This flavor is inspired by the fact that I get sick all the time. A cup of chamomile tea with lemon and honey hits the spot when I’m on the couch, under a blanket, binge watching The Crown. I found dried chamomile flowers at our local home-brewing shop in Austin, but you might also find…
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The rosemary flavor is really nice during the winter holidays, especially if you’re stuck in Texas with no snow and no Christmas tree. So I’m sharing this now in the hopes that you make some this season for your friends and family, who will mock you for saying things like “subtle notes of evergreen on the nose”.
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Happy Halloween! Here’s a spooky treat for y’all. But don’t be scared away–it’s not as spicy as it sounds, and you can easily make it less or more spicy on your own terms.
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I recently had an amazing meal at Aviary in Austin, where the waiter recommended their pasta featuring blistered shishito ricotta. It was a subtle but unique twist on a milk product–something I’m always going for in my ice cream flavors–so I decided to recreate it in the form of an ice cream. Blistering shishitos sounds…
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This ice cream recipe is inspired by my recent trip to Maine, where the blueberries are famous, but not quite ripe yet. Nevertheless, I picked up some homemade blueberry jam at a roadside farm stand, and came home to blueberry season here in Texas.
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After hearing about this combo on Gastropod, I had to make this flavor into ice cream. When I blind taste tested this on 3 different people, the first person said this ice cream tasted just like raspberries, the second said it was “extra fudgey,” and the third person still doesn’t believe that it wasn’t peanut butter. All I know is that it’s really, really good.
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Exactly a year ago, my brother Bryan came to visit. Thanks to SXSW, to my dismay, all my favorite places to show him were closed for private parties and events. He was also only supposed to stay for a weekend, but when a blizzard hit Boston, he was forced to stay in town for a…
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This recipe is for the folks who down Shamrock Shakes from McDonald’s only slightly concerned that it has 54 ingredients, for the people who get their weekly Frappuccino fix the moment they get that first Spring Has Sprung feeling. This is fresh mint, real coffee, and little luck (2 shots of Irish Whiskey).
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Last year, I went through Santa Fe on my way to Colorado and made a pit stop at Joseph’s. Sometimes we save money by camping or driving places just so that we can put it towards really good food, and Joseph’s is a perfect example of that. For dessert, I ordered Duck Fat Caramel Tamari…
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This is the ice cream of your childhood fantasies. This is the slogan of your campaign for Vice President of the fourth grade. This is the first time you went to the movies without parents and spent all your hard-earned babysitting money on both Bruncha Crunch and refillable popcorn, and combined them into one sweet and salty pile of perfection.
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