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My two favorite flavors are lavender and honey, so I thought it would be a good idea to make honey lavender ice cream! And it was the best idea. I mainly followed Emma’s recipe on A Beautiful Mess and added 1/4 cup of honey (thanks to Martha Stewart for the tips!).
Mmmmmm! I’m obsessed.
Anyway, Happy Groundhog Day. Hope you are having an inspired weekend. :)
This week was monumental! Well, as far as ice cream goes. My aunt and uncle gave me an ice cream maker as a graduation present last spring and I kept waiting for the right time to use it. I know what you’re thinking. It’s always the right time to make ice cream. I agree. Last week, I gave it a try and made bourbon baked apple ice cream. I followed Emma’s recipe on A Beautiful Mess, which was super straight forward and easy. Making ice cream is way too easy to make, which could cause serious problems with my 2013 health goals.
I used a Rome apple from an apple farm by my aunt and uncle’s house. We stopped by on our way to the thrift stores last weekend, and we were given lots of apple samples (and some apple crisp!).
This ice cream flavor ended up being too good to be true! I think I could literally eat it every day. You can find the recipe here. And like I said, it was so simple to make. The next day, because I have no self control, I made more ice cream out of my two favorite flavors in the world. I’ll post about it in a few days!
Have you ever made ice cream? What is your favorite kind?
On Thanksgiving, my aunt gave me a bunch of fruits and vegetables from her garden! One was a delicata squash. I didn’t know how I should cook it, so I looked up recipes and came across one for roasted cinnamon-ginger delicata squash from Averie Cooks. Since I didn’t have any ginger, I decided to go for cinnamon-sugar instead. It was so tasty! I’m definitely bookmarking this for future dinner ideas.
I followed this recipe, minus the ginger, and I added a little more sugar. They turned out to be wonderful lightly sweetened squash half-moons. Yum.
Do you have a favorite way of cooking squash?
Also, I just signed up for bi-monthly Farm Fresh To You deliveries and I received a red kuri squash. Any suggestions on how to eat one of those? I’m new to this. :)
Thai food is probably my favorite type of food. (Besides pizza, because come on.) Last week, I visited my friends Ryan and Alissa. I gave Ryan photos from the wedding we shot a couple weeks ago, and Alissa gave me a lesson in Thai cooking. We made curry with chicken and vegetables. Most of the credit goes to Alissa. I mean, I chopped up some mushrooms. But that’s really all.
Ryan just got the fanciest new camera. A Canon 6D. It is so cool. He took most of these pictures, but I picked up the camera a few times. We put it on a tripod and took pictures from Ryan’s cell phone. What the heck?! It was amazing.
We made sticky rice to go with the curry. It was a delicious meal that I’m going to make again and again. Dinner was followed with pumpkin ice cream and a ton of youtube videos. We think Bruno Mars is the best.
For the recipe, check out Alissa’s blog post from almost a year ago. I don’t know how it took us this long to cook Thai food together!
I thought my newfound interest in cooking would be short lived, but it has been going strong for a few weeks! Recently, I made spiced hot apple cider to celebrate the season. The recipe I used can be found on A Couple Cooks.
This recipe calls for apple juice, rum, cinnamon sticks, cloves, and star anise (so pretty!). My batch of apple cider turned out a little too strong in the rum area, so I added more apple juice. With or without rum, it’s a holiday season staple.
I’m so excited to be adding food to the blog! My “recipe box” category will contain recipes that I have collected and/or tried from other sources. Here and there, you might find an original recipe.
Anyway! What’s your favorite way to prepare hot apple cider?
Cooking is something I have never enjoyed. I love and appreciate food and people who create fancy meals on a whim. I also love food photography. But I’m not a chef or a baker or anything. However! I volunteered to make cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving this year. Even though I don’t like cooking on a regular basis, I have been craving new hobbies. Also, sometimes recipes just look really good and I feel compelled to try them out. Take these for instance:
1. Spiced Cranberry Sauce – The Kitchn
2. Cranberry Sauce with Port and Dried Figs – Epicurous
3. Pear, Brandy, and Walnut Cranberry Sauce – FOOD52
4. Cranberry Orange Rosemary Sauce – Joy the Baker
5. Spicy Cranberry-Chipotle Sauce – My Recipes
6. Red Wine Cranberry Sauce – Alexandra’s Kitchen
Mmmmmm! They all look so good. I’m thinking about making one recipe that is more classic and one that is a little boozy. Right now, I am leaning toward #4 and #6. The Kitchn has also provided this handy list of 7 ways to perk up your cranberry sauce. Good to know.
Which ones look good to you?