Hot Fudge Sundae Day

Today is hot fudge sundae day. Oh, how many of these tasty delights have I had in my very long lifetime?My love affair with hot fudge started with my job at Lochner's Pharmacy when I was in high school. We had a soda fountain at the back of the store, and we could have ice cream FREE. I would take a coffee cup and put a scoop of ice cream in it and cover it with fudge sauce. The fudge sauce was always on...heated in an electric metal container on the back shelf. A spritz of whipped cream and a cherry. I had one most everyday that I worked. I never got tired of them. It continued with the dairy queen. My kids were small and we would take them for ice cream in the evening.It was always something that I could use that day for bribing them into behaving :) I didn't make them at home in those days....so it was such a treat. The kids would have dipped cones...not knowing what they were missing with all that fudge. Then my mother in law gave me a recipe for a fudge frosting that could be cooked a little less and used for topping for ice cream. YUM! I started making fudge topping...just a little...for homemade sundaes.Now I could have my sundae with butter pecan ice cream...not just vanilla. In times of happiness, stressful times, celebrations, and just a craving for chocolate,....these have been my go to treat. I have a friend, Nancy, who shares that love of a good sundae. We would go to lunch and eat a smaller portion of lunch, so we'd have room for a sundae.We still do that. It scares me... that now, in my "golden years" that I don't have the same cravings for hot fudge sundaes. This hot, hot, summer would normally find me eating ice cream. I have lost my taste for it...somewhat. So today on hot fudge sundae day...I WILL celebrate with a good sundae. I have all the makings for it....just have to get that taste for it back. The more I look at that picture, the more I think it looks good. Maybe this afternoon...

Balisha