Food

Heston does a brown bread ice cream at Dinner. It is very good.

*Awaits the inevitable passive agressive posting of this comment in the fucking golf thread

you pitch 'em, we'll hit em out the park.

We are starting with basic vanilla as that is all we have ingredients for in the house.

Tomorrow I hit Sainsbury's and get extra cream and ingredients.

Flavours on the list are: chocolate chip; popcorn; thyme and ricotta; fig leaf and honey; strawberry ripple.

And now, brown bread.

thyme and ricotta

Oooo

Yeah. It was on that MasterChef.

What device did you get? We have one but it is quite small and I have to remember to cut most recipe volumes by 1/2 or 2/3 to avoid making too much custard base.

Making Nigella's chocolate guiness cake this avo for mrs cyoa's birthday tomorrow.

Have everything except cocoa so was going to pop out and get some but inexplicably downed 5 cans of Guinness today and now I'm thinking it will be fine without cocoa.

It needs the cocoa

YOU need cocoa

5 cans of Guinness

Blimey! It's not even 3pm there, is it?

Not judging, just saying...

I'm also jealous, obvs...

You probably need some more guinness too. Two birds, one stone...

too much custard base

I think you'll find that you're wrong there.

I generally find that the simpler recipes with just milk and cream are more enjoyable than the fiddly custard based ones. I guess it's an effort/result balance that will be different for individuals though.

I just find the custard based ice creams too rich.

I just find the custard based ice creams too rich.

Do not compute

My mum had an ice cream machine. The best ice cream I have had was a vanilla cream custard with strawberries from my parents garden. The fruit were the ones that were too ripe when picked and were overblown with sugar.

I only make ice cream 3-4 times a year so I don't mind the effort of to be honest. The rest of the time we tend to make sorbets instead.

Vonshef one. I think the volume is 1.2l.

It is a freezing unit, not one you need to freeze in the freezer.

Worst sentence evah.

I have also bought the book "The Perfect Scoop" on the advice of my ice-cream-making-mad friends, Lucy and Gen. @hoefla can attest to their skills.

The vanilla (no egg recipe that came with the machine - baseline) is delicious by the way.

With sprinkles for the kids, whereas I shall be having an affogato after dinner.

From experience those freeze the pot ones are great for a bit but the better ones are the ones with the freezer unit built in. But the makers do need to be used as not using them does the same thing as car air con and many can't be rebuild once the refrigerant has leaked out.

Yeah. We have a similar one. They are awesome.

Revelation moment for me was that they only need to run for an hour or so and can be stored away when not in use.

Counter top space is highly valued in my kitchen. More expensive per square foot than Singapore.

Although Imogen is talking up the need for a new and separate ice cream freezer in which to store out creations.

Is there such a thing as a single height unit which is half an ice cream freezer and half a wine fridge?

#dontgolfclub@me

Yeah. Ours is stored up high. Always a potential for disaster/injury when getting it out and putting it away. Good for the fight/flight response.

Here's some real shit:

Walked a mile or two to get some groceries including, crucially, cocoa for the aforementioned chocolate Guinness cake.

Walked along a main road for part of it - 2 lanes of traffic at a standstill. All the way to the trading estate with a B&Q and an M&S Foodhall where I'd heard there was some of the last cocoa in town.

At first I thought it was a big accident but no sirens. Then I assumed B&Q had fucked up their click and collect dates and everyone had turned up at once.
I stood in the queue outside M&S where someone told me they'd been queuing for over an hour for about 2 miles.

"To come to M&S?"
"No." He pointed through some trees. A KFC drive through had opened up today - queues for miles and hours.

The more I looked, the more fucked it became. People honking / shouting at each other / drinking cans of rattler on car roofs. One particularly fucked looking dude who was wearing some brown stained kecks and nothing else screaming David Grey's Babylon at the top of his lungs while he swung a traffic sign he had pulled out of the ground.

Legit end times moment.