Halva ice cream
Ever heard about Halva? Or Halvah, helva, alva, or any of the other half-dozen or so labels under which this particular dessert is known and loved? Yours truly recently went to the Middle East,...
Tagged: custard ice cream
Blackcurrant ice cream (no ice cream machine required)
Every summer, I ponder how to best make good ice cream without an ice cream machine. While idly flipping through the pages of one of my mother’s Swedish foodie magazines, I recently came upon...
Banana ice cream à la Monet
An ice cream recipe by a world famous French painter? Yes, actually! Let’s take a closer look at impressionist giant Claude Monet’s very own banana ice cream! Impressionism in painting is characterised by an emphasis on … well, the...
Vanilla ice cream (again)
Ah – vanilla! When prepared in an authentic way (with no cheap substitutes), vanilla ice cream can be absolutely delicious already on its own. But vanilla also tend to go well with a myriade of other desserts, and just about everything...
Chestnut ice cream Monte Blanc
While skiing in Chamonix, France, I found a quite peculiar ice cream flavour in a local ice cream parlour – Mont Blanc. As luck would have it, this eventually lead me to one of...
Loving Liquorice ice cream
Some people just love liquorice. Me? No, not really. But since I love someone who does love it, finding a superior recipe for liquorice ice cream quickly turned into quite a personal quest. It seems that liquorice as...
Saffron Orange ice cream
Saffron – the world’s most expensive spice – teams up with orange in this delicate ice cream, which exceeds the sum of its parts! Some would say that this mix of flavours goes back to the Middle...
Pistachio almond gelato
Pistachio is supposed to have been one of the nice, edible things growing in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. These Gardens were one of the ancient “Wonders of the World”, so perhaps there is no wonder...
