We All Scream For Ice Cream

Tonight I'm taking a break from the book club posts to talk about ice cream, and not just any ice cream, but my 'I Bought Way Too Many Oranges & I Don't Know What To Do With Them' ice cream.  Catchy huh?  Ben & Jerry's will be banging down my door in no time!

I've been planning for this first spoonful of frozen bliss since moment I unwrapped my ice cream maker two LONG weeks ago.  Not wanting to take this maiden ice cream voyage casually I spent hours searching through cookbooks, magazines and websites looking for a creation worthy of the event.  But in the end, with the heavy cream in the fridge and the bowl ready and waiting, I decided to forgo excitement and make plain-old strawberry ice cream.

I made it as far as rinsing the strawberries when I noticed that I had an enormous mound of oranges smothering the life out of a few defenseless bananas. 

"Look at all those oranges.  Why did I buy that many anyway?  I don't even like oranges that much.  Great, now I'll probably end up leaving them there until they go hard, and then what?  I'll have to throw them all out. Poor oranges.  Such a waste.  Check it out, I think they look a little sad".

And there you have it people.  The entire, astonishingly deep thought process behind orange ice cream.  Enjoy.

Orange Ice Cream:

1 1/2 cups oranges (peeled and cut into segments, remove only the flesh and leave the bitter skin)
2 tbsp lemon juice
3/4 cup white sugar
1 cups 2% milk
1 cups half-and-half cream
1 tsp vanilla

Put the oranges, lemon juice, milk and sugar in the blender and blend until smooth.  Then add the cream and vanilla and mix.  Pour into the ice cream maker, as per the instructions on your ice cream maker.

Comments

[shaz]

hi. i'm glad you're back from your hiatus. you have great prose and photography. i'll be dropping in often. happy blogging!
cheers! shaz

[Liz]

Hi shaz! It's great to hear from you too. Please stop in as much as you'd like. I hope to have something new going on more frequently, call it a belated New Years resolution.

Liz