15 December 2009

spice and ice

While visiting my mum, I discovered a fabulous new gelato shop, Pitango Gelato:

The Fior di Latte, made from locally sourced, organic milk and cream, was pure, creamy gelato heaven. I also tried the Cinnamon, which was wonderfully spicy--perfect for the festive season.

Now back in Teddington, and longing for a scoop of Cinnamon, I whipped up a batch of David Lebovitz' Cinnamon Ice Cream:

Made using Waitrose Cooks' Ingredients cinnamon--ginormous cinnamon sticks from the Seychelles--it boasts a very deep, very spicy, very adult cinnamon flavor. If an ice cream could be described as warm, this would be it...just the thing for frosty afternoons!

13 comments:

  1. Haha, you're nuts. It is freezing here! It is currently SNOWING in London!

    Looks delicious, though :)

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  2. That appeals to me much more than candy cane ice cream for Christmas. Wish we had some here! D x

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  3. In my defense, I did write this entry yesterday, before it started snowing! K

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  4. it's a myth that icecream shouldn't be eaten in winter! In Itay we do it all the time...


    you go girl!

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  5. Even though its freezing cold in my house, I am so wanting some of that gelato!

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  6. It sounds divine but I just can't do ice cream in winter!

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  7. Ahh that sounds wonderful! But too cold for me at the mo...

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  8. Please send some right over. Surely in this day and age they have the technology to keep ice cream frozen from there to here?

    (Word verif is "brievo," which sounds Italian and must mean that I am destinated to eat gelato right away.)

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  9. Did I really just type "destinated?" HA!

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  10. ooooh, yum!! I love gelato and that looks delicious!! Never mind the snow - I'd enjoy a scoop any day.

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  11. Yes, gorgeous-looking ice cream, as always from you. I linked to your blog from mine on Sunday in relation to an almost-disaster of an ice cream I tried to make up as I went along.... you can make ice cream look appetising even on the coldest days!

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  12. Yum. Ice cream followed by hot chocolate please!

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