
It’s sunny today and we’re taking advantage by going out for ice cream. This is a last minute NOT. Please forgive me for the brevity and lack of inspiration.
What are you up to tonight?
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What’s your favorite ice cream flavor or combo?
Moose Tracks. Nothing else comes close.
I had to look that up. That’s what we ate growing up, except it was called by the more prosaic and wordy “peanut butter fudge swirl.”
The “Moose Tracks” part of the ice cream is actually a brand name of fudge. Otherwise, it probably would be called peanut butter fudge swirl.
Not to keep repeating myself, but I served your rice and beans tonight and that dish is always a huge hit! @HammerZeitgeist
I feel silly but I can’t remember which recipe that was???
@HammerZeitgeist sigh because it was a @bigdamnheroes recipe. It is super tasty.
Oh hey. I haven’t been around for (checks comment history) 3 months, but I was just thinking about you all earlier this week, so it was a nice coincidence to get a notification that I had a mention. I haven’t made those rice and beans for a while and I should.
I just started getting myself back into the kitchen a couple of weeks ago. It’s been a ton of convenient meals and take out for a while. My mental health is… not in excellent shape these days. I think I haven’t felt much like socializing, even online. I think it’s a good sign that I was thinking about you all and that I’ve been cooking? Let’s go with that. There’s tons of stressful stuff going on in my life that I could get into but for now I’ll just say: hi. Hope everyone here has been doing well.
Hey, welcome back! Hang out if you’re in the mood, we’re all glad to see you.
@bigdamnheroes it is always good to hear from you – we are all here when you are ready. Health sabbaticals are encouraged :). Sending hugs, my friend.
Mine is mint chocolate chip. I had a plum gelato in Italy about 20 years ago that I still think about and have never seen in America, not that I visit ice cream stores much.
There’s got to be a local joint within 10 blocks you can sweet talk into making some when they’re in season. But prime the pump first. Have a couple of friends stop by a couple of days beforehand and ask if they have plum gelato, so when you show up with a recipe they’ll give you freebies all summer.
You overestimate the culinary options in my neighborhood. I’m not sure there is any ice cream shop(pe) within 10 blocks of me in any direction. My best option would be to convince McDonald’s HQ to use my local one as a test kitchen for plum soft-serve, or get the local Dunkin’ to introduce a plum smoothie which I could take home, freeze, and make a sorbet out of. There is a very good (and pricey) northern Italian seafood restaurant (why I don’t know) and in the other direction the same but French; maybe one of them would go for it.
Don’t puncture my idealized vision of NYC!
@MatthewCrawley June first is now open for your jubilee pleasure!
Aaaaand now I have a firm deadline. I feel like Lois Lane under the gun to get that Superman soft profile written for the upcoming edition of the Daily Planet Sunday Magazine. I will do it!
You might get lucky and find plum “gelato” at a Japanese restaurant/ice cream shop.
I am making Grasshoppers as dessert tomorrow evening. 1 ounce creme de menthe, 1 ounce creme de cocoa, 1 ounce cream, blended with crushed ice and topped with a small melon baller sized scoop of vanilla bean ice cream and served with a mint milano cookie. Then perhaps calling the paramedics, eh?
I like dark chocolate or butter brickle ice cream, or blackberry, or cherry…Or coffee…hmm I like it all?
Those sound like a lot of work but totally worth it.
You might like one of my favorite and easiest desserts: get two dark chocolate bakery cookies and fill with cherry ice cream. The best ice cream sandwich EVER.
Mango. I want to say coffee, or Heath Bar crunch, or pure and simple chocolate. But it’s mango.
First day that the lake was warm enough to take Butcher Dog swimming. She wasted no time getting back into the groove.
@butcherbakertoiletrymaker that is a fantastic photo!
I cheated. It’s actually a screenshot of a video.
How do you stop her from breaking free and going anyway?
(and the shadow on that is awesome)
She is a very good dog and not prone to running off. Even the very few times when she escapes from the back yard she never goes farther than our neighbors’ place.
Omg
I’m a fan of pretty much all ice creams, but my absolute favourite is Baskin-Robbins chocolate peanut butter. I rarely get it, and usually settle for whatever variety of mint + chocolate that’s available, but man, I love that chocolate peanut butter.
I just tossed together a cake – peanut butter, banana, and smoked butterscotch. Based on what I licked off the spatula, it’s going to be bomb.
How do you smoke butterscotch? Or is that a brand?
I’m sure you can use a jar of butterscotch topping (or make it) and actually smoke it, but this was a huge container of smoked butterscotch topping from Starbucks that we got from the food pantry ages ago. I’ve been trying to use up some of the random crap in our pantry, and finally decided to crack into this one. I don’t know what the heck I’m going to use the rest of it for, though! Anyone have any ideas?
Use it for? I assume it should just be eaten straight from the jar.
Tbh, it’s a biiit much straight up. Both the smoke and the sweet are pretty heavy, so it blends in well when baking but, say, over ice cream it doesn’t really work for me.
I’m with you. I can’t pick a favorite because I like them all even Tiger Tail which is black licorice and orange ice cream swirled. When I worked at an ice cream shop my go to was a vanilla soft serve float in raspberry and peach slushy with extra slushy syrup poured on top.
I have never even heard of Tiger Tail ice cream, and I am now intrigued!
I just looked it up. Apparently it is a Canadian thing.
Oh! I used to get tiger tail snow cone flavor at the snow cone shack as a kid.
It was reddish orange and I have no clue how to describe the flavor. They probably just gushed like anything red/orange into the snow cone!!!
I’ve said this before and it usually draws gasps of disbelief but I could go the rest of my life without ice cream and never miss it. I don’t hate it or anything but I don’t get what the fuss is all about.
I have 2 ice cream places within an easy walk from my house, 4 if you include the gas station and the chocolate shop that also sell ice cream, 6 if you include the 2 grocery stores I can walk to.
Within a 10 minute drive? Add a Dairy Queen, Andy’s Frozen Custard, and Ted Drewes Custard. Personal opinion – Ted Drewes is extremely overrated.
Anyways, come to St Louis for the beer and humidity, stay for the diabeetus.
im currently having a breakfast icecream….a magnum almond
its helping soothe a truly monstrous hangover….guess i maybe had a little too much fun with eurovision….wich i expected to be headlining the news today…..but apparently merica merica’d again
*sigh*