I don’t have many fancy gadgets in the kitchen — sous-vide cooking and flavored foams just seem like too much work to me — but I consider my ice cream maker to be an indispensable culinary aid. Ditto for my blender. If you have those two kitchen helpers, making ice cream becomes ridiculously easy. Not [...]
While it may seem odd to be making ice cream when it’s getting cold outside, I say what the heck — damned tasty ice cream is damned tasty any time of the year. And you can always stand over/in front of the heating vent while you’re eating your ice cream. It’s fun to play up [...]
Continue reading about Blueberry Bliss (and Buttermilk, Too!)
It is riDICulously hot! Unless perhaps you’re reading this in Antarctica, in which case I’m a bit jealous. (Although I admit I’d rather be grumping about heat than cold.) Then again, a happy consequence of the heat is that ice cream keeps sounding better and better! Especially when you’re talking cream from pastured cows, tastily [...]
Continue reading about Raspberries + Chocolate = Summertime Bliss
I have a new favorite ingredient! (Although I’ll admit that as a recipe developer, I tend to have a new favorite ingredient every two weeks or so…) I’ve been using my Ingredient of the Month in everything from desserts to dinners to baked goods. What’s my latest culinary love? Goat’s-milk yogurt. It has that distinctive [...]
Continue reading about Trading the Moo! for a Baa! in Your Ice Cream
I was lucky — as a kid, I had the pleasure of visiting a local ice cream shop that made (and still makes, as far as I know) its own ice cream. It was creamier and tastier than anything you could buy in a store. Although all of their flavors were fantastic, my far-and-away favorite [...]
Even with plug-in ice cream makers that churn the mix all on their own — as opposed to the old-fashioned, human-powered crank models — making ice cream can still be a challenge, especially if you’re not adding heaps of sugar and fillers. (Both of which lower the freezing point and keep the ice cream scoopable [...]
I love ice cream. (Who doesn’t?) I love chocolate. (Ditto.) Lately, I had the best chocolate ice cream I’d ever tasted — it was silky and creamy beyond belief and hinted at a little something past the cocoa. The secret, I figured out after the third spoonful, was that it was made with coconut milk [...]
Ice cream is one of those things that can either be horrible — made of cheap fillers, refined sugars, and low-quality, hormone- and antibiotic-laden milk — or can be nothing short of lush. It is, however, very difficult to find lush ice cream. (The reason I joined a cowshare program to get top-notch, grass-fed, beyond-organic [...]
Continue reading about Forget the Newtons, Go for the Ice Cream
Ice cream has to be one of the true joys of summer. (If you’re like me and love pumpkin ice cream, it’s also one of fall’s pleasures.) As much as I enjoyed the occasional scoop or two, however, I was getting dissatisfied with commercial ice cream–waaaay too much sugar and way too many unnecessary additives. [...]
