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 [...]

It may be October, but it’s still a good time for ice cream. CNN has an article on this point along with two delicious recipes for a pumpkin ice cream and vanilla ice cream. Spam spam spam spam spammity spaaaaaam! Why is this food still so popular? It can’t all my Monty Python’s fault! Chiquita [...]

Got given The Perfect Scoop back in July (for my birthday), yes, I asked for it. But on some level I like to think that perhaps my Mum was dropping some hints for when she next visits! David Lebovitz is a fantastic chef, this is the only book of his that I own but I’ve [...]

It’s been a slow news week… Or I’ve just been busy and failing to collect links like I usually do… your call *grins* In very exciting local news, Bryce Gilmore, the owner and head chef of Odd Duck Farm to Trailer is opening a gastropub on South Lamar (called Barley Swine), in the space where [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

The world has become a new place, wine vending machines rolled out in Pennsylvania this week. All you have to do is have your photo taken to be matched with your state ID, and blow into the machine so they can be sure you’re not already drunk.. though why that should stop you buying more [...]