Long before my (relatively recent) obsession with Japan I developed a taste for matcha, the very finely powdered green tea that is at the heart of the Japanese tea ceremony. There are a number of different types of green tea in Japan. Some tea leaves are deliberately grown in shade for at least the last ... Read more »
I first encountered basil ice cream on holiday in Islay in 2006. It’s a great flavour for a sweet ice cream, even though it’s a flavour we most strongly associate with savoury! Basil Ice Cream Regular readers will know that I am not one to insist that everything always has to be from scratch. Instead of ... Read more »
My walnut brittle was so delicious it’s a miracle I managed to set some aside to make ice cream as planned! Once again, I opted to use fresh ready made vanilla custard as my base, adding coffee, rum and walnut brittle. Because Pete isn’t a huge fan of nuts, I made the coffee and rum ... Read more »
I love chocolate. I love amaretto liqueur. And I love amaretti (macaroon biscuits). This month, I combined all three to make a very simple, very quick and very delicious ice cream. Incidentally, whilst amaretti biscuits are traditionally made from almonds, amaretto liqueur, which has a similar almond flavour, is commonly made from apricot pits, with ... Read more »
One of the things that most excites me about the Zoku ice lolly maker is the ability to make ice lollies with shells made of a different liquid than the filling. I don’t mean chocolate-dipping finished lollies, but actual layers like you find in a Walls Solero or this clever gelatin-wrapped Chinese lolly. The first ... Read more »
This month’s Bloggers Scream For Ice Cream challenge theme is chocolate. Instead of making a straight chocolate ice cream, I decided on mint choc chip as it’s a flavour I love but have never made before. Of course, it couldn’t be just any mint choc chip, oh no! I envisaged a triple mint affair using ... Read more »
Fellow chocolate fiend Chloe, The Faerietale Foodie, was unable to make the Gaggia coffee and ice cream event I attended several weeks ago. (A 5pm start for a blogger event does rule out most bloggers, who have full time jobs alongside their food blogs). Initially, she was most disappointed about missing the coffee half of ... Read more »
As I’ve mentioned on a previous #icecreamwednesday, I was recently given a Gaggia ice cream machine to review for a few weeks over summer. One of the things I love about the machine is not needing to freeze a bowl or disk 24-48 hours in advance. I can make ice cream whenever I want as ... Read more »
The Place of Onions, in old Lille. After last night’s rainstorm the intense sticky heat has broken and today is cool, breezy, fresh… I love it! A drop of… [more]
We went to Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire at The Void this morning, an amazing VR experience where we got to be Rebel Alliance members going undercover as… [more]