Looks like I’ll have to eat more ice cream, lol!
I make my own malts, the thick style like the ice cream store. Gobs of vanilla ice cream in a largish bowl I can grasp easily or an enamelware saucepan with a sturdy comfortable handle.
Put in about 1 to 2 tsp malt powder. Dump in some chocolate syrup, not too much. A couple pumps at the expensive ice cream store.
Oh and I do use premium ice cream, Blue Bunny Blue Ribbon regular vanilla, used to have a cheap brand that tasted good but don't carry it any more. I'm real picky about vanilla ice cream.
Now it sounds hard but goes quicker than you would expect. I have a soup spoon, sturdy, with a thick, comfortable plastic, red handle. First I chop up the ice cream, then I smash it against the sides of the bowl, then I start the stirring until you can't see any streaks (or just before, I like a couple white spots left). You can always freeze some of it but I don't. I love it when it just starts to melt around the sides.
If you want to fool somebody, put it in some fancier glass. I eat it out of the pan. Yum. I don't think I could tell the difference between what i make and the ice cream store (Whitey's).
Well now what have you done? You gave me an idea. Or inspired me to get one from my idea cloud. I have 6 or more clean ice cream containers, can't bring myself to put in recycling, and often have a good use for one. But not that many.
So I think why can't I burn some holes in the bottoms and make little herb gardens in them? Even though I have some nice pots and window boxes; these would be super easy to handle and just the right amount of soil and handles. It's too late for winter sowing but some herb seeds you can just plant any time. Some I can grow indoors in my sunroom.
Then I can set them up on the lids to drain better. Or not, depends. Line them up all neatly by a flower bed or in a sunny spot as close to the door as possible.
I'm going to start shopping for herb seeds now. Chef John always springs some fancy green stuff on me, and I hate it that even the store doesn't have it.
I could end up with a whole herb farm. And I can't really do any real gardening any more. Some you have to plant about every couple or three months or they get old; it will say on the package.
I have to buy a rosemary plant though. And I had to look up corn salad. Almazan Kitchen used that. Now if I can just find some pointy sweet red peppers like AlmazanKitchen. I did find some Italian ones but I wish they weren't quite so long and a little fatter at the top. They will do though. But I could only grow really small peppers in ice cream containers.
ping Jamestown1630. Can't keep me quiet for long sometimes.