Ice Cream Adventures & Recipes
by Dr Big D – January 4th, 2011 — sorbet
Thibault and I made this sorbet 2 summers ago at a farm house in the Auvergne. It was a great couple of days relaxing in the countryside with the only memorable stress being and an epic game of petanque. There were a clutch of red currant bushes in the the orchard in front of the house so on the day we left, we gathered a little harvest and headed back to Le Puy to make sorbet.
by Dr Big D – December 27th, 2010 — alcohol, ice cream
I’ve been making this for a number of years now to accompany christmas pudding and as an alternative to hot rum sauce. I like the contrast between hot dark rich pudding and cold refreshing ice cream. It’s become something of a family tradition.
by Dr Big D – May 17th, 2010 — ice cream, recipe, travel
Back in March I took a trip out to South Africa to visit my sister, and whilst there we cooked up this little adventure. Soon after arriving we had some beautifully ripe paw-paw for breakfast and decided to see if they’d make good icecream. To add a bit more interest we decided to try making it in the Cederberg national park – a spectacular semi-desert 300 km north of Cape Town.
by Dr Big D – September 16th, 2009 — ice cream, recipe
With autumn approaching I’ve been kicking back with my feet up on the 1/2 gallon freezer (log fire, pipe, slippers, smoking jacket – you know the scene) and reflecting on a long successful summer of cranking. Looking back it seems that I’ve been so busy that I’ve written up precious few batches into the blog, so here’s an attempt to correct the situation.
by Dr Big D – August 29th, 2009 — event, ice cream, recipe
Blueberries are a regular theme on Triple Motion. This is the story of our latest blueberry experiment.
When Julie’s 30th birthday-party was approaching, we were trying to decide what kind of ice cream to make. We ventured out to the shops.
PETER: These locally-grown blueberries are great. These aren’t the native blaeberries, but they’re still tasty and I have been adding them to my daily-pancakes more days than not in the past month or so.
BIG D: Julie did write a song about picking blueberries while she was in Tennesee.
PETER: Decision made!
We scooped a stack of punnets of fresh Scottish Blueberries.
by Dr Big D – July 30th, 2009 — alcohol, ice cream
I currently have the great pleasure of a houseguest from Hannover. Franzi is an old friend of Shiv (see Saffron icecream in Primrose Hill park) and is staying for a few weeks to enjoy to fabulous weather an sophisticated culture of the north of england (ahemm).
Then when Shiv also came to visit and I found myself with 2 lovely people in my house it was inevitable that the excitement would spill over into making icecream. Continue reading →
by Dr Big D – June 29th, 2009 — ice cream
A complex series of events led Peter’s 1/2 gallon freezer to live in London for several months. This resulted in a reduction in Peter’s icecream making activities, since it takes quite a sizable gathering the polish off a 1 gallon freezer (or a heroic personal effort). So I planned a trip to visit my lovely friends and collect the machine at the same time.
by Dr Big D – April 3rd, 2009 — ice cream, travel
My wonderful, talented, intrepid Antarctic biologist sister was awarded a PhD by Stellenbosch University for being very clever and hard working. Hurray!
My first thought (naturally) was “lets make a batch of icecream to celebrate”. So I threw the ½ gallon freezer in my bag and 12 hours of long haul flight hours later I was in Cape town.
Things didn’t run so smoothly initially when the bag containing my beloved machine disappeared into the black hole of baggage handling. Thankfully it re-appeared 24hrs later with the contents having suffered no ill effects from the journey. However for this brief period the fate of my ice-cream adventure hung in the balance.
by Dr Big D – March 29th, 2009 — ice cream, recipe
The apple & cinnamon ice cream-scone combination: truly a winner.
It was inspired by and amazing icecream experience I had in Italy with chocolate gelato in a brioche bun.
Peter and I first tried it out when we made icecream for the great and good of the the UK documentary film community at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival last year (that’s a long story). It was a huge success, I remember standing around on the pavement on a chilly November morning (no danger of the icecream melting prematurely that day) stuffing myself and passers-by with sconey, creamy goodness. The scones were extra useful that day since we didn’t need to buy tubs and spoons to hand the icecream out and they were far tastier than commercial wafer cones.
by Dr Big D – June 21st, 2008 — alcohol, chocolate, ice cream, recipe, sorbet, travel
We are finally publishing Dr. Big D’s travelogue from our Outer Hebridean Ice Cream Adventure. We are also producing a short film about this trip and will keep you posted about its progress. Enjoy!
Why did we choose an ice cream adventure in the Outer Hebrides? Was it just to make life difficult for ourselves? You could argue that if that was the idea, we should have gone to Iraq, Nepal or China. Scotland on the other hand is the itinerant cranker’s dream. The sparse but widely dispersed communities mean that there’s an abundance of wee shops dotted around. Even if you’re not an ice cream maker, the basic ingredients of ice cream (cream, milk and sugar) are staples so most shops stock them. But what about the ice, you may ask? Well due to the popularity of frozen ready-meals most of these little shops also have freezers and many a modern Scot now quite likes an ice cube in his dram. Hence ice is also relatively easy to come by too. And who could resist holidaying in the stunning scenery of the Scottish islands especially in that perfect time of year when there is still daylight but the midges haven’t got going yet.
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