Adventures in Ice Cream
I’m an unreliable, inconsistent (and apologetic if you can’t tell) blogger these days, which is a shame because I have many lovely food adventures to catch you up on. In my defense, I’ve just been the busiest of bees, but I’ve been swamped with all sorts of awesome things.
Anyway…recently, after telling a friend that I was planning to make bacon ice cream, she calmly told me that the weird flavor thing is fine– I’m allowed to have a quarter life crisis.
Is that what this is?? Probably not. It’s nothing new. I’ve been combining unlikely flavors for as long as I can remember. Perogies & blue cheese dressing. Cheeze-its & honey. Don’t knock till you try.
I think I’ll take advantage of turning 25 this week by using it as an excuse for flavor combo projects that 90% of people would gag over. I don’t think that counts as a quarter life crisis, but I’ll take it. Rather than have an emotional breakdown or throw a fit about professional worries and “The Future”, I think I’ll just do more quirky things and get away with them by pretending they’re a byproduct of some elusive crisis mode.
This season, I’m really excited about ice cream. Perhaps it’s a denial of the impending cold weather, or just a wonderful rediscovery of the ice cream maker in my apartment, but I’m all about funky flavors these days.
A few nights ago, I made a delicious coffee-brownie ice cream, adapted from Group Recipes, for the folks out there with normal, predictable palates…but that was a one time deal.
Here’s the list:
- Bacon-maple ice cream (idea stolen from Burton’s Grill)
- Cilantro-coconut ice cream with crushed cashews and lime
- Raspberry-chipotle ice cream
- Guinness ice cream with fudge
- Honey goat cheese ice cream
- Ginger plum ice cream
- Mexican chile & dark chocolate ice cream
When I was googling bacon ice cream recipes, I came across Ice Cream Fellow, which is a ridiculously amazing blog source for inspiration. Although I just saw a recipe link for coleslaw sorbet, which is a bit much, even for me.
I’ll keep you posted on my progress…
I was all excited to read about ice cream, cause as you know, I am a bit of an ice cream aficionado… so for those of us who are (far) older than you, knock off the “quarter life crisis” bit… ain’t gonna get you any sympathy with the “pushing 40″ crowd, missy!
:)
Plus, you don’t have any professional worries – I hear you have a great boss who would love to have you stick around a long, long time.
Dude. Ew.
Haha, well I like most of them (or it sounds like I would) but not the bacon or the cheese one. Or Guinness, but I hate Guinness.
My sister likes chocolate with bacon in it. It’s funny cuz we were raised kosher.
xoxo
My friend just told me about the Brooklyn Bacon-off.
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Also, were you inspired with the ginger plum by that thing I sent you? Mexican chile dark chocolate sounds incredible, as does the Guinness fudge. I have a recipe for Guinness ganache cupcakes if you’d like it :)
Okay, as a vegetarian, I have to judge.
But the concept of salt and sugar combined is not remotely weird. That’s why chocolate and peanut butter work so well together, as do fries and ice cream or popcorn and soda.
Kerri, I totally agree! But I’m always surprised by how many people are super freaked about the idea of fries and ice cream.
Honey goat cheese sounds amazing. Keep us updated!
Pierogies and blue cheese dressing? Never thought of that but those are two of my favorites. Sounds delicious!
thanks for the tip (and the sudden hunger pangs).
You know, I think Manchester might be a bit lacking in the ice cream dept. Care to open a biz on Main St? The mexican chile / chocolate combo sounds especially delicious! And having had guiness gelato at one time, I’m sure it’d be good in ice cream form too :)
Ooh the Guiness sounds great. You could also make Guiness floats (great at a summer picnic). Also check out Humphry Slocombe for inspiration, love their flavors. When can I order some from you ;)