Strawberries are made-up of mostly water, so when you simply mix them into an ice cream base, you end up with frozen strawberry chunks in the middle of vanilla ice cream. Some strawberry ice cream recipes simply add fresh sliced strawberries to vanilla ice cream. This is why I spent hours coming up with the perfect strawberry ice cream recipe with fresh strawberry flavor! It’s always ranked in the top 10 most popular ice cream flavors in the US and it’s one of my personal favorites. Strawberry ice cream is considered one of the three classic ice cream flavors, right up there with chocolate and vanilla. And I can guarantee you that there’s no better way to enjoy a warm summer day than with a bowl of this refreshing strawberry ice cream!
It only takes 20 minutes of hands-on time to create this incredibly creamy ice cream recipe. And I love this granita even more because it is pink.It’s easy to make THE BEST Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream without an ice cream maker! In this recipe, I combined my Mom’s famous strawberry pie filling, with my basic no churn ice cream recipe, combining heavy cream and sweetened condensed milk.
I really like the silkiness that a touch of cream brings to a recipe, as it does here. Schlow’s cheese preparations.Īnd I didn’t forget that I promised you guys a recipe! Although this isn’t really a recipe but more like a guide, because I’ve played around with the proportions and the granita always comes out so good. I remember my favorite dish at Tico was the fried manchego cheese… I guess I am now a fan of Mr. Happy’s is owned by Michael Schlow, who also owns Tico and a few other restaurants in Boston. It was really tasty and I’ve been re-creating it at home. My friends and I checked out Happy’s Bar and Kitchen a few weeks after it opened and we shared this appetizer of homemade ricotta with olive oil and sage, served with crostini. I usually just eat lobster in the form of lobster rolls or dipped in butter, and this tasting plate was a great way to try different lobster preparations.
It had a 1 1/2 lb Maine lobster – beer battered claws, grilled tail and knuckle meat scampi, plus mushrooms and a leek and potato cake. My mom and I shared this lobster tasting plate at North 26. (And also, I have a tendency to regress into a child when my parents come to visit me, depending on them for all sorts of things like dinner.) I know I can cook it myself, but the versions cooked by parents just taste so much better. My mom is here in Boston with me and I’ve been asking her to make this for dinner once a week. It’s a stir fry of mung bean sprouts (called togue in the Philippines), cabbage, mushrooms, garlic, onions, ground beef, and tofu. This is a dish that my dad came up with many years ago, and that my mom makes as well. This one had vanilla almond milk, blueberries, and chopped chocolate roasted almonds from Q’s Nuts. You guys know how much I love oatmeal (check out my Oatmeal 7 Ways post) but I’ve been switching it up with quinoa for the texture – and also because I always end up with leftover quinoa. I’ve been eating quinoa for breakfast, subbing cooked quinoa for oatmeal and adding different toppings. I used Jessica’s recipe from How Sweet It Is and she says it’s based on a restaurant item and a dip sold at Whole Foods called Crazy Feta.
I made this creamy feta dip with jalapenos and roasted garlic for a picnic and everyone went crazy for it. You can find the recipe on Dan’s blog: The Food in My Beard. Read that sentence again and try not to drool. Both work equally well, and I bet you can substitute other frozen berries as well.Īt the beginning of summer, my friend Dan made this Indian Smokehouse Burger – juicy burger on a buttered homemade naan with crunchy pakora (deep fried veggie fritters) and Indian-spiced barbecue sauce. So I made this Strawberries and Cream Granita several times over the summer, using fresh and frozen strawberries. I’m all about ice cream and gelato, but sometimes I want a cool treat that’s lighter. This installment includes some quintessentially summery foods: burger, lobster, picnic-friendly dips, and an icy treat.
This is the third of my Good Eats Series where I share some some of the great foods I’ve enjoyed but were previously undocumented. I have yet to put away my white jeans and dig up my fall boots, but I before I start whipping up all things pumpkin, I wanted to share an easy recipe that will let you re-create summer all year round, as well as some other good eats I had over the past few months. Unofficially, at least, summer has ended with Labor Day this past weekend.