It’s your birthday
This week was my son’s birthday. His favorite food is pizza, so for three days, he literally ate pizza for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I feel less guilty about this now that I know that pizza is a...
View ArticleDrambuie & dolce de leche ice cream with bittersweet chocolate
drambuie ice cream I’m a huge fan of ice cream. I can’t think of a more enduringly perfect food. I worked in an ice cream parlor for an embarrassing number of years, long after I should have gotten a...
View ArticleChikoo ice cream
Chikoo ice cream Chikoo (also called sapota) are not the prettiest fruit.They’re brown and mottled and slightly furry. I’m not sure what possessed me to buy two of them on our super-bodega traveling...
View ArticleBrown butter caramel ice cream with chocolate chips
Brown butter – chocolate chip ice creamThis is a story of redemption! This is a story of ice cream that lost its way, somewhere on the journey, but found it again to become glorious. (And was then...
View ArticlePastry cream ice cream
Apricot – cassis ice cream I’m absurdly excited about this! I feel like it’s a major culinary breakthrough! I’m sure that either people have been doing it for centuries, or there’s some reason they...
View ArticleIsaac’s sweet and spicy ice cream
sweet and spicy ice cream“What kind of ice cream shall we make?” I asked Isaac. “Carrot ice cream!” He said with a giggle. Little does he know that I actually plan to make carrot ice cream some day!...
View ArticleSpicy champagne mango ice cream
Spicy champagne mango ice creamHey! It’s a funny word, isn’t it? On its own it doesn’t mean anything–it’s not much of a word, really. Given the right inflection, it can speak volumes. Are you getting...
View ArticleMeyer lemon and clementine ice cream with pecan praline
Meyer lemon and clementine ice cream with pecan pralineIn September 1956, Life Magazine published a Photo Essay called The Restraints: Open and Hidden. The photographs, by Gordon Parks, show the...
View ArticleNutmeg gingerbread ice cream
“Our family is the most powerful in the world.” It’s a lazy morning over Christmas break and Malcolm and I are sitting together on the couch under a blanket and under Clio. We’re both just waking up,...
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