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pjl
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Has to be a don pedro or two with whiskey and amarula cream. Been wasted many a time on a few.
Saw a herd of elephants once very tipsy on the amarula fruits alone.
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Pomona
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Pjl, I really want to try Amarula! I've discovered my love of Advocaat (naughty custard!) so Amarula is surely next on the list.
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Penny S
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An addendum to the post about Christmas pudding icecream.
It is possible to make it badly. I got some out of the freezing compartment in my fridge. It had, curiously, softened for some reason. The proportion of pudding to icecream seems critical. The one I made at Christmas was fine, but this one had too much pudding to icecream, and was not as nice as it should be. Good was a whole tub of Waitrose Clotted Cream to a standard sized Aldi pudding.
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jedijudy
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Miss Amanda reminded me of another favorite: Bluebell Homemade Vanilla ice cream. It has none of the virtues of the frozen yogurt I love, but, my oh my! That is some tasty full-fat cream and sugar!
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Mechtilde
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Two favorite approaches:
1. Non-Italian: Must have chunky stuff blended in. Grew up on Baskin Robins German chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream with chocolate bits, coconut & who knows what else. Enjoying this in my youth set me up to be a slave to Ben & Jerry's as an adult.
2. Italian: Chocolate as background, then another flavor for contrast. Pistacchio is a favorite, but there's a place in Rome (happy to supply the location, if desired) that makes rose. Chocolate + rose = heaven.
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Ariston
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The place that came to mind first would be Taos Cow in Arroyo Secco, NM—piñon caramel and lavender ice creams worth biking twelve miles, all uphill, in much thinner air than you're used to. Sure there's a coffee shop in town that sells Cow, but they were for sale last time I was in Taos . . . okay, and the five times before that, but that's not the point!
Runners up, though, would be anything with chocolate or booze from the Maryland Dairy on the University of Maryland's campus (all milk comes from Maryland cows, and some from the herd on campus—yes, a research university in the near suburbs of the nation's capitol has a herd of cows, as well as sheep, pigs, and horses); Cafe Coronas in Florence, just around the corner from the cathedral, and the Old Bridge Gelateria (no, not "Il Ponte Vecchio," "Old Bridge") across the street from the unending Vatican Museum line, for pineapple and whatever other fruit flavor looks good (con panna if you're in Lazio; nobody else seems to do the cream on top, but the overkill's nice); Piatango Gelato in DC and Baltimore for the ever-availible quince and cardamom, or a hazelnut gelato drowned in a shot of their hot chocolate; and the occasional Jamaican ice cream store for grape nut (yes, those Grape Nuts) or soursop ice creams.
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Mechtilde
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Speaking of cardamom: Cardamom ice cream is an excellent accompaniment to any intensely chocolate dessert. You can cheat by buying a good quality vanilla, let it soften up a bit, then stir in cardamom to taste. A flavor that, IME, surprises and pleases the unsuspecting.
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Gill H
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My mum is on a very low fat diet and can't have ice cream, but we have discovered Waitrose does some wonderful Seriously Fruity Sorbets. The mango one is gorgeous.
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Pomona
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Gill - try this . Really delicious. If your mum is concerned more with fat content than sugar content, sub the sweetener for half as much fruit sugar (which is sweeter than regular sugar so less is needed). You can find fruit sugar with sweeteners and pectin in the sugar aisle.
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Gill H
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Looks lovely - I might try that myself!
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fletcher christian
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Best I ever had was Ben and Jerry's mint ice cream - sadly now no longer produced. I think it was called Minter Wonderland or something like that. They stopped making it because it wasn't popular! Hagen Das though have started to make mint leaves and dark chocolate ice cream, and it's pretty good.
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Pomona
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Originally posted by fletcher christian:
Best I ever had was Ben and Jerry's mint ice cream - sadly now no longer produced. I think it was called Minter Wonderland or something like that. They stopped making it because it wasn't popular! Hagen Das though have started to make mint leaves and dark chocolate ice cream, and it's pretty good.
I'm guessing you're in the UK, because B&J do mint choc in the US! We have a far smaller range here in the UK, both for B&J and Haagen Dazs.
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Penny S
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I've gone off fruit sugar which is attracting some negative reports. Not only obesity, but insulin resistance. There are serious reports out there, not just from cranky sites.
I used to like to use it because of using less than sucrose.
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Barnabas Aus
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Someone upthread mentioned purple ice cream. In tropical North Queensland you can get dragonfruit flavour, which is a rich magenta-purple in colour and has a most intriguing flavour.
At Tropical Fruit World in Northern NSW, you can have your own icecream made by blending seasonal tropical fruits with icecream in a special contraption which makes it into a soft-serve cone. The black sapote ice cream has the richest chocolatey taste to it.
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Piglet
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Someone mentioned supermarkets' own-brand ice-cream on the previous page; we like to keep a tub of vanilla ice-cream in the freezer and after some research we've decided that a bargain-brand called Signal is much nicer than the more up-market brands (which often have too much vanilla flavour).
And it comes in great big tubs ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Winnow
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I don't eat dairy, so I buy almond or coconut "ice cream", which I enjoy very much. Not quite the same as the real stuff, but very very good.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by piglet:
Someone mentioned supermarkets' own-brand ice-cream on the previous page;
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And it comes in great big tubs ...
Morrison's used to make lovely advocaat and walnut ice cream (by the litre, rather than ½), and their strawberry and vanilla was above average, and then they ... rebranded. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif) Nooooooo. The only flavour they have now is cardboard.
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