Which is why we are taste-testing ice cream at 9am.
What.
Yesterday I mentioned the ice cream recipe I was going to try from Everyday Food's June issue. I was suspicious, and rightly so, as it turns out. A can of sweetened condensed milk, cream and vanilla?
I memorized the recipe as I read it. Open can of SCM, mix with two teaspoons of vanilla extract. Beat 2 cups of heavy cream to stiff peaks. Combine. Freeze.
The exciting part was cracking open my homemade vanilla extract since I had run out of the store-bought kind. We're closing in on the minimum "brewing" time of six weeks anyway. I also enjoyed beating the cream to stiff peaks. It sounds so violent!
V and I decided to taste-test this concoction this morning. Here's what I found:
- It's very hard. Like, some solid-arse ice cream.
- It's very sweetened-condensed-milky.
- V loved it.
- It's very rich. Almost too much so.
- After you get over the SCM part, it has a normal vanilla ice cream after-taste.
- It's very quick to make, but might be best if you were using it with some other dessert thing. Like with cake, or fruit, or... alcoholic beverages.
- In the end, as easy as it was, I'd love to find an old-school ice cream maker to crank out some real goodness.
I saw this really cute hairbow on Pinterest awhile back and have been dying to try to make one. There's no comment on who made it originally; just a link to a Flickr page of a photographer. So whoever made it- props to you.
I'll show you the finished product now, and then give you a little how-to tomorrow. Let's just say the trial run wasn't pretty. For example, when sewing, one should generally use a thread that matches your project's fabric, instead of, say, lime green, which does not. And most of the time, when sewing two pieces together, one would want to put the wrong sides facing each other, but sometimes it's fun to mix things up and put them facing the same way. Zany.
It's about three inches across. I was trying to take a picture of it in my hair, but couldn't get the angle right at all. V really needs to learn how to use my camera.
Until then, she'll play in the pool.
Maybe when the new iOS 5 software comes out for my iPhone, she'll be able to help out in the photo department. Did you watch the Apple keynote? I nerded out for an hour and watched it with G.
Apple is just the greatest. Buy their stuff.
Okay, enough free advertising!
Let's get to the goods!
I'll be a bit embarrassed if you recognize this guy. Both for myself and for you.
P.S. Minnesota, what is up?
6-7-11 *Record 103 degrees*
NOAA weather radio detailing the 103 degees at MSP. Hottest temp since July 1988. Excessive heat warning. It was also very windy today, gusts over 30 mph.
And now...
CURRENT CONDITIONS
Minneapolis, MN (55401)
53°F (11°C)
Overcast
