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Desserts & Ice Creams

Strawberries

5 Things to Do with Those Strawberries (and a Sorbet Recipe)

June 22, 2011 Desserts & Ice Creams

People I work with should know better than to tell me what came in the CSA this week. I’m the human equivalent of snakes in a can when it comes to talking about ingredients and produce, particularly at this time of year, when my long lost friends – greens! asparagus! strawberries! – finally come back [...]

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Richest chocolate ice cream

Richest Chocolate Ice Cream

December 5, 2010 Desserts & Ice Creams

December can be an extra-stressful month. I know that my day job kicks into high gear and on top of that, there are gifts to buy, things to bake, get-togethers to attend, and houses to clean and decorate. Seeing family and friends for celebrations is rewarding, but it can also be exhausting. So when the world is going too fast, when there’s too much to do, when it seems like every hour there are new demands on you… that’s when simplicity is more than just a virtue. It’s a downright necessity. This chocolate ice cream is simple.

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Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream

Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream

August 29, 2010 Desserts & Ice Creams

This ice cream will satisfy any chocolate and peanut butter craving. It’s like a Reese’s sundae all made up and waiting for you: vanilla ice cream with chocolate and peanut butter swirls and chunks of peanut butter cup.

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Peanut Butter Sauce

Peanut Butter Sauce for Ice Cream

August 24, 2010 Desserts & Ice Creams

Caramel sauces like this are about as close as my kitchen gets to chemistry class. For caramel, you actually get to see the reactions taking place that turn an everyday ho-hum ingredient – white sugar – into a rich, delicious candy. Then make it even better by adding peanut butter!

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Spice Cream and Three Lessons

June 21, 2009 Desserts & Ice Creams

Now that it’s summer again and work is on the ramp-down phase, I am back in the kitchen. Specifically, I am packing the freezer so full of plastic quart containers of homemade ice cream that the thing barely shuts. When I read about vanilla black pepper ice cream in Molly’s amazing new book, I knew it would be on the top of my summer ice cream list.

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Daring Bakers: Strawberry-Rhubarb Strudel

May 27, 2009 Desserts & Ice Creams

My parents garden a lot now, but when I was younger I only remember a spiky tuft of chives and three big mounds of rhubarb, whose giant poisonous leaves would taunt me. I wondered why you would ruin a perfectly delicious quart of strawberries with the stuff. As usual, my parents just laughed and said “More for us.”

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Magical Mint Ice Cream

December 2, 2008 Desserts & Ice Creams

Fresh mint ice cream is light years from the chemical confection I grew up loving, which I realize now tastes more like toothpaste than actual mint. Because, you see, mint is an herb. A plant. Something that grows in the ground. Something that artificial peppermint extract and green food coloring are not.

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Youneeda Peach Sorbita

August 20, 2008 Desserts & Ice Creams

In the dead of summer, when you don’t have air conditioning, when the cats are sprawling out under the ceiling fan and begging you to unzip their coats… this girl has no problems with granitas.

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Strawberry-Balsamic Rhapsody, Part Two

August 20, 2008 Desserts & Ice Creams

I don’t actually eat that much ice cream, but boy-oh-boy do I love to make it. I love that magical instant, somewhere around 15 minutes in the machine, when it goes from liquid to creamy-fluff-goodness. I love the variety of textures that fresh-made ice cream and sorbet might carry. And I love saying “I made ice cream.” It just sounds awesome.

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Mixer = Meringue = Perfect Pavlovas

August 4, 2008 Desserts & Ice Creams

After 6 mixerless months, what prompted me to bite the bullet and set down $35 at Target for a stainless-steel, jet-engine shaped hand mixer* with its own storage stand? Easy: I had no fewer than 5 tupperwares of egg whites in my freezer. It’s a well-known fact that the only thing to do with this much egg white is make meringues. It’s an equally well-known fact that and making meringue without a mixer is borderline masochistic, and that’s just not my bag.

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