I would love to claim that I came up with this idea, but sadly I didn’t. I came across a new food blog, Almost Bourdain, amongst all the beautiful dishes, there was popcorn ice cream. This was a revelation, I needed to make it and I needed to make it now! I skipped the caramel [...]

I’m a bit of a fan of mixing sweet and savoury, I haven’t done a whole lot of it but the idea intrigues me and I’ve liked what I have tried. Bacon seems to be a trend at the moment, it’s in everything. So I figured why not join the club and give it a [...]

Pumpkin ice cream is a little confusing, the flavours, the warmth of the spices all taste like pumpkin pie. But pumpkin pie has neither this texture, or the temperature of the ice cream! To have something that is cold, frozen in fact, but gives off a warmth tricks the palate so it no longer knows [...]

I wanted to end the month with chocolate, I’ve managed to stay off it the entire month which is quite a feat for me! Wanting to make a slight twist rather than a ‘plain old’ chocolate ice cream I decided to make a sorbet instead. So, as a bonus this is dairy and egg free, [...]

Caramel refers of course to cooked sugar, specifically sugar that has been cooked to the 320°-350°F range so it is an amber to golden colour. The word caramel was first recorded in 1725, it comes from the Spanish caramelo. The source of caramelo is unknown, but some believe it is related to the Latin calamellus, [...]

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 [...]