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Category Archives: ice cream

Une petite glace à l’amande avec les financiers.

Before I start in on ice cream & financiers & such, I just wanna say that Jay is home from Switzerland! In case you didn’t know, Mr. Rockstar was over there playing a music festival in Muotathal. He’s safe & sound back in New York now. It’s nice to have him back in the same [...]


August 22, 2011

‘Vanille français’ sounds nice, ‘curd’ does not.

It really doesn’t. It sounds gross. Curd. Go on, say it. Curd. It rhymes with ‘turd’ for Christ’s sakes! What kind of name is that for something as smooth, delicious and lovely as this? … ‘This’ being David Lebovitz‘s “improved” lemon curd. For those of you not in-the-know about fruit curd, here’s a little Wikipedia [...]


July 08, 2011

Aint Tee’s Luscious Lemon ice cream. Hells yeah.

A few months ago my friend Rain recommended to me a book called Sweets: Soul Food Desserts & Memories by Patty Pinner. Rain made a Facebook post about the Dr. Pepper cake and I was sold on the book and HAD to have it. I mean, look at that cover! It’s amazing, and I know [...]


June 11, 2011

I scream, you scream, we all scream for…

PEANUT BUTTER FORKIN’ ICE CREAM!! Of course my new ice cream maker has sort of taken over my life. I knew this would happen- first of all, it being summer, what could be better than homemade ice cream? Second, it being summer, what could be better than a delicious treat that doesn’t require baking in [...]


August 18, 2010

Daring Baker’s Challenge: Chocolate Valentino (flourless chocolate cake) & homemade ice cream.

This months’ Daring Baker’s challenge wasn’t really all that much of a challenge for me because I’ve already made flourless chocolate cake, so I was familiar with it. Of course, this one is very different from the one I made. This one, popularized by Chef Wan, is dense and fudgy and brownie-like, mine was more [...]


February 28, 2009