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by Peter Gerard – November 18th, 2009 — event, gelato, ice cream, recipe
I love green tea ice cream. I think the first time I tasted it was with my brother at a Japanese restaurant in New York more than a decade ago. I still think that some of the best green tea ice cream I’ve had is in New York, at the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory, a must-stop on any New York visit, even in the ice-cold winter.
A number of years ago we tried making green tea ice cream in the way that seemed logical – brewing gunpowder green tea and adding it to the family recipe. We struggled to get a satisfactory result until one trip to Venice about five years ago. I found a fantastic little gelateria with a Jamaican-themed decor and a very friendly gelato-maker who invited me behind the counter to help him shell pistachios for his delicious nut ice creams. He let me taste a range of unique flavours and then brought out his special green tea batch made for a fancy Japanese restaurant elsewhere in Venice. I was duly impressed and insisted he share the secret.
Needless to say, it’s actually quite simple, but the required green tea can sometimes be hard to track down. You need to use Matcha to make green tea ice cream. Matcha is a finely powdered green tea with a very strong unique flavour. It lasts a long time so it’s worth always having a supply in the fridge. The only place in Edinburgh where I could find it was a specialist chocolatier who agreed to sell me a small bag from their kitchen supply. I’m sure you can get it online easily enough.
It had been a while since I made green tea ice cream so when Ben asked me to make it before he left for the Antarctic (he has moved there for the next 18 months!) I was delighted to get out my Matcha.
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by Peter Gerard – September 25th, 2009 — event, ice cream, recipe
This year for my birthday I received a wonderfully big surprise in a very small package. Turns out that Big D, my dad, and Thibault conspired to find the world’s smallest White Mountain Freezer and sent it for my birthday. After the usual debacle with Parcel Farce, I received the newest edition to our White Mountain arsenal the day after my birthday. The picture below should give it some scale. This is the White Mountain Junior inside a six-quart freezer.
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by Peter Gerard – August 30th, 2009 — chocolate, event, recipe, sorbet
We are big fans of Chocolate & Chile here and saw the opportunity to take our recipes to a new level for our annual Mexican party at John’s house. Lately I have been championing Chocolate Sorbet as the new pinnacle of chocolatey frozenness. It is the dark chocolate of the ice cream world, with an intensely dark flavour and smooth, creamy texture. On tasting, people are often surprised to learn it’s actually a sorbet.
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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.
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by Peter Gerard – August 11th, 2009 — event, ice cream
Following on last year’s über-successful collaboration between Triple Motion and Lemon Custard Comedy Club, we are back at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to serve up delicious handmade ice cream during Dee’s comedy show.
Please come along to the White Horse on the Royal Mile this Friday 14 August. The show hosted by Dee Custance starts at 5:15pm. Guaranteed laughs and frozen creamy goodness for all.
Here are some samples from last year’s fun:
