Girl Scout Cookies n Cream Ice Cream

It’s Girl Scout Cookie season! I went to a party and ended up coming home with boxes of Do-Si-Dos, Thin Mints, and Trefoils. Having already consumed many cookies, I decided to use some of the cookies to make Girl Scout Cookie ice cream. Cookies n Cream is my favorite childhood ice cream, so what could…

Cheesy Butternut Squash Farro

A friend bought a ton of farro and then realized she had no idea what to do with it. I told her I was happy to experiment with the brown rice-like grain, and the next thing I knew she was giving all of it to me. I’d had it in salads/grain bowls before, but wanted…

Mushroom Leek Pie

I had such good results with the Yam Beef Biscuit Pot Pie and still had more canned biscuits to use up, so I decided another biscuit pot pie was in order… this time with mushrooms and leeks. I guess it’s a testament to the success of this Mushroom Leek Pie that after eating it my…

Passion Fruit Ice Cream

I’m thrilled it’s passion fruit season again, and thanks to this year’s heavy rains the vines in the neighborhood are heavy with fruit! So of course I had to tinker with an ice cream flavored with one of my favorite fruits. Many of the passion fruit ice creams I’ve tasted hardly had any passion fruit…

Peach Cheesecake Chunk Ice Cream

When my cheese guy gifted me two huge containers of ricotta, I immediately made 3 Ricotta Cheesecakes. They were pretty rapidly devoured, but that’s a lot of cheesecake, so luckily there were a couple leftover pieces. I’m always on the lookout for ice cream mix-ins, so I secreted the leftovers into the freezer for my…

Peanut Butter Chocolate Pretzel Ice Cream

I loved the idea of peanut butter-filled pretzels as an ice cream mix-in, but worried about the pretzels getting soggy. So I gave them a chocolate coating, which sealed out the moisture and gave them another layer of flavor. An additional swirl of peanut butter (because there’s no such thing as too much PB) and…

Cookies and Cream Ice Cream

As a kid, Cookies and Cream Ice Cream was my go-to flavor. As I’m still a kid at heart, I don’t know why it took me this long into my ice cream-making journey to get around to trying my hand at Cookies and Cream Ice Cream… especially since all I did was mix Oreo pieces…

Chocolate Almond Ice Cream with Peanut Swirl

I’ve been successful at mixing fun stuff into a vanilla ice cream base, so why not try a chocolate base? And what would I mix in? Chocolate-coated almonds and peanut butter! It is as good as it sounds. Guessipe Whisk the cream, milk, sugar, and cocoa powder together in a pot. Heat until the mixture…

Cheesy Garlic Jalapeno Frittata

In preparation for going out of town, I was using up everything I could from my fridge. That led to this Cheesy Garlic Jalapeno Frittata, which my boyfriend could not stop talking about. I usually have these ingredients (you can use any mix of cheeses you want, but I’ve noted one of my fav combos…

Berry Cobbler Ice Cream

I’ve been trying to come up with shortcut mix-ins for the fun ice cream flavors I crave, because it’s a lot of work to have to make mix-ins in advance of making the actual ice cream. I thought plain old saltine pieces might work as a cobbler mix-in, and I was right. Combine that with…

Cherry Cheesecake Ice Cream

I wanted to make a cherry cheesecake flavor of ice cream, but didn’t want to have to make a whole cheesecake just to break it up as a mix-in. So I decided I could make cheesecake flavor ice cream, then mix in graham cracker pieces and swirl in store-bought cherry preserves. It worked wonderfully, and…

Chocolate Saltine Ice Cream with Cinnamon Nut Butter Swirl

My friend gave me a jar of cinnamon nut butter, with the request that I make some kind of dessert with it (and share it with him, of course). Since I’m on an ice cream-making kick right now, I thought maybe I could use the nut butter as an ice cream swirl. I paired it…