planned flavors

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I'm making the following:
Wafer-Thin Mint
Lemon Curd
Orange Curd
Tiger Stripe (orange ice cream with licorice swirl)
Ginger Sorbet
Ginger-Cherry Sorbet
Malted Vanilla Fudge Chunk (may end up being Malted Chocolate Fudge Chunk if I can't find any plain malt powder instead of chocolate malt powder)

trowa_barton is making:
Key Lime Pie
I <3 Huckleberry
Spicy Brains (chocolate spicy chai ice cream)
Watermelon-Sake Sorbet
Just Plain Strawberry, Dammit

Tonight we have made the lime curd and the licorice sauce for the Tiger Stripe. The licorice sauce is really good (if you like black licorice, that is!), though I could not get it perfectly smooth. It looks a little like fresh asphalt. :)

Comments

[thespian.livejournal.com]

look in the british food section of Shaw's, for the brand 'Horlicks' (there may well be other brands, but I'm pretty sure I've seen that there, though yes, they do add and drop things randomly).

I am also pretty sure the brazilian bodega in Union Square has it, too.

Other option is just go to Herrell's and ask 'em to sell you a cup or two from their supply ;-)

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I was looking for Horlick's, but didn't see it. Maybe I was just looking in the wrong section. I'll look again in the Britfood aisle (and also at Harvest Coop today). They did have both Ovaltine and Milo for chocolate malt.

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Also give Cardullos a try. I know I've seen malt there in plain old vanilla.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I'll look there if I can't find the Horlick's where thespian suggested I look.

[donnad.livejournal.com]

I was planning on doing the Mandarin Ginger again.
And the Key-lime sorbet.

Man, we all should start coordinating so we don't make duplicate flavors.

And Just Plain Chocolate Dammit (AKA Yucky Chocolate)

I'm curious what you did for the licorice?

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

Those are different enough that it will be more than fine.
Yay for Yucky Chocolate!

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

It happens.
I remember last year when someone made a flavor called "Spicy Grains".

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

The key lime that trowa_barton is making is ice cream, not sorbet, so I think it's enough different from yours that it's not a duplicate. Also, I'm probably going to add lime to the ginger sorbet, which I almost forgot about (odd that I could forget, since that's a usual flavor of mine!).

I've noticed sometimes that there are flavor trends and I never know quite where they originated. The year that I did basil-ginger-mint sorbet, there were at least two other basil flavors. :-}

What I ended up doing for the licorice sauce was to take Australian soft black licorice chunks that I bought from Trader Joe's and put it in a pot with some blackstrap molasses, some water, and a bit of sugar and honey, then cooked it down until it was soft and gooey. It wouldn't melt all the way, so I tried to smooth it out first by mashing with a potato masher, then by using the stick blender. It's still a bit lumpy, but I think it'll do.

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Ditto this. I remember the year when there happened to be so many basil variations and there were also 2 tomato flavors one a sorbet and one an ice cream. The contrast of having similar yet different was well worth it.

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

Those all sound wonderful! Yay!

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Om nom nom nom. :) Shall I make a large batch of the Wafer-Thin Mint, like I did last time?

[gravitrue.livejournal.com]

does it have ipecac in it?

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Yes.

If by ipecac you mean peppermint oil and Thin Mints. :)