry from Millie. I love that we are essentially getting three points of view, but it didn't seem at all confusing or take away from the story. Lance's excerpts are very informative and often humorous. Millie's diary entries are a salacious treat, her personality really shines in her short, yet poignant, entries.
As for the heat from these two, it is a slow delicious burn well worth waiting for. I continued to wait for the proverbial shoe to drop and when it did, the unexpected happened. Not to give anything away, but Cardiga gives us several twists and turns in one of the most innovative settings I've read to date.Lindsey's Blog!
Lance is a celibate sex therapist in financial crisis. Millie is a curvy food lover who runs an exclusive club that caters to the ultimate food desires of her clients. From seemingly simple hamburgers, hot dogs, and pizzas to the overly extravagant Quail in Port with Plum sauce on a bed of Asparagus, all dishes are served from the kitchen of Guilty Pleasures.
Lance is hired by Millie's mum to seduced Millie and eventually get her pregnant. He is weary from the start, but takes the initial deposit with plans to pay it back and end the job as soon as his book advance comes in. What Lance doesn't expect is to fall hard and fast for the vivacious creature that is Millicent Deafly.
Almost every chapter is told in three parts. First, an excerpt from the book Lance is writing, Sensual Secrets of a Sexual Surrogate, then, a third person narrative, and closes with a diary entry from Millie. I love that we are essentially getting three points of view, but it didn't seem at all confusing or take away from the story. Lance's excerpts are very informative and often humorous. Millie's diary entries are a salacious treat, her personality really shines in her short, yet poignant, entries.
As for the heat from these two, it is a slow delicious burn well worth waiting for. I continued to wait for the proverbial shoe to drop and when it did, the unexpected happened. Not to give anything away, but Cardiga gives us several twists and turns in one of the most innovative settings I've read to date.Lindsey's Blog!
June 8, 2014
PRAISE FOR GUILTY PLEASURES!
5 STARS on AMAZON
Mouthwatering fun!,
May 31, 2014
By Elise de Sallier
This review is from: Guilty Pleasures (The Food andFornication Fables Book 1) (Kindle Edition)
The very first page of Guilty Pleasures saw me laughing out loud. By the last page I was close to tears. In between was a beautiful, engaging, colourful, delicious, funny, enthralling, gut-wrenching, erotic and heart-warming ride. The characters were multi-dimensional, the plot unique, and the storytelling an absolute delight. Thank you Manuela Cardiga for this fabulous story!
GUILTY PLEASURES
Mouthwatering fun!,
May 31, 2014
By Elise de Sallier
This review is from: Guilty Pleasures (The Food andFornication Fables Book 1) (Kindle Edition)
The very first page of Guilty Pleasures saw me laughing out loud. By the last page I was close to tears. In between was a beautiful, engaging, colourful, delicious, funny, enthralling, gut-wrenching, erotic and heart-warming ride. The characters were multi-dimensional, the plot unique, and the storytelling an absolute delight. Thank you Manuela Cardiga for this fabulous story!
GUILTY PLEASURES
June 1, 2014
“Deborah Bean’s Exotic Gropper on a Hot Bed”
SORRY!!!!
I meant…
“Deborah Bean’s Exotic Grouper on a Hot Bed”
That’s right! On last week's Event at Ashley's Addictive Book Promotions Deborah spilled the beans on her own GUILTY PLEASURE and got herself immortalised in a Recipe that is going to feature in Serge’s forthcoming Cookbook:
“COCKPORN: Low-Calorie Post-Coital Snacks for the Sexually-Addicted”.
She will also feature (under an assumed name) in a torrid dinner scene at Guilty Pleasures…
First things first!
Let’s make ourselves a “Tie Me To The Bed”, Deborah Bean’s winning GUILTY PLEASURE!
1/2 oz Malibu® coconut rum
1/2 oz Midori® melon liqueur
1/2 oz sweet and sour mix
1/2 oz lemon vodka
It sounds sooo deliciously delightfully GUILT inducing!
Especially what you may do under the influence…
“I did not WANT to do it…I was TIED TO THE BED and…”
So let’s have one, or two…or three!
And how about some music?
I like cooking to music, gets me in the mood. THIS makes me think of hot spicy food and silky rum.
MUSIC FOR THE MOOD
Now that we are in the right mood for this adventure, let’s do get it on!
DEBORAH BEAN’S EXOTIC GROUPER ON A HOT BED
Grouper Fillets - or any firm-fleshed fish. (Take it from me, girls, always check the firmness of the flesh, it’s very important on a hot bed.)
Hopefully you will have recruited a suitably firm-fleshed kitchen-helper to do all the slicing and dicing and the icky stuff, while you sensuously pose, dose and stir.
Don’t forget! RED LIPSTICK and something low-cut. Or just some black stockings and a frilly apron. Whatever you are comfortable not wearing.
MARINADE
1 Glass of Rum
Juice of 3 Key Limes
3 Green Chilies (as hot as you can take it Ladies, and I like it HOT)
Good handful of fresh Mint
Good handful of fresh Coriander
2 large Garlic Cloves Sea Salt
HOT BED
1 large Green Pepper (diced)
1 large Red Onion (sliced into rings)
2 large Mangoes (sliced thick)
1 teaspoon hot curry powder
KINKY COVER
250g of Diced Bacon
250g Cashew Nuts, coarsely crushed
(if you are allergic to nuts, substitute them with corn-flakes for an equally crispy texture)
Desert spoon olive oil
GREEN SALAD
Butter Lettuce
Cucumber
Fresh Mint
Now we can go…
First let’s get our fish into the MARINADE!
Take all the MARINADE ingredients and put them in a blender. WHIZZZ away!
Now set the fish out in a recipient and pour that goop over it.
We will now ignore it for at least an hour.
Let’s have another drink and do some exotic dancing.
Move those hips, jiggle those tits!
OOPS!!Wait a bit!
I was forgetting!
We better get that HOT BED ready!
The HOT BED…
Take the Onion, the Green Pepper and the Mango and get your Helper to slice and dice as per instructions…
For this part of the preparation I recommend a Tango:
TANGO FOR THE MANGO
Get him to do that dicing dramatically, provocatively, like an Argentinean outlaw. Sashay around him as he slices, undo his shirt buttons while licking your lips. Slide a leg sensuously around him, throw back your head and slide a chunk of mango down between your heaving bosoms.Get him to lick off the juice…
Arrange the Mango, the Red-Onion slices and the cubed Green Pepper on the bottom of an Oven-proof dish. Sprinkle the hot curry powder over it.
Take your helper to the bed-room and show him the bed.
(set a timer, don’t forget about the poor fish in its Marinade!)
TRRRIIIIIING!!!!!
COME ON! Get out of that bed!
Pre-heat your oven! 200ºC or there abouts and let’s that get that fish laid out onto that succulent spicy bed…
Carefully arrange the fillets on top of the aforementioned bed and pour the marinade over it.
Now we do the KINKY COVER
Heat up the olive oil in a skillet and throw in the Bacon.
When the bacon starts to crisp, add the cashew.
Stir it around for a few minutes, then spoon the Bacon/Cashew mix over that shamelessly naked fish…
Pop it into the oven for around 45 minutes.
While you wait, you can do the GREEN SALAD.
Just tear up the lettuce, and the mint and but be very gentle with the cucumber.
That’s it.
When the fish is done, serve it HOT with the Green Salad and a jug of TIE ME TO THE BED.
Then go back for seconds.
Or thirds…
Original Recipe by Manuela Cardiga for DEBORAH BEAN!
MORE of Manuela´s GUILTY PLEASURES!
I meant…
“Deborah Bean’s Exotic Grouper on a Hot Bed”
That’s right! On last week's Event at Ashley's Addictive Book Promotions Deborah spilled the beans on her own GUILTY PLEASURE and got herself immortalised in a Recipe that is going to feature in Serge’s forthcoming Cookbook:
“COCKPORN: Low-Calorie Post-Coital Snacks for the Sexually-Addicted”.
She will also feature (under an assumed name) in a torrid dinner scene at Guilty Pleasures…
First things first!
Let’s make ourselves a “Tie Me To The Bed”, Deborah Bean’s winning GUILTY PLEASURE!
1/2 oz Malibu® coconut rum
1/2 oz Midori® melon liqueur
1/2 oz sweet and sour mix
1/2 oz lemon vodka
It sounds sooo deliciously delightfully GUILT inducing!
Especially what you may do under the influence…
“I did not WANT to do it…I was TIED TO THE BED and…”
So let’s have one, or two…or three!
And how about some music?
I like cooking to music, gets me in the mood. THIS makes me think of hot spicy food and silky rum.
MUSIC FOR THE MOOD
Now that we are in the right mood for this adventure, let’s do get it on!
DEBORAH BEAN’S EXOTIC GROUPER ON A HOT BED
Grouper Fillets - or any firm-fleshed fish. (Take it from me, girls, always check the firmness of the flesh, it’s very important on a hot bed.)
Hopefully you will have recruited a suitably firm-fleshed kitchen-helper to do all the slicing and dicing and the icky stuff, while you sensuously pose, dose and stir.
Don’t forget! RED LIPSTICK and something low-cut. Or just some black stockings and a frilly apron. Whatever you are comfortable not wearing.
MARINADE
1 Glass of Rum
Juice of 3 Key Limes
3 Green Chilies (as hot as you can take it Ladies, and I like it HOT)
Good handful of fresh Mint
Good handful of fresh Coriander
2 large Garlic Cloves Sea Salt
HOT BED
1 large Green Pepper (diced)
1 large Red Onion (sliced into rings)
2 large Mangoes (sliced thick)
1 teaspoon hot curry powder
KINKY COVER
250g of Diced Bacon
250g Cashew Nuts, coarsely crushed
(if you are allergic to nuts, substitute them with corn-flakes for an equally crispy texture)
Desert spoon olive oil
GREEN SALAD
Butter Lettuce
Cucumber
Fresh Mint
Now we can go…
First let’s get our fish into the MARINADE!
Take all the MARINADE ingredients and put them in a blender. WHIZZZ away!
Now set the fish out in a recipient and pour that goop over it.
We will now ignore it for at least an hour.
Let’s have another drink and do some exotic dancing.
Move those hips, jiggle those tits!
OOPS!!Wait a bit!
I was forgetting!
We better get that HOT BED ready!
The HOT BED…
Take the Onion, the Green Pepper and the Mango and get your Helper to slice and dice as per instructions…
For this part of the preparation I recommend a Tango:
TANGO FOR THE MANGO
Get him to do that dicing dramatically, provocatively, like an Argentinean outlaw. Sashay around him as he slices, undo his shirt buttons while licking your lips. Slide a leg sensuously around him, throw back your head and slide a chunk of mango down between your heaving bosoms.Get him to lick off the juice…
Arrange the Mango, the Red-Onion slices and the cubed Green Pepper on the bottom of an Oven-proof dish. Sprinkle the hot curry powder over it.
Take your helper to the bed-room and show him the bed.
(set a timer, don’t forget about the poor fish in its Marinade!)
TRRRIIIIIING!!!!!
COME ON! Get out of that bed!
Pre-heat your oven! 200ºC or there abouts and let’s that get that fish laid out onto that succulent spicy bed…
Carefully arrange the fillets on top of the aforementioned bed and pour the marinade over it.
Now we do the KINKY COVER
Heat up the olive oil in a skillet and throw in the Bacon.
When the bacon starts to crisp, add the cashew.
Stir it around for a few minutes, then spoon the Bacon/Cashew mix over that shamelessly naked fish…
Pop it into the oven for around 45 minutes.
While you wait, you can do the GREEN SALAD.
Just tear up the lettuce, and the mint and but be very gentle with the cucumber.
That’s it.
When the fish is done, serve it HOT with the Green Salad and a jug of TIE ME TO THE BED.
Then go back for seconds.
Or thirds…
Original Recipe by Manuela Cardiga for DEBORAH BEAN!
MORE of Manuela´s GUILTY PLEASURES!
May 31, 2014
ATTENTION!
GUYS AND GALS!!!The GUILTY PLEASURES BOOK-BLAST is at 21:00h GMT!BE THERE!HOT BOOK-BLAST!
JOIN US TODAY/TONIGHT FOR THE GUILTY PLEASURES BOOK-BLAST!
OK! For all of you confused about what a Book-Blast is, it's basically a virtual Book-Launch party where you bring your own booze...
You get to hang around Ashley's Page, gossip, bad-mouth the Author behind her (my) back...
"Oh my god! Did you see how FAT she got!"
"Yes...but in compensation her PLOTS are REALLY thin..."
So you dish some dirt, drink too much, flirt a bit, take part in the quizzes and maybe take home a signed copy of Guilty Pleasures or one of my e-books!
Come along, don't be shy.
And the best part is, you can sit in your socks and bathrobe; drink gin and tell everyone you are looking MARVELLOUS!!!
SEE YOU LATER!CLICK HERE!
You get to hang around Ashley's Page, gossip, bad-mouth the Author behind her (my) back...
"Oh my god! Did you see how FAT she got!"
"Yes...but in compensation her PLOTS are REALLY thin..."
So you dish some dirt, drink too much, flirt a bit, take part in the quizzes and maybe take home a signed copy of Guilty Pleasures or one of my e-books!
Come along, don't be shy.
And the best part is, you can sit in your socks and bathrobe; drink gin and tell everyone you are looking MARVELLOUS!!!
SEE YOU LATER!CLICK HERE!
May 30, 2014
When someone asks hesitantly: "Can I be honest...?"
It amuses me no end that people who are afraid of hurting you with "honesty" have never a qualm about crushing you with a lie...
May 29, 2014
Eulogy in a Country Church-yard
Some loves we bury
Six feet under; buried deep,
Hail storms and thunder.
Some loves we bury
In shallow graves,
Walk away; though
The dead still stir
Plead and mumble,
Tongues pressing
Through dirt and gravel.
We walk, we run;
We flee, we travel
Always away; because
Some loves we bury
In shallow graves,
And though the corpse
Is cold and still,
We dare not turn
Least we see Through the dirt Carelessly strewn ,
The delicate tumble
Of fingers around
A pleading palm;
Still offering love,
Begging tenderness
As an alm.
Manuela Cardiga
Six feet under; buried deep,
Hail storms and thunder.
Some loves we bury
In shallow graves,
Walk away; though
The dead still stir
Plead and mumble,
Tongues pressing
Through dirt and gravel.
We walk, we run;
We flee, we travel
Always away; because
Some loves we bury
In shallow graves,
And though the corpse
Is cold and still,
We dare not turn
Least we see Through the dirt Carelessly strewn ,
The delicate tumble
Of fingers around
A pleading palm;
Still offering love,
Begging tenderness
As an alm.
Manuela Cardiga
May 28, 2014
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
I have loved
The wrong men
In the wrong way
Too often
To listen
To the stuttering
Of the tell-tale heart.
So I tell you straight,
What you wish to claim
I buried deep
With a stake
Through the aorta,
Coming right out-
Bloody and gory-
On the other side.
I stuffed it with garlic
Anointed it with Holy-Oils
Sanctified the burial
On Holy Ground.
Then like Heathcliff
Overcame with doubt,
I opened the casket
Dragged it all out;
French-kissed
The maggot–lips,
Spat the spite out.
So don’t come
To me now with
That winning smile
Requesting love
Without doubt.
Don’t you see my face,
My eyes washed
Wide-opened
By my last mistake?
I buried that love
Along with my blindness
In one mass-grave.
Manuela Cardiga
The wrong men
In the wrong way
Too often
To listen
To the stuttering
Of the tell-tale heart.
So I tell you straight,
What you wish to claim
I buried deep
With a stake
Through the aorta,
Coming right out-
Bloody and gory-
On the other side.
I stuffed it with garlic
Anointed it with Holy-Oils
Sanctified the burial
On Holy Ground.
Then like Heathcliff
Overcame with doubt,
I opened the casket
Dragged it all out;
French-kissed
The maggot–lips,
Spat the spite out.
So don’t come
To me now with
That winning smile
Requesting love
Without doubt.
Don’t you see my face,
My eyes washed
Wide-opened
By my last mistake?
I buried that love
Along with my blindness
In one mass-grave.
Manuela Cardiga
May 26, 2014
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