I wanted something light and summery, fruity and refreshing. There are plenty of fresh peaches around at the moment but I didn’t want to do peach all on it’s own. By a wonderful coincidence it’s also mango season (although you can get them all year anyway). I’d seen peaches and mangos together and so my [...]

Or What To Do When Your Brown Butter Ice Cream Refuses To Taste Like Brown Butter. I was so looking forward to making the brown butter ice cream, it’s the one I had to have on the list when I was deciding what to make for this month. It’s light, delicate nutty flavour, smooth and [...]

Who doesn’t love a glass of “bubbly” to celebrate?.. Well, actually, I don’t, I find it too dry. This wonderful sorbet however adds sugar to the mix making it sweeter, much more palatable. True champagne comes from the Champagne region of France, however American laws aren’t as strict as the French so any sparkling wine [...]

I was never a fan of rum raisin ice cream as a child, I couldn’t tell you why.. I don’t remember it having a strong rum flavour, but maybe I remember wrong as that would certainly explain it.. For some unknown reason it took me til my twenties (don’t forget, it’s legal to drink from [...]

I decided an ice cream and a sorbet a week seemed a good balance. So today is the day of the sorbet. This flavour was mostly decided on the fact that I gained a new book on ice creams and we had some strawberries in the freezer. Yes, it would be great to use fresh, [...]

July is National Ice Cream Month, as appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1984, there was no way we could let the month pass without something.. a whole month of somethings. That’s right, every food-based post for the entire month of July is going to be an ice cream or a sorbet. We figured sorbets were [...]

Bread pudding is widely considered comfort food here in the southern states, but it was something I had not experienced. I grew up with Bread and Butter pudding, which is sufficiently different. However the basic premise is the same so I was willing to give it a try. Michael made me my first bread pudding, [...]

Another variant in the pie/crumble family, the cobbler is a dish filled with usually fruit in this country, but in the UK it can be filled with meat. Then topped with biscuit (or scone) dough. There are, as with everything, disagreements over the name. Some believe it to be derived from “cobbling” something together – [...]

A few weeks ago, back at the start of the month, Michael talked about the wonders of Cafe Su Da. As a brief recap it’s a strong coffee (usually brewed from Cafe Du Monde in this area) mixed with sweetened condensed milk and poured over ice. Delicious. But strong, very strong. I can’t manage more [...]