Ice cream around the world (and at home)
Ice cream around the world (and at home)
Like many of us, I have an inherent love of strawberries. Particularly the kind that’s bursting with childlike juicy flavor. A strawberry drink? I am there. A dessert laced with strawberries? Oh yes. A patch of strawberries for the picking? Sorry, it’s going to be […]
Written in September 2012 “I love raspberries,” my friend declared and stared at me, unleashing a magical wand in the form of a single finger. “You must make me a raspberry sorbet!” Maybe those weren’t the exact words he said or the expression he wielded. […]
“Strawberry basil or basil?” I asked my friend. “My first ice cream flavor.” “Basil,” he answered matter-of-factly. But it wasn’t only that response that made me choose basil. Due to my childhood picky self, I never discovered basil until I was in my mid-twenties. It […]
Living in the Mission neighborhood in San Francisco, horchata ice cream or ricanelas ice cream from Bi-Rite Creamery is a no brainer. But you see, my 31st flavor, the final ice cream flavor to be created in one year is dedicated to my number one […]
Instagram-ready? Absolutely. New York Times reported on this phenomenon spreading throughout the foodie clusters. What matters first is how it looks. Then second, the bonus is well how great it tastes. Their soft opening was just last week where those instagrammers can watch purveyors pour […]
“Asian pears!” my friend’s boyfriend declared. While pondering what produce to buy for a flavor for a belated Chinese New Year dinner, I spotted my friend and her boyfriend roaming through the farmers market. I described my predicament. An Asian flavor that used local produce. […]
Blood oranges, if they were only in season during Halloween, would have been perfect for my annual zombie book club meeting. Instead, I chose pomegranates to represent the bloodiness of that time of the year. But appropriately, a (belated) anti-Valentine’s day potluck theme for my […]
“A cookie must melt at the same rate as the ice cream,” an ice cream maker described early in my Ice Cream Travel Guide journey. From that moment, I learned why I hesitated at the proliferation of ice cream sandwiches between cookies. I had loved […]
Celery ice cream? It got me thinking. Celery? Green. Usually eaten raw. Almost tasteless, but with a slight herbaceous flavor. Chopped up into small bits for salads to add crunch. Usually great sliced and combined with Asian stir-fry noodles. The latter is my most prominent […]
The challenge: Bring something with a foraged ingredient. My answer: Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus ice cream! Large sweeping decks, graced with fallen leaves from tall eucalyptus trees, filled the backyard of a house in San Pablo. My parents had nicknamed this house, “Silver house” for the Silver […]
An experience. That’s what Ghirardelli is to me. For many years, San Francisco was a city that barely held any allure for me. Growing up in the suburbs, the city was “the place where my mom enjoyed shopping”. But somehow in college, I had discovered […]
I found kiwis on sale. Five for $1! In the middle of winter. In January. A summer fruit…on sale? Why? And really the final question…why not? At Evergreen Super Market (one of my favorite markets in my ‘hood), I purchased two bags of those brown […]
Having studied Spanish for over 6 years, I knew what dulce de leche meant. Sweet. Sugar. Ice cream. The literal translation is sweet of milk. I love this kind of sweet. As an ice cream maker pointed out, “nearly every ice cream shop has some […]