Homemade ice cream, part three: Experiments with cherry ice cream with chocolate chips

August 9, 2011

It all started when I saw an online recipe for cherry ice cream with chocolate chips, one of my most favorite flavors. The recipe involved steeping milk with fresh cherries, then pureeing the mixture, then adding cream. This made the ice cream “base” which then got cooled and processed in an ice cream maker, with chocolate chips stirred in at the end.
Right away, I was suspicious.

Homemade ice cream, part two: Fruit ice cream

August 2, 2011

Today we’re going to talk about fruit ice cream. As I said in that last post, fruit ice cream is one step more complicated than basic ice cream – but only that.

Summer project: Homemade ice cream

July 28, 2011

Have I ever told you that ice cream is my favorite food? That I eat it almost every day? That I only hesitatingly admit to, more than once, eating a whole pint in one evening? That, as much as I like all desserts, at the end of a nice meal at a nice restaurant, no matter what’s on the dessert menu, I almost always order ice cream?

It’s sweet, it’s cold, it’s creamy, it’s refreshing. What more could you want?

Spring project: Clean out your spice drawer!

May 25, 2011

Why? Because just like the rest of us, dried herbs and spices get old and tired. After about six months, or a year at the most, they don’t have the same vim and vigor that newer, fresher spices have. And so they need to be replaced.