recipe: lemon curd ice cream

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Lemon Curd Ice Cream

Start by making fresh lemon curd. Try to refrain from eating it all. :-}

If you make the rest of the mix while the lemon curd is still hot, the next steps will be easier.

1 3/4 cups whipping cream
1 1/4 cups whole milk
1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise

Heat cream and milk in saucepan. Split vanilla bean in half, scrape seeds into dairy mixture, add vanilla pods. When mixture is simmering, turn off heat and remove pods. Gradually whisk hot dairy mixture into lemon curd until smooth. (If you had refrigerated the curd prior to this part, you'll want to add very small amounts of the hot milk and cream at a time, essentially re-tempering the curd, or else it'll get all lumpy).

Once the custard has been mixed thoroughly, refrigerate for a few hours before freezing in ice cream machine.

For lime curd, replace fresh lemon juice and zest with lime juice and zest. For key lime pie ice cream, add crushed graham cracker swirl.

bites that just won't quit

[danaeris.livejournal.com]

Does anyone else have mysterious bug bites received at Baitcon that still haven't gone away?

I haven't been scratching them, and most of them have gone away but a few are still around, and one in particular took a turn for the worse today.

I *was* using hydrocortisone or lanacaine or after bite on it (depending on what was handy) and taking benadryl at night, but last night I didn't take any benadryl, and today I discovered that it had grown even larger than before! Not cool.

I can only assume that this one isn't a mosquito bite, since I've never had a mosquito bite that looked or behaved like this. :( What else was biting this summer at Baitcon?