Archive for the 'ice cream' Category
Panna Cotta Ice Cream
September 13th, 2011by Lisa Most summers we go a little nuts for ice cream. I have two ice creams makers (traditional and soft serve) and it’s not been unheard of for me to whip up a batch of ice cream at least once a week. Caroline makes more than her share of ice cream in the summer, [...]
Saying Yes
June 26th, 2011by Caroline This past year, my 6 year-old got out of school an hour earlier than my 9 year-old, and we spent that hour in the school library or, on sunny days, in the park across the street. Once spring came, an ice cream truck parked at the entrance and as we crossed the street [...]
Honey Ice Cream
June 16th, 2011by Caroline I am learning — slowly — that while San Francisco doesn’t offer the summer weather I grew up with (and long for) when school lets out each year, there are ways to compensate for that. Here at home it may be 60 degrees, with fog swirling in the street and a wind so [...]
Korean-style Tuna
February 8th, 2011by Lisa This should really go under the heading of really fast and easy, or things you can make with vertigo–which hit me yesterday for the 2nd time, and which I’m pretty sure is migraine-related. But this dish is so fast and easy, that you can make it if you can stand up for 15 [...]
Root Beer Float x 2
September 7th, 2010by Lisa We have a great debate going in our house: which goes in a root beer float first, the ice cream or the soda? This has been an ongoing experiment all summer long, since we discovered Trader Joe’s has a good bottled root beer (& a caffeine free cola that’s pretty terrific, too.) We [...]
Coconut Ice Cream
August 11th, 2010by Caroline Even though it has been cold enough all summer in San Francisco to turn on the heat, one recent day we also turned on the ice cream machine. This recipe comes from The Ultimate Ice Cream Book, by Bruce Weinstein, and it is absolutely fabulous. 1/2 cup shredded sweetened coconut 1 c sugar [...]
Strawbery Balsamic Cookie Crunch Ice Cream
August 5th, 2010by Caroline I usually don’t have much trouble getting my kids into the kitchen; we make sushi together, we make muffins, we make cakes and pancakes — mostly I bake with the kids, because mostly I bake, period. But anything I’m making, they’re welcome to participate, and they’re typically eager to help. Still, when a [...]
One more post about ice cream
August 26th, 2009by Caroline It was a hot day. We’d been exploring the Storm King Art Center by foot and by tram; we had picnicked and sculpted and now it was time to refill our water bottles and drive home. We could see, near the water dispenser, a vending machine with ice creams. OK, we told the [...]
Summer Traditions: The Red Rooster
August 23rd, 2009by Caroline Thirty-seven years ago my family moved back from Japan to the States, to a town eighty miles away from my maternal grandparents, and a tradition was born. Because halfway between my grandparents’ house and the one in which I grew up, in Brewster, New York, stands The Red Rooster, a hamburger and ice [...]
Boardwalk Ice Creams
August 6th, 2009by Caroline What’s a summer without ice cream? No kind of summer at all. Last week we made our own It’s-Its, this week, we stopped in at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (where everybody has a good ti-ime) and tried out the ice cream treats on offer there. Ben, no doubt still dreaming of It’s-Its [...]