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Entries in vanilla (2)

Tuesday
Jul052011

Cherry Pie

I was lucky enough to spend my Forth of July weekend in CT staying at a friends parents' house. It's a gorgeous property overlooking a staggering view of National State Park and owned by the loveliest people you could hope to spend time with. I felt very honored to be invited. A wonderful weekend filled with all the good things you hope Summer weekends should be; friends, love, laughter, food and swimming!!

Since we were there for three days, I made three desserts! A Cherry Pie with homemade vanilla ice cream, a Victoria Sponge in red, white and blue (strawberries, blueberries and cream!) and a Tarte Tartin with homemade bourbon ice cream. All seemed appropriate for our American Holiday, with a little British touch thrown in by the Victoria Sponge, independence from the British is what 4th July is all about after all and a little nod to the French with the Tartin as it was the French who gave the American's the Statue de la Liberté even if it was only to spite the English. Ah, good times :)

Here are the photographs of my Cherry Pie. The recipe came from the July 2011 edition of Martha Stewart Living and although I can't find the exact recipe online, this is close. RECIPE. I hope you all had wonderful July 4th weekends and even if this is not your holiday to celebrate, I believe we should all take a moment to celebrate our independence! Life, love and liberty to all.


Sunday
Mar212010

Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream

Making your own ice cream feels like... being the bride. It's fabulous. Simultaneously you make yourself and everyone around you very happy. Wow, there's an over-the-top comparison. Still, it is pretty fabulous and really, riduculously, laughably easy, with the aid of a KitchenAid ice cream bowl. My obsession with ice cream began in May 2009 after receiving the ice cream attachment for my birthday. What followed was close to obsession. There will be many more posts about ice cream, but this one is just about making the yummy stuff.

This recipe comes from the exquisite book Chez Panisse Desserts by Lindsey Remolif Shere. The book contains no less than 68 ice cream recipes, among other mind blowing desserts. So far I have made humble versions of cinnamon, gingerbread, bourbon and vanilla - the gingerbread actually my own variation made by mixing in small pieces of gingerbread dough with clove ice cream to create a 'gingerbread cookies & cream' for a Thanksgiving dinner. You can be your own Ben AND Jerry with an ice cream maker!

The scoop

Ingredients for making the custard

The Recipe from Chez Panisse Desserts, avec ouef!

 In motion 

Removing the paddle

...tied up with string, these are a few of my favourite things...