Our dear friend Foad is moving from London to L.A. and decided to throw a party for all his favourite people. We where honoured to be invited to make ice cream for the event. The theme for the party was “Goodbye London, hello L.A.” so we thought we would try and make 2 batches, symbolising the 2 cities respectively.
Apple Crumble Ice Cream and Peanut Butter and Jelly Ice Cream
by Dr Big D – December 9th, 2012 — event, ice cream, recipe, travel
Lime Sorbet
by Dr Big D – November 12th, 2012 — sorbet
The folks on my street are very sociable and as part of the annual round there’s a Halloween party. This year it was actually a Mexican day of the dead party and I decided to make a lime sorbet.
Mandarin and lemon ice cream at mid-winter
by Jen Lee – July 14th, 2012 — ice cream
It came as a bit of a shock looking back to see than my last posting was ‘S’long to South Africa’. Life has changed quite a bit since then as I have taken a job as Environment Officer for the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It is a great job for many reasons but mainly because I get to go to South Georgia and as any one who reads the blog regularly knows I am an Antarctic junkie. My first trip down to the island was to go and monitor the success of phase 1 of a rat eradication project before phase 2 kicks off this summer and to make some plans to eradicate the very cute, but very invasive reindeer that also inhabit parts of the island.
Coconut ice cream
by Thibault – May 1st, 2012 — event, ice cream, recipe, travel
Hi folks,
We took a few days off for Easter and went to visit David and Peter in their respective cities. This led to two ice cream experiments, one of them being related here.
At the end of 3 amazing days in Newcastle, after a day of bike-pushing in the rain, an intense Shakespeare play and a direct-live heart attack (not from us, fortunately), Julie expressed the wish to crank some ice cream, to put an nice end to this gustatorily intense stay.
We came up with the idea of coconut, which had been tried, for my part, with chocolate, but never on its own.
S’long to South Africa with lime and blueberry ice-cream
by Jen Lee – December 10th, 2011 — ice cream, recipe
I have been in South Africa for six years now. I came here to do my PhD and liked it so much I stayed on to do a post-doc. It really is an amazing country with diverse landscapes and diverse cultures. I could write a ten page testimonial about why it is great here but those of you that have been to SA will already know what I mean and those of you that haven’t should really get on a plane and experience it for yourselves rather than listen to me wax lyrical about how awesome it is. Sadly, next week I will be leaving South Africa and so to make the departure a little bit less sad, I thought I would make some ice-cream (that always cheers me up!).
Pistachio and Chocolate duet
by Thibault – November 21st, 2011 — chocolate, gelato, ice cream, recipe
Howdy folks!
This weekend, we realized that we had never seen Celine and Pierre’s ice cream machine, which was sent a few months ago by Walt. We therefore decided to unite what are probably the only two existing machines in Clermont Ferrand, and to prepare a nice double dessert.
Pierre, driven by enthusiasm and ambition, had chosen nothing less than pistachio, which is considered by some of us as the Holy Grail of ice-cream… I decided to let him undergo this ordeal by himself, and to prepare something that would go well with his attempt. Chocolate seemed the best option…
Blackcurrant ice-cream and petanque
by Thibault – September 27th, 2011 — ice cream
Every year, in August, Celine’s friends meet in a small campsite in Ardeche, a warm, hilly and dry region in the center of France, to celebrate the end of the holidays. It’s the occasion for everybody to enjoy the last summer days, to take a dip in the nearby cristal-clear river or in the pool, to play petanque or to drink the traditional aperitif while talking about everything that’s wrong in France.
Celine and I were invited, and we offered to bring some ice-cream. The two requests we had were chocolate and blackcurrant. Our adventurous spirit drove us to choose the never-tried-before one, of course.
It was a little late in the year to pick the fruit ourselves, and anyway the only blackcurrant bushes I know are in La Sagne (see Redcurrant Post), which was 150kms away. We had to find another solution.
I remember using, with Peter, a sort of blueberry cordial for a previous ice-cream, which turned out to be a little disappointing, so I was not expecting much from bottled berries, but when I found a refrigerated bottle of pure fresh blackcurrant juice in an organic shop, I thought I could give it a try.
Watermelon and mint sorbet
by Thibault – August 31st, 2011 — recipe, sorbet
Gosh, it’s been so long I haven’t posted anything! This is not due to a decrease in the ice-cream making activity, but rather to a lack of pictures, making posts less interesting. Fortunately, I now have a phone with a camera, and will try to post more often.
Anyway, August has been very hot in France, with temperatures exceeding 30°C at night (which, I’ve learnt, is the condition to call the phenomenon a heat wave). I was at my parent’s house these last few days, and one afternoon we were desperately trying to find a way to cool down. My mother had just bought a whole watermelon, and didn’t know what to do with (supermarkets…). Celine suggested a solution to the two problems…
From green bean to ice-cream: coffee ice-cream from scratch
by Jen Lee – August 19th, 2011 — ice cream
I have been fairly quiet on the Triple Motion blog for a while now. I feel slightly embarrassed that I let life get in the way of a good cranking session and so as part of my mid-year resolution I am determined to make a mends. I was not really sure what flavour to go for to break the ice-cream famine so I went for something which is very close to my heart…coffee.
As a researcher who works in a university environment, coffee is an integral part of my day. In fact, I often muse that no science would ever get done if coffee was taken away from academics as it seems that the best ideas come up over a ‘cup o’joe’. Anyways, I am fairly particular about my coffee and try and maintain a certain standard. I have never drunk instant coffee and since at Christmas Dr Big D bought me a kick ass Kitchen Aid coffee grinder, there has been no stopping me. I usually buy my beans from a local coffee retailer who roasts on site daily and sells around 20 single origin varieties. I have been very impressed with their offerings but when the opportunity came along to take my coffee obsession to the next level, and roast my own beans, I jumped at the chance. I decided that this would be a perfect opportunity to get back into ice-cream making too…from green bean to ice-cream…let the adventure commence!
Frozen Bellinis – Peach Sorbet in Sparkling Rosé at Festival de Cannes
by Peter Gerard – May 25th, 2011 — alcohol, event, sorbet, travel
As you might have guessed by the relative quiet on Triple Motion over the last few months, we’re not always just making ice cream and sorbet. Among our other activities is my new business: Distrify – the revolution in online film distribution. Naturally, film and ice cream go together. So when we’re at film festivals talking about our cool digital film technologies, we can’t help but bring along a White Mountain Freezer.
Last week we were in Cannes for the rather glamourous Festival de Cannes and we teamed up with rose-wine.com to sponsor the Scottish party. Andy came up with the idea of the “Frozen Bellini” – a highly suitable cocktail to enjoy under the hot Mediterranean sun. I know a lot of folk make champagne sorbet, but despite our experiments to try and get bubbles into sorbet, I just couldn’t see the point of freezing champagne and losing its sparkle. So I concocted a simple recipe as follows:
