May 4th, 2005 - Ice cream

Sorry I haven’t written much lately. Been busy…..

I bought an ice cream maker via Amazon last week; it should arrive today which means homemade ice cream tomorrow! On the financial side: I should have checked EBay first. I’m doing a little buying/selling there right now and it didn’t even cross my mind. I found one going for $10, 3 hours before it ended, brand new. I would have saved $40 if I’d seen it. Aaargh. I got the CuisiPro Donvier, which is non-electric. Also non-ice/salt.

On the food side: We don’t eat a lot of ice cream, but making it at home will means it’s healthier for us. No funny unnatural ingredients. And I’m looking forward to trying lower fat ices and serbets. I bought two books–one is Ben and Jerry’s and their recipes are quite high in fat (plus raw eggs). But we do love their ice cream in moderation so I hope we can make something resembling the real thing. Also got another one that talks about the history of ice creams and after 200 recipes has a chapter on ice cream physics/chemistry so you can make your recipes! That sounds like fun!

I’ll let you know Friday if the banana ice cream (recipe from Alton Brown/Good Eats) is any good….

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2 Responses to “Ice cream”

  1. Karen M. Says:
    May 10th, 2005 at 6:41 am EDT

    While you’re making ice cream, have you tried making your own baby food? My son was born 10/21/04 and that’s my “home cooking” project. It’s been very easy to do. However, I need to use up the Gerber organic baby food that I bought at the store too. He’s not a very big eater at this point.
    So far I’ve done sweet potatoes, peaches and pears (using fruit from cans with the light syrup washed off, not the greatest) Next I will do peas, but not until DS eats what we have on hand.

  2. Karen M. Says:
    May 10th, 2005 at 6:43 am EDT

    Speaking of homemade, have you tried making your own baby food? My son was born 10/21/04 and I noticed you have a young daughter. We’ve made sweet potatoes, peaches and pears (from cans with the juice rinsed off), and it’s so easy! As for ice cream, I have thought of getting a maker and maybe will once DS gets older and more into sweet treats.

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