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Sundae with the Flavor that Last

Chocolate sundae

Sundae with the flavor that last.

One bite after another.

Chocolate, Hazelnut, Blueberry, Cream.

Taste, is a matter of opinion.

You like Chocolate.

I like Vanilla, but not straight up.

Our son sits in the middle, strawberry.

 

Ice cram sundae

Life is a sundae.

I took your spoon, licked it clean.

You shook your head, as if to say, "Hey you have your own…"

But that has never stopped me from dipping into yours.

Then we kissed, vanilla and chocolate swirl, or maybe passionate fruit.

What is your favorite flavor on a Sunday.

Mine is faith, hope, and love mixed with a sweet dose of ice cream.

Comments

18 responses to “Sundae with the Flavor that Last”

  1. Bev S.

    Oh I like everything covered with a big helping of grace 🙂

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  2. g

    such a sweet post-not a sundae person fav ice cream is mint choc chip followed by vanilla-but my ALL time fav is soft serve vanilla with jimmies(some call them sprinkles) not in a waffle cone as is traditional- i always prefer a sugar cone …but i believe these terms may be regional to the philadelphia area-

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  3. Cheryl ~ Casual Cottage Chic

    Once each summer we go to Baskin-Robbins and get a banana split! It’s our annual summer “treat”…lol!

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  4. Marcia Miner

    I haven’t looked in on your blog for quite awhile and I see that it is as delightful as ever. Reading that Sasha is going to stay in the States for several months, I am reminded of my French friends who moved back to France after raising their twin boys in Bolinas, California where I lived. One son lives in Mill Valley and each summer returns to Chateau de Petray and conducts bike tours. The other son lives in France and studied to be a vintner, but is teaching English near the Chateau. Their aunt inherited the property.
    http://www.francefrominside.com/Other-Pages/About_us_lostende_tours.html

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  5. martina

    It used to be ice cream, but since a gelato shop opened up nearby…..

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  6. momof5

    I missed yesterday’s post and just wanted to tell you how lovely it was. I can so relate in that when we are young we do not think of the long term effects of our decisions. But then again would we change those decisions? Most likely not as when love calls we tend to embrace it and see where it leads. You are a wonderful mother. But it sure does make us understand how our own parents must have felt.

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  7. Kathie B

    Growing up, for me the definitive sundae was the Hot Fudge Sundae at Edy’s in downtown Berkeley on the SE corner of Shattuck Ave. and Allston Way (remember Edy’s, Natalie???). The restaurant long ago closed, but Edy’s ice cream brand went from being something one could only buy hand-packed at the restaurant’s take-out counter to a factory-made product sold nationwide! BTW, Farmboy Husband likes Butterscotch and Hot Fudge Sundaes equally well.

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  8. Kathie B

    Sunday is a day of logic and reason for me — albeit at a leisurely pace, starting with Will Shortz’s puzzle on NPR’s “Weekend Edition” (usually while I’m still in bed!). Today’s:
    http://www.npr.org/2012/05/20/153097882/initially-famous-2-electric-boogaloo
    Some of the easiest puzzles-of-the-week can be solved before Will’s even finished repeating them, while others flummox me all week long! HINT: Many are “reverse engineered”: In this case, it might be easier to solve if one figures out first what “the present and past tense forms of the same verb” are that have “the same pair of letters in front of each” — then work backwards to find the “common three-letter word and five-letter word[s]” that follow these two letters and “together consist of eight different letters of the alphabet.” I got nuttin’ yet 🙁
    Once I’m out of bed, have eaten breakfast, then checked email, news online and friends’ blogs, I move on to translating — which, if you stop to think about it, is really just another type of puzzle-solving, mostly logic but with a soupçon of artistry thrown in for good measure. This weekend I’ve taken a much-needed break from two long prose books I’ve been working on for quite a while — a novel for over two years already (now kicked over to my colleague, to perform his magic on my rough draft), and a book of essays I began doing last fall but have only worked on sporadically — in order to start in on the recently-published “slender volume of poetry” (as if there any other kind, LOL!) that I just picked up on my latest trip to the Azores. It’s by the first friend I ever made in the Azores, on my first trip there 10 years ago this month (neither of us could have imagined then that someday I’d be translating his writings!). Poetry is definitely the hardest genre to translate, which makes the psychological reward all the greater every time one can tease out the best solution to a word or phrase, even though it usually takes a lot longer than with prose.

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  9. Kathie B

    OMG, how could I forget the Sunday “New York Times” Crossword Puzzle as well?!?!?!?

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  10. Ann

    Every time you post a picture of food I gain 5lbs. So yummy! I’m torn since one wants to make the most of each day and live it to the fullest and the other side says NO ICE CREAM – too many calories. My compromise is to have a strawberry/rasberry smoothie – works for me.

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  11. Suz

    Ah, charming!

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  12. Marilyn

    Through in a banana and a cherry on top with a dapple of love.

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  13. Nicolette

    Reading about ice cream took me back, way back, when my creative cousin use to work at a ice cream parlor in Willows. You would make some amazing sundaes. The first time I tried whipped marshmallow was when you put it on my mint chip ice cream with hot fudge. Yum!

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  14. Karen C

    My favorite Sunday flavor? Family with a generous sprinkling of friends. Yesterday I had both and being the greedy guts that I am, I want more.
    OK. Serious now.
    Vanilla ice cream sprinkled liberally with powdered dark cocoa. Droste Dutch cacao is the BEST! Mmmmmm

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  15. mary

    Going to church with my friend Myra Sharing the day with my family and they will each want a different flavor. I will want my Mom’s favorite …butterscotch but then I will want a taste of everyones and I will offer a taste of mine too:)

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  16. Brenda L. from TN.

    I am a chooaholic…with DARK choc syrup…and I love Praline Pecan Frozen Yogurt from the Mayfield Dairy out of Athens, TN.
    My G’daughter, who is a MAJOR Choc Mint fan, said the Praline Pecan was the best ice cream she’d ever eaten. Mayfield also used to make a Smokey Mtn. Fudge ice cream which was to die for but they don’t make it anymore! So sad! It was SOOOO good!

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  17. Brenda L. from TN.

    “chocaholic”

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  18. Brenda, Walker, La

    Home made Vanilla Ice cream…the soothing anecdote to life!

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