Ice cream

We've been hard at work studying how to make ice cream with our new Cuisinart ice cream maker.
We made our first batch Jan 31st, and it was a good time that ended with excitement for the future flavors. But first, we wanted to see if we could get the important basics down, so we made vanilla. It was Sunday pizza night as well (we've been making our own dough and creating some yummy pies.) Here, you'll get to see how the whole meal came out:


Pretty good, huh?

Here's the Cuisinart in action:

This machine has a compressor that chills the pot to freeze the ice cream. I can't say it's a ton different than the rock-salt on ice models, it's just easier and better looking to store out on the counter top in the kitchen, and, possibly, it gives you a bit more control.

Batch #2
We got a bit more adventurous this past weekend, and we made a fave flavor... coffee. The cool part here was steeping the whole coffee beans in warmed cream to extract the roasted flavor. I wish we got a picture of the floating coffee beans. And, when all was done, it got rave reviews at the Super Bowl party. A delicious raosted coffee flavor. Those are coffee grinds you see mixed in. I didn't get to sleep till almost 2am after eating this much. Vrrrroooommmm!