Chocolate Ice Cream @ MindSay 
ice cream day
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
100 items that every omnivore should try in his or her life, according to the Very Good Taste blog.
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream Oh yes...lots of times, lots of different brands.
21. Heirloom tomatoes ? I dunno.
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda ?
31. Wasabi peas ?
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (I've done separately, but not together) sounds fun, but no!
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O have to do this.
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42.
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala do they mean marsala??
48.
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips yes, and no I would never eat them again unless I mistook them for chocolate!
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian (Does ice cream w/durian in it count?)
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill - maybe if I freshly killed it and it was deer or something
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict why, bien sur!
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate - I must know more!
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano - hmm probably. I had mole but I don't know what kind.
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99.
100.
I'll have to google some of these and work on it!
Update: I've had pocky and bellinis! I overlooked it. Also I was probably skimming and didn't see roadkill. I added a note. And oh yeah I had goulash (in Hungary no less!!) and also I had flower ice cream, so that counts for flowers, right?
Plus yesterday was all about salivating over Lobster Thermidor. MMmm!! I can't wait to try it.
Here is quite an interesting article from Yahoo foods that is much debated. What do you think?
http://food.yahoo.com/blog/beautyeats/5294/late-night-snacks-to-cure-every-distress/
If we weren't meant to eat late at night, why is there a light inside the refrigerator? Besides, there are times when you just gotta have something. The trick is to be prepared. Because the main problem with nighttime nibbles has less to do with when you're eating than with what you tend to eat after hours. Instead of reaching for a pint of mint chocolate chip or a slice of day-old pizza, stock up on the following -- there's something here for every midnight muncher.
If you're stressed to the max
Rich, sugary comfort foods actually do short-circuit stress, but they also contribute to belly fat. So try to resist the chocolate chip cookies and grab a handful of unsalted almonds instead. The satisfying crunch will help you work off your anxiety, while the B vitamins and magnesium help your brain make relaxing serotonin. And at only 160 calories for about 22 almonds, you won't add weight worries to your woes.
If you're just tossing and turning
Starchy carbs may help you nod off. Why? Foods that quickly raise your blood sugar also raise blood levels of the amino acid tryptophan, which the brain converts to mind-soothing serotonin. So unless you're a diabetic, microwave a potato, warm up some instant rice, pop an English muffin in the toaster, and wait for the Zs to happen.
If you're burning the midnight oil
You could mainline coffee to get your Powerpoint project done overnight, but that'll just leave you with a world-class case of jitters the next morning when it's time to run it by the boss. A better bet, believe it or not: a salad of dark greens and chopped veggies. Not only will the complex carbs in the veggies give you energy, they're full of folic acid, which new research suggests helps your brain work faster.
If you're on a diet or just plain hungry
Give that rumbling tummy a little bit of protein, like a low-fat cheese stick, some lean turkey, or even an egg-white omelet. Eating about a third of your daily calories in lean protein keeps you feeling full, and a there's new evidence that it may also help you burn a few extra calories while you sleep.
If you're pregnant
Forget the pickles, but have the ice cream. Extra calcium is excellent when you're eating for two.
Baby-and-Me Smoothie
½ cup fat-free vanilla ice cream (or 8 oz nonfat vanilla yogurt)
1 banana
1 cup frozen, unsweetened strawberries
1 Tbs. frozen orange juice concentrate.
Puree everything in a blender until creamy. Then put your feet up and enjoy every sip, knowing that you're getting about 340 mg of bone-building calcium -- more than 20% of your recommended daily value -- plus a bunch of vitamins and minerals, so the 373 calories are anything but empty. Even better: The milk protein and banana contain a bit of sleep-inducing tryptophan.
Ice cream cures everything. When I'm a doctor, I'm going to prescribe ice cream for everyone. The dentists can fight me all they want!
-S
Perhaps by now it is common knowledge that, during the summer, I work as a camp counselor. Hence the bookmark on the side. If you want to check it out, of the hundreds of photos on there, I think I'm in two. Usually blinking.
If you're at all familiar with the traditional summer camp, you are likely aware that quite a high standard of craziness is set. If five completely random and unexpected things haven't happened today, that means that the sun's not up yet. But, there are also somewhat wild goings-on that are planned well in advance; we simply fail to mention them to the campers.
Primarily because we enjoy the reactions.
Mount Victory makes an appearance every week, as 'dessert' for the last meal of the week. 'Dessert' may be putting it mildly. This involves a steel mixing bowl in which you could comfortably bathe a cocker spaniel, nine gallons of ice cream, assorted cherries, oreo crumble, chocolate syrup, sprinkles, the works. A small mountain of dairy delight. Usually, a bright red apple is placed at the tip to complete the illusion of one seriously mondo ice cream Sundae.
There are squeals. There are expressions of awe. There is delight, and stunned amazement. Boys do not squeal, they simply utter exuberant cries of, "Whoa!" to express their reverence. And there always seems to be just a little bit of hopeful disbelief, an unspoken universal thought: "We get to eat that?"
Yep. We do.
Surprisingly, a hundred and fifty people, in a blending of staff and campers, have yet to actually polish off all nine gallons. But eight is not enough.
Sitting next to K, he snarfed a bite of my scoop of chocolate before taking off. It's come up frequently this summer that, of the random ways that we're there for each other and look out for each other, one of the more random is that if one of us locates the presence of dessert, they usually find some way to communicate this to the other. I don't know why, I just know that it is. As I stated, there's quite a bit more to the relationship, but really, having something good is not nearly as enjoyable as having something good and sharing it with someone you love.
On that subject, K and I differ on frozen dessert consumption because of meal-philosophies. Mine is that the best part should be last, as that's the note you want to leave with. His is more practical - eat your ice cream first, otherwise it'll melt. J is a fellow counselor, and he's been heard saying - "You never know when the good Lord will return - eat dessert first!"
I realized after he snarfed a bite that I didn't think to ask for one specific section. The speaker this week knows me from church, and, deftly flourishing the scooper, he courteously asked my preference. At the time, I wasn't particularly focused on the mountain (this is the ninth week of camp - I've grown accustomed to its presence), and flippantly responded, "Ice cream would be good." My friend made a face, perceiving this as daughterly sarcasm, and gave me a good scoop of the chocolate section.
Let the weird thoughts commence. As a kid, I never liked chocolate ice cream. I had this obsession with Rocky Road, but remained in denial that it was really chocolate ice cream. Upon reflection, I think I just wanted whatever kind had the most "stuff" in it. Chocolate-covered marshmallows and peanuts were delightful. When on rare occasions I might obtain some variety other than that of the supermarket's distribution, there was a Baskin Robbins in the mall. A dark day it was when Baskin Robbins left the area, but until that day, there was some sort of vivid blue carrying gummi worms. Absolute delight for an eight-year-old.
Strawberry's sweet. Delightful, happy, but no challenge to it. Counting Crows likens it to a sort of infatuation, "the strawberry ice cream never-ever end of all this love." Just plain happy, life is good, you're not so much ignoring the bad stuff as just being in a moment where there isn't any. Strawberry ice cream.
Vanilla's calmer, and being somewhat blander, can be applied to soothe a multitude of wounds. Loneliness, stress, PMS, and that sensation that eludes title of wishing to curl up and be my parents' little girl again. Chocolate chip deserves an honorable mention for this category - if I know that I'm loved by someone, they just can't be here right now, chocolate chip is more appropriate for the symptoms than vanilla.
Also worth noting, as a teenager, I had this thing with mixing red hots in vanilla ice cream. Loved the way it looked, liked the way it tasted. Have a bit of a problem with the red hots freezing, though. The mixed texture is good, but they're just a little too hard. If I ever go into the ice cream business (which, curiously enough, a friend and I have discussed - though our plans involve moving to Europe), I will find a way to keep the red hots from freezing quite so solidly. I think they need to go crunch for this one to be right.
Chocolate requires a certain focus. You can't just eat chocolate blindly. There's so much more to it than that first sweetness that hits your tongue. You can explore it a bit with your taste buds - find that slight tingle across the salt, the richness of some mild bitter, the utter blindness where your sour buds try desperately to be part of the concerto. It's something of a puzzle - more elite than the simple folk who enjoy their strawberry, the chocolate-eaters find a slightly new sensation in every bite. True connoisseurs will disdain the ostentatious Hagen-Dazs and the overdone Ben and Jerry's, in search of something subtler in their pleasure. The purpose to chocolate ice cream is not the chocolate 'fix' we often crave, but a deeper 'experience'.
On the subject of K, this is right about the point where he would declare that I'm a nut. Actually, I think we hit that point right about when I decided to write about ice cream. Fortunately, he does agree with me on the value of ice cream - otherwise, this relationship would probably be having some real problems.
I am in the scheming and evaluating phase. I never thought it would get past the "oh, that sounds like fun" idea. But that French ice cream maker's words haunt me. If it's not that tough and might be enjoyable, should I go for it?
Today I read this article:
http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives/2006/07/meet_your_maker_1.html
That machine looks awesome, but I am going to do a little more research first.
and I'm going to check out this book:
The ultimate ice cream book : over 500 ice creams, sorbets, granitas, drinks, and more by Bruce Weinstein.
There are things to consider like: How much is cream vs. half & half or milk?
Or rather, would making my own ice cream cost more than buying it at the store?
That's all I'll say for now. Reading about it certainly whet my appetite that much more. We'll see where this journey takes us. Or is it just another whim?
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