I like tasty food.
Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 2:25 am
I do. I do.
And so I have to share with you the superlative ice cream. I found Haagen Dazs Five ice creams, they only have 5 ingredients: milk, cream, sugar, flavor, eggs. Nice, eh? The first I tried was the passion fruit flavor. Quite tasty. But then I tried the ginger flavor and great googly-moogly! That is some fine ice cream. The flavor is warm, spicy ginger, with a bit of a kick and it's all creamy and cold and.... just delightful. I usually prefer my ice cream pretty hard, but this I like even when it's mushy. If you let it soften you can eat it using cinnamon graham crackers as the spoon - very good.
Ranked Flavors:
Ginger (My current favorite ice cream ever, well, excepting the snow ice cream my mom made that once when I was a kid but that has nostalgia behind it too.)
Passionfruit (Maybe because of the rarity of passion fruit ice cream.)
Brown Sugar (Pretty good. Not anywhere near the ginger.)
Mint (Good. Usually they add chocolate to any mint, it was nice to get it by itself. Not neon green either.)
Milk Chocolate (Meh. Pretty much your standard chocolate ice cream. I could have just bought Blue Bell.)
Haven't gotten around to trying Vanilla Bean (suspect it will be like the chocolate) and Coffee (trying to avoid caffeine, even that small amount).
And so this won't only be about ice cream, let's talk about cheese some. (Can you tell I am a dairy fan? Sorry vegan readers. )
Recently we had some nice tomatoes from the store, the little cherry ones you buy on the vine. They were getting ripe and needed to be used, so I cut them in half, piled them in a white bowl and grated Romano over them. Actually I put down a layer of tomato, one of cheese, one of tomato, one of cheese. Then I speared them with a fork and guided them to my hungry maw. There they were ruthlessly masticated (mmm sweet tomato acidity and salty cheese), swallowed and digested. Cutting roma tomatoes in half, sprinkling them with grated Parmesan and broiled real quick in the toaster oven is good too.
And Limburger! Oh, I had some recently just with some nice soft bread... So good. Or cutting a bolillo in half, cutting chunks of Brie up and putting that in the toaster? Be careful not to burn yourself.
The fruit has also been good lately. Grapes, apricots, strawberries, mangoes.... The mangoes have been especially good. Both the... uh... yellow and green/red skinned varieties.
Oh, and I made a soup out of sweet potato, granny smith apple, chile arbols, and yogurt. Pretty good.
And so I have to share with you the superlative ice cream. I found Haagen Dazs Five ice creams, they only have 5 ingredients: milk, cream, sugar, flavor, eggs. Nice, eh? The first I tried was the passion fruit flavor. Quite tasty. But then I tried the ginger flavor and great googly-moogly! That is some fine ice cream. The flavor is warm, spicy ginger, with a bit of a kick and it's all creamy and cold and.... just delightful. I usually prefer my ice cream pretty hard, but this I like even when it's mushy. If you let it soften you can eat it using cinnamon graham crackers as the spoon - very good.
Ranked Flavors:
Ginger (My current favorite ice cream ever, well, excepting the snow ice cream my mom made that once when I was a kid but that has nostalgia behind it too.)
Passionfruit (Maybe because of the rarity of passion fruit ice cream.)
Brown Sugar (Pretty good. Not anywhere near the ginger.)
Mint (Good. Usually they add chocolate to any mint, it was nice to get it by itself. Not neon green either.)
Milk Chocolate (Meh. Pretty much your standard chocolate ice cream. I could have just bought Blue Bell.)
Haven't gotten around to trying Vanilla Bean (suspect it will be like the chocolate) and Coffee (trying to avoid caffeine, even that small amount).
And so this won't only be about ice cream, let's talk about cheese some. (Can you tell I am a dairy fan? Sorry vegan readers. )
Recently we had some nice tomatoes from the store, the little cherry ones you buy on the vine. They were getting ripe and needed to be used, so I cut them in half, piled them in a white bowl and grated Romano over them. Actually I put down a layer of tomato, one of cheese, one of tomato, one of cheese. Then I speared them with a fork and guided them to my hungry maw. There they were ruthlessly masticated (mmm sweet tomato acidity and salty cheese), swallowed and digested. Cutting roma tomatoes in half, sprinkling them with grated Parmesan and broiled real quick in the toaster oven is good too.
And Limburger! Oh, I had some recently just with some nice soft bread... So good. Or cutting a bolillo in half, cutting chunks of Brie up and putting that in the toaster? Be careful not to burn yourself.
The fruit has also been good lately. Grapes, apricots, strawberries, mangoes.... The mangoes have been especially good. Both the... uh... yellow and green/red skinned varieties.
Oh, and I made a soup out of sweet potato, granny smith apple, chile arbols, and yogurt. Pretty good.