This is my first OFFICIAL post since joining the Tuesday’s with Dorie blogging event. For those of you who don’t know, every Tuesday the group bakes/makes a recipe from the great baking book called Baking: From My Home To Yours .
This week’s selection involves a recent obsession of mine . . . ICE CREAM. I have never really been motivated to make my own ice cream until this year. I have always been satisfied with whatever Ben & Jerry’s or Haagen Daaz put out. But, like with all things culinary I started to think about different flavor combinations and saw a ton of recipes popping up in Cooking Light and other locations. I have also read along with Cookie Baker Lynn and all of her ice cream adventures with David Lebovitz’s book the Perfect Scoop. So when I was at Costco I noticed a very beautiful ice cream maker from Cuisinart for only $50. I came home immediately and started researching ice cream makers (even if it was only $50 if it was not a good maker, it wasn’t worth the money). But it received great reviews, so I returned later that week and purchased my new toy. I also went out and got a couple of books including Lebovitz’s and immediately set to work mastering ice cream.
The first batch took a couple of days to come together, getting the rhythm for cooking and chilling the custard and the ice cream maker bowl. But the next day I made up several different custards and made a different batch every day that week. This left me with a very full freezer, luckily my co-workers happily enjoyed a little impromptu ice cream party and my freezer returned to manageable size. So I was thrilled with the idea of making ice cream this week for TWD. However, I was a little less than excited about the ingredients. Blueberries are just not my favorite! I enjoy them in the occassional bread or muffin, but the idea of eating pure blueberry ice cream just did not appeal to me!
Boy was I wrong! This is delicious, the sour cream really balances out the berries which I think are a little too sweet for my palate. I think I have always had them in pancakes, pies or compotes and they were too sweet. Also they always tasted a little metallic to me, which leads me to believe people were cooking them in reactive cookware.
So, Dorie, I am a blueberry convert! Thanks for the reminder, that it is not necessarily the ingredient but the preparation that can make or break an ingredient!
For the rest of you go buy the book, an ice cream maker and make this . . . . you will be a very happy person!
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August 13, 2008 at 4:30 am
pamela
Welcome to TWD!! Glad your first recipe was a tasty success! Enjoy your new ice cream maker.
August 13, 2008 at 11:37 am
Hannah
Ah yes I love ice cream as well! Glad you enjoyed it!
August 13, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Claudia
Welcome to TWD and the world of blueberry lovers 😉
Love the colour of your ice cream!
August 13, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Stephanie
Welcome to the group!! I am so glad that you liked this weeks challenge, and your ice cream looks awesome! I love your bowl 🙂
August 13, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Jaime
welcome to TWD! i have been pleasantly surprised by dorie time and time again… that’s what i love about the group – it challenges me to try things i would not otherwise try
August 14, 2008 at 7:18 am
Sharon - Butcher, Baker......
Welcome to TWD! I too am a blueberry convert since joining the TWD. I loved the blueberry pie, this ice cream….now I am excited to try different fruits that I didn’t care for in the past.
August 14, 2008 at 8:12 am
nancy/noe
Ice cream – what a fun obsession! And how cool that your preconceived ideas were proven wrong. There are so many different reactions to this recipe! Welcome to TWD.
August 22, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Dolores
Welcome, welcome, WELCOME! I’m glad your first TWD experience was a good one, and I’m honored it was the recipe I chose. Great job!