My Best of 2012 list was long and difficult to narrow down. Larry and I had a spirited discussion about what made the cut and what didn’t. At the end, we were left with eleven items that needed to be on our final favorites list. There was a lot of good food last year, though. [...]
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I’ve made cinnamon ice cream before, and it’s probably one of Larry’s favorite ice cream flavors. Searching my ever-growing collection of ice cream cookbooks, I came across this recipe for cinnamon brittle ice cream. The base is a standard custard – cream, milk, sugar, egg yolk. There’s some ground cinnamon that’s added after the base [...]
I rarely make vanilla ice cream – I’m too tempted by other flavors to settle with vanilla. But I had caramel on my mind, and vanilla ice cream is the perfect vehicle for caramel. I used a pretty simple vanilla gelato recipe, although I think gelato actually isn’t supposed to contain cream. This is a [...]
I’m a fan of beer in desserts, and my track record is proof. Guinness ice cream and cake, in particular. Something about stout and chocolate, it’s just a great combination. The Butter Beer recipe intrigued me. Oatmeal stout (I didn’t have any, so I used Guinness), molasses, brown butter. It all sounds good to me. [...]
This is probably one of the more mainstream recipes out of the Humphrey Slocombe book – especially if you’re not sure about salt in desserts and decide to just leave it out. In that case, it’s just a great chocolate ice cream. The base starts out with a caramel (that gets high marks in my [...]
Sometimes it’s just best to play it safe and make things that are easy and that you know are good. For this week’s Siren SeaSA delivery (fresh salmon), we did just that. A simple glaze and grilled on a cedar plank is all it needs. And on the side, I made yet another kale salad [...]
I make a lot of ice cream, but I rarely make shakes. I’m not sure why – it’s just a drinkable form of ice cream. Many shakes include milk, so there’s an extra bump in calcium and protein as well (I’ve even been known to eat ice cream for breakfast!). I decided to make this [...]
I’m on my annual quest to harvest and use up as much of our neighbor’s lavender as possible. She’s got several hundred plants, and this year, we’ve got two hives stationed next to her house. The bees are going nuts over the lavender – I could stand there for hours watching them, but then it [...]
This is the first flavor I’ve made out of the book by the legendary Bi-Rite Creamery. It’s absolutely delicious. The recipes in the book are interesting – most call for 1% or 2% instead of whole milk, and many include tapioca syrup (instead of corn syrup). Corn syrup isn’t usually an ingredient in most homemade [...]
Vanilla ice cream is a great way to test out a base recipe for ice cream. This one uses a higher ratio of dairy to eggs, and resulted in a slightly icier texture than I’d like. Ice cream is funny – it needs just enough fat for a smooth, creamy texture, but if it has [...]
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