Tag: ice cream

I’m still on my experimental ice cream kick and was in the mood to try something new this weekend. Rummaging through the fridge, I found a ripe mango that I put inside a couple days ago, and mango ice cream seemed like a good idea. I was also weeding my garden earlier in the morning and found another shoot of mint growing in between the beets (seems like you can never really get rid of mint!). ChatGPT affirmed my hunch that the pairing would work, so I adapted my previous Strawberry Ice Cream recipe to swap out the mango for the strawberries.

I have a Cuisinart ice cream maker that was given to me and which has spent the last few years sitting on a storage shelf in my garage, completely forgotten about. Which is a shame, I’ve now come to realize! That’s because this past weekend my mom dropped off a giant pail of ripe, fresh picked strawberries that I couldn’t possibly have eaten all of before they went bad (well, maybe I could have) and I had one of those ah-ha! moments of divine providence when the Cuisinart caught the corner of my eye and some synapse made an unconscious connection. Hmm, strawberry ice cream… Why have I not been doing this all the time?