As I pedaled my bike home from Apple Land, I thought about my cache of groceries. An enormous Fuji apple, a half-loaf of square, fluffy super-white Japanese bread, a Continue Reading
How To Make Your Own Pumpkin Puree
It is pumpkin season. Time for pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread and pumpkin cookies and pumpkin ice cream! Since I am a snob, I do not buy the pumpkin in the cans. Some Continue Reading
Do You Really Need an Ice Cream Maker? Yes. Yes You Do.
"Need" is such a strong word. We are often told to balance our "wants" with our "needs," and to learn to distinguish between the two. Today I will endeavor to prove to Continue Reading
Pie Crust for Ice Cream, Or How I Defeated (Sort of) My Nemesis
Pie crust is my nemesis. If I wrote odes of odiousness about food, pie crust would be at the top of the list. Actually, that is not true. Squid would be at the top of the Continue Reading
Indian Spice Ice Cream
Have any of you read the "Tiger's Curse" series? It's like a mash-up of Indiana Jones and Twilight, minus the vampires. Insert two 300-year-old Indian princes (from the Continue Reading
To Egg or Not to Egg—This is the Question
Vanilla Ice Cream With Eggs by Ice Cream and Inspiration. Do you prefer vanilla ice cream with eggs or without? Read my observations, then come to your own Continue Reading
Classic Chocolate Ice Cream–The “Father Adam” of Ice Cream
From Adam and Eve sprang the family of the whole earth. From Vanilla and Chocolate spring the family of all ice cream. (Well, not technically, but just go Continue Reading
Classic Vanilla Ice Cream–The “Mother Eve” of Ice Cream
Just as DNA holds the building blocks of life, there are building blocks to ice cream. Almost all ice creams get their start with one of two Continue Reading
Oh, Now I Get It! How This Blog Works
This is a blog about ice cream. That is self-evident. Not unlike certain tenets of the Declaration of Independence. O.K. This blog actually has nothing to do with the Continue Reading