My ice cream making parcours - part two
I realized that good ice cream wasn't about the machine itself, but about finding the good recipes. Ice Cream... was full of inspiring pictures and had flavors I had never heard of in Europe (Rocky road, banana/toffee,...) and quite funky sounding ones (bay leaf/macaroon, strawberry/lavender) as well as tons of decoration tips, cookies, and all. The batches were small enough to fit into the machine but we would get a couple of very satisfying scoops.
A side effect was an increasing lack of interest for commercial ice creams and frozen desserts. Besides Ola's vanilla Fermette, we very rarely buy any. Their flashy packages poorly masked the lack of taste. We had to turn to imported ones. Haagen Dasz wasn't that special - not special enough to be that expensive, that is. We found our bonheur in Ben and jerry's.
My sister and I drooled for months in front of the video store's freezers once we found out they sold them. They aren't available in general supermarkets (though a quick visit to the belgian B&J site just now informed me that Carrefour is starting to selling them this very month!). We picked the whackiest flavor they had - I can't find it in their flavor graveyard, but I remember it had fudge, chocolate and marshmallow bits, marshmallow swirl with a chocolate ice cream base... or something. That was... overwhelming. But great! We chose simpler (dare I say wiser?) ones after that. : grins :
A side effect was an increasing lack of interest for commercial ice creams and frozen desserts. Besides Ola's vanilla Fermette, we very rarely buy any. Their flashy packages poorly masked the lack of taste. We had to turn to imported ones. Haagen Dasz wasn't that special - not special enough to be that expensive, that is. We found our bonheur in Ben and jerry's.
My sister and I drooled for months in front of the video store's freezers once we found out they sold them. They aren't available in general supermarkets (though a quick visit to the belgian B&J site just now informed me that Carrefour is starting to selling them this very month!). We picked the whackiest flavor they had - I can't find it in their flavor graveyard, but I remember it had fudge, chocolate and marshmallow bits, marshmallow swirl with a chocolate ice cream base... or something. That was... overwhelming. But great! We chose simpler (dare I say wiser?) ones after that. : grins :
posted by dumoria at 21:16
2 Comments:
I really need to get myself an ice cream maker, it seems that everyone on the blogosphere is making their own ice cream.
Good luck with your future ice cream escapades
Thank you! I have Rhum Raisin planned for next week. : grins :
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