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[whuffle.livejournal.com]

The kitchen renovation is done. (Or at least done enough that what's left is cosmetics and we're past inspection.) The ice cream maker has been found and pulled out of the basement. Tonight, I bought the ingredients for my first test batch of savory garlic herb cream cheese ice cream.

While searching for the recipe I'd seen for a Garlic Ice Cream that I wanted to use as a base for my experiment, I came up with a new idea inspired by the first of our farmshare that will be arriving next week: New Green Pea Ice Cream.

What do you think? Worth buying some peas and trying a test batch? Or is it just too much like baby food....

Comments

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

I think New Green Pea Ice Cream sounds delish, and can imagine it atop a nice hot bowl of corn and carrots.

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Still working on the idea. I sort of like Hammercock's suggestion posted to my own journal of making a butter ice cream with minced chunks of green pea in it. But I was also thinking of all those really nice restaurants I've been to that serve dishes with new peas in them and how wonderful the flavor is. Its definately worth a test batch at home.

[lakmiseiru.livejournal.com]

The taste of a new sugar snap pea fresh out of the pod is sweet and nothing like baby food :^) It sounds quite refreshing. Yum!

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I'm thinking of the dishes you get at high end restaurants where they are using really fresh new peas and they taste so amazing.... Hammercock suggested in my own journal that I make a butter ice cream with minced peas in it. The idea is certainly worth a test run at home.

[lakmiseiru.livejournal.com]

That's more what I was thinking, yes - the barely-cooked pea flavor before all the sugars disappear.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

J and I are now quite familiar with mushy peas (the Brits were never known for their food) and this ice cream idea sounds like cold, mushy peas. Hrm.

Maybe make it a sorbet? Like cucumber sorbet, it might really be tasty.

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeewwwwwww! I remember going to Japan and having smooth green pea or corn soup at the beginning of every hotel meal we had. It was really nasty. And yes, the English are missing the point when it comes to food preparation in a huge way. Sometimes I think their sense of cuisine is still stuck in the post-war era of canned goods and rationing.

I was really thinking of the higher end restaurants where you get dishes made with incredibly fresh new peas that have barely been cooked at all. Hammercock suggested making a butter ice cream with minced peas in it. I might give that a whirl (Visualize Whirled Peas>>> Yeah, I kill myself.)

Its worth doing a few test run batches at home to see whether or not it pans out to be any good.