Gourmet Magazine online has a WHOLE SECTION on ice cream recipes, including caramel, basil, blueberry and green tea ice cream in the most enticing color (pictured above).
August is going to be a good month. Even if only ONE person has entered my ice cream contest officially.
My grandmother has the same recipe for all of the dishes she makes. It’s “oh, honey, I just dump.” Meaning, of course, that she just adds ingredients in the proportions she’s used for decades without any precise measurements. While difficult to replicate her pumpkin pie, as my cooking skills have improved it has become easy [...]
I’ve prided myself on being a low-maintenance eater. Take me to any restaurant and I’ll find something on the menu to eat. Even Chinese food, which I really dislike, I could order steamed veggies and brown rice and survive. If I’m alone at dinner time, I’ll eat cereal, cheese and crackers or pasta with (gasp) [...]
Ahh vacation! Is there anything more restorative than a week where your only responsibility is to relax and have fun? My siblings and I spent a week on the Shenandoah River in Virginia reading, canoeing, drinking beer and relaxing. The weather was beautiful, the company was great, there was a charcoal grill and lots of [...]
My freezer is packed to the gills with Trader Joe’s goodies. My husband warned me on his way back from the store on Sunday that I’d have to take out the ice cream core. I had time to make one more batch before vacation and the ice cream contest recipes come rolling in. (Come on! [...]
I’ve wanted to try a whole grain blueberry pancake recipe from Bon Appetit’s February 2008 issue since, oh, February 2008. I finally got around to it this brunch-ish when I realized it called for a whole grain pancake MIX. Qua? ::shaking finger at Bon Appetit:: Shame on you Bon Appetit. For Shame.
So I started perusing [...]
We’re back to the drawing board with ice cream! The vanilla bean we made Tuesday night was a wonderful flavor, but still not the creamy perfection we’re looking for. So we’re opening up the search to the blogosphere! As I mentioned in the previous post, the issue is that the water that naturally exists in [...]
The strawberries ‘n cream recipe we tried yesterday was a great tasting flavor, but when frozen too much, the ice cream becomes icy and unscoopable. The ice cream is perfect when slightly softened.
Did I say great? I meant the BEST! strawberry ice cream I’ve EVER! TASTED! Seriously. And I fancy myself a bit of a [...]
Stop me if I’ve told you this story, but my preoccupation with ice cream is not new. I started working in ice cream around the summer of 1994. I grew up on the Jersey shore. Not THAT Jersey Shore, thank you very much, but around Ocean City, New Jersey, the “America’s Greatest Family Resort” area. [...]
I finally got around to buying the rest of the items off of our wedding registry this weekend, a full 10 months after we tied the knot. The plan was to just get the essentials, the few extra plates and glasses we needed to fill out our sets. With the extra money on the gift [...]