Ice Cream Adventures & Recipes
by Peter Gerard – August 20th, 2008 — chocolate, ice cream, recipe
Back for another helping of ice cream and comedy at the Lemoncustard Comedy Club, we followed on the previous week’s successful chocolate chip cookie dough. I don’t often do chunky style ice creams, but am becoming a big fan.
My friend John was shopping at some obscure Scandinavian furniture shop and had the epiphanic idea to chop up some Daim bars and stir them into a batch of vanilla ice cream. So that’s just what we did…
by Peter Gerard – August 18th, 2008 — chocolate, ice cream, recipe
Back at the Fringe last week we decided to spice things up a bit for the Lemon Custard Comedy Club.
A few days before, Leo met Steph, a nice Canadian selling cookies, and invited her to combine powers with the White Mountain. I couldn’t help thinking about Ernie and the Cookie Monster sharing milk and cookies back in the day.
by Peter Gerard – August 11th, 2008 — ice cream, recipe, savoury
For some considerable time we have been discussing the possibilities of savoury ice creams. While I know this concept may strike fear into the hearts of many, especially those long devoted to the Russell Recipe, the White Mountain’s reign of glory must eventually encompass all courses of a meal.
So finally we have turned our debates about freezing points, sugars, salts, and alcohols into action. Big D came up to Edinburgh for the weekend insisting we finally try the Frozen Stilton Cheese Cream recipe from the Ices book. This is the weekend of savoury ice cream.
by Thibault – August 6th, 2008 — recipe, sorbet
I know I’m going to be called a dairy fat heretic, but I’ve decided to carry on the sorbet trail. Moreover, it seems to me that summer rhymes with sorbet… and that red fruits also rhyme with sorbet (which does not necessarily mean that summer rhymes with red fruits). It happened that my grandfather told me his garden was loaded with redcurrants… the association of ideas did not need much concentration, the way was paved for another deliciously acidic frozen dessert!
by Peter Gerard – July 27th, 2008 — ice cream, recipe
This is a classic and an old favourite for sure. Despite having made it countless times, and being delighted by the flavour over and over, we are always trying to perfect it.
A few weeks ago Thomas and Becky were about to move to Berlin and for some reason they still had never tasted my ice cream. I promised to crank up a batch in honour of their departure. The party was to take place at Star Bar and good fortune would have it that the management didn’t mind us cranking ice cream outside.
by Peter Gerard – July 25th, 2008 — ice cream, recipe
Leo has been pressuring me into making mango ice cream for a long time. Strange that I should resist such a delicious potential, but the truth is that ripe and tasty mangoes are incredibly difficult to find, especially way up here in Scotland. We have made mango ice cream a few times, even combining it with ginger (and recently strawberries), but like the mango’s own elusive flavour, the perfect batch is always slipping away from our reach.
by Peter Gerard – July 25th, 2008 — ice cream, recipe
The amazing and delightful french rapper OneSP recently took off for a long trip to South America. Before leaving, we got together for a farewell ice cream party.
I brought strawberries and 1SP had a couple very ripe Pakistani mangoes. When our powers combine we make some crazy things, and this ice cream party is no exception.
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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by Ben – June 19th, 2008 — breakfast, ice cream, recipe
As i had to leave last saturday morning at 10.30 to finish recording some video at a project in Grenoble, and the Parisienne girls were leaving that day, we all (Maële, Heejeon, Lisadie, Stephan, Florienne and myself) got up at 8 the morning to crank out a batch and ate it as the on the terrace as the sun broke through the trees… oh the idyllic life of La Boisserette!
by Peter Gerard – June 19th, 2008 — ice cream, recipe
This is one of my favourite recipes and I only make it during the strawberry season, which has recently begun in Scotland. Scottish strawberries are some of the best in the world and when they’re at their best they deserve to be turned into this delectable dessert.
