banana ice cream

Banana Ice Cream

If I were to get stuck on an island with only one kind of fruit-bearing tree, I would hope and pray it was banana. Believe it or not, bananas are considered berries. In tropical countries like

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peppermint stick ice cream

Peppermint Stick Ice Cream

Sure it’s cold outside, but here in our house we turn our leftover candy cane into… Peppermint Stick Ice Cream From The Ciao Bella Book of Gelato and Sorbetto: Bold, Fresh Flavors to Make at Home:

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Peppermint Ice Cream

I know it’s cold outside, but when you have leftover peppermint candy cane, something must be done. Peppermint Ice Cream From The Ciao Bella Book of Gelato and Sorbetto: Bold, Fresh Flavors to Make at Home

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Cranberry Apple Crisp

It’s Christmas Eve, the wee one is asleep and we’re finishing up the last of the presents. Time for a little midnight snack. This Cranberry Apple Crisp makes kissing by the Christmas tree taste so good!

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Chocolate S’mores Ice Cream

One of my family’s fondest summer memories is of roasting marshmallows on an open fire. My husband had built a fire pit behind our cabin in Maine, just a few steps away from the lake shore.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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