28 July 2008

the scoop

To say I like ice cream would be a tremendous understatement. And the allotment is a super source of ice cream flavorings. We've already finished off a batch of strawberry and are now working our way through a batch of lovely pale green gooseberry:

I invested in an ice cream maker eight years ago while living in America, so I could make one of my favorite (but hard-to-find) ice cream flavors: green tea. Since then, I've not only tried many different flavors but have upgraded to a proper professional machine. Because you can never have too much ice cream, particularly in the midst of a London heatwave!

The gooseberry recipe is from The Best of Modern British Cookery by Sarah Freeman, which I bought for 10p from the library sale cart a few weeks ago. First dibs on sale books: a definite perk of eating lunch in the library garden!

10 comments:

  1. ooh yummy, I love gooseberries, but no-one else does, so I could eat it all!

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  2. yum yum yum! You make it all look so perfect, too. D x

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  3. I have just read a recipe for rosewater ice-cream but because I haven't got a machine I can't make it. Perhaps you could be my tester!

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  4. Yum! We just finished a batch of gooseberry. I am planning to make plain old vanilla tomorrow! Though Alice's rosewater suggestion does sound good ...

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  5. your foodie pictures are always so yummy!
    love the sale shelf in the library too - i pick up magazines for 10p each for the current month :)
    have a great week
    t x

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  6. I could so eat one of those and it's only 7.10am.

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  8. that looks delicious - I love gooseberries too, but have never had gooseberry flavour ice-cream...

    i could just eat one right now too!

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  9. Golly that looks gorgeous. First visit to your blog and what a temptation! xx

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