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Strawberry Ice Cream Premium Recipe
I recently tried this premium recipe for Strawberry Ice Cream from The Ciao Bella Book of Gelato and Sorbetto: Bold, Fresh Flavors to Make at Home. It’s a lot more complicated than the simple Strawberry Ice Cream recipe I previously posted but it’s so much richer and yields a lot more. Here is my version…
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Blackberry Sorbet
We just got several pints of sweet juicy blackberries. We ate the first pint the day the berries were picked. The rest of them went into Blackberry Sorbet that will last us for as long as it’s in the freezer. We love it so much; I doubt it will be in there too long. Here…
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Apricot Sorbet
A few days ago I was visiting my aunt and found her apricot tree heavy with fruit. My daughter and I helped ourselves to the ripest ones. “If you touch it and it just gives itself to you, then it’s ready.” We came home with a shopping bag full of ripe apricots. Here’s what I…
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Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe
July is National Ice Cream Month! I’m going to start things off with the simplest and surprisingly most popular ice cream flavor in the world, Vanilla. Here’s the recipe: Ingredients: 2 cups of raw milk 1 cup of raw cream 4 egg yolks 3/4 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Combine milk and cream in…
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Lemon Sorbette
What do you do with an abundance of lemons in the summer? Lemon Sorbette! I tried this recipe from The Ciao Bella Book of Gelato and Sorbetto: Bold, Fresh Flavors to Make at Home. Here’s my version: Ingredients: 2 cups water 2 cups organic sugar 1 cup freshly squeezed organic lemon juice (from about 6…
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Strawberry Sorbet
I love strawberries! This year we live close to strawberry farm gardens and we’re able to buy several quarts of sweet strawberries harvested on the same day. In my house, that means ice cream and sorbet! I’ve posted my recipe for Strawberry Ice Cream before. Today I’m posting my recipe for Strawberry Sorbet. Sweet! Ingredients:…
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Halo Halo Ice Cream
Ingredients: 1 cup whole milk 1/2 cup sugar 1 jar Halo Halo 16 oz (Mixed Sweet Beans from Asian stores) 2 cups heavy cream, chilled 1 tsp vanilla extract Follow manufacturer’s instructions on how to prepare your ice cream maker. 1. Heat whole milk in a medium saucepan until it bubbles around the edges. 2.…
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Strawberry Ice Cream
I consider myself lucky because my local farmers market has an abundance of the sweetest organic strawberries I’ve ever tasted. Harvested on the same day, these strawberries are ripe when I buy them. Much of the berries are eaten same day by my voracious family, but when there’s still at least a pint left, I…
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Chocolate Ice Cream
Chocolate is my guilty pleasure. I always have to think twice about buying it, and when I do it’s always with a deep breath first before I dive in. So when I made this Chocolate Ice Cream, I put twice as much chocolate as I originally intended. If I am going to feel guilty about…
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Pistachio Ice Cream
I love my Pistachio Ice Cream! It is a simple recipe, and does away with the green food coloring that you will find in store-bought pistachio ice cream. The pistachios chop up into a fun confetti of green, yellow and pink to make the ice cream look sprinkled with pastel colored nuts. Ingredients: 1 cup…