With summer finally arriving in full force, June’s #BSFIC theme was fruit. As always, you shared a wonderful variety of ideas, all of which I wish I could try! (Sorry for the delay in sharing the round up; I was away in Dubrovnik at the end of the month and straight back to work on ... Read more »
Missing my monthly ice cream fix, I decided to resurrect Bloggers Scream For Ice Cream with a theme of Chasing The Ice Cream Van. Here are the lovely recipes (and stories) we shared: Karen, author of Lavender & Lovage, spent some of her childhood years in Hong Kong. In this post she remembers sneaking off, at ... Read more »
Do you remember shandy ice lollies from the ice cream van? I only ordered them occasionally, flitting between my love for cornettos, those lollies with a thick fruit shell around a vanilla ice cream core and of course, the amazing screwball with bubblegum balls at the bottom of an inverted dalek of soft white ice ... Read more »
Although the enthusiasm for making and sharing ice cream has waned somewhat during the winter, several of you still joined me in celebrating a year of BSFIC by choosing one (or more) of the previous 12 themes of the challenge. Ozzy from Light/ Bites shared a refreshing Blood Orange Slushy, taking inspiration from April’s theme ... Read more »
With thoughts of summer holidays in mind, I set the theme for August’s BSFIC as ice lollies. So eager was I to share my genius idea with you that I posted my first BSFIC post right at the beginning of the month! My Pickleback Ice Lollies (bourbon + pickled gherkin brine) were both lauded as ... 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 »
Heeeeeell, YES, I made pickleback ice lollies! And they are mighty, mighty fine! First, I made straight pickled gherkin ice lollies, inspired by an idea I came across when searching for Zoku character designs. I used pickling juice (and a little sliced gherkin) from the jar I bought back with me from Amsterdam earlier this ... 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]