The Lemongrass

Real cream ice cream? Now you're talking!

These babies are on special this weekend, so we grabbed three... 1 for each day until Monday - the Victoria Day holiday :)

We weren't able to find our fave Vanilla Swiss Almond Haagen Dazs, that's why we settled for an alternative. For us, it is the best tasting flavor with the shortest list of ingredients. The two brands pictured above use cream as a main component, that's why the texture is rich and velvety, unlike the skimmed milk base. Cream ice cream is usually harder than commercial milk ice cream because it is denser with less air. Most milk is composed of 80 to 90 percent water. The remaining 10 percent consists of the major nutrients needed by the body for good health, including fats, carbohydrates, proteins, minerals, and vitamins.

This is what I'm talking about:

Haagen-Dazs Vanilla Swiss Almond

Ingredients: Cream, Skim Milk (Lactose Reduced), Sugar, Chocolate Coated Almonds (Almonds, Sugar, Chocolate, Cocoa Butter), Egg Yolks, Corn Syrup, Natural Vanilla, Salt.


Nestlé Kit Kat Loaded Ice Cream

Ingredients: Modified Milk Ingredients, Milk Ingredients, Sugar, Coconut Oil, Chocolate Ripple (Sugar, Water, Sweetened Condensed Skim Milk, Glucose, Hyrogenated Coconut Oil, Cocoa, Salt, Artificial Flavour, Carrageenan, Potassium Sorbate), Kit Kat Pieces (Sugar, Wafer [Sugar, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Wheat Flour, Corn Starch, Cocoa, Salt, Yeast, Soy Lecithin, Sodium Bicarbonate, Artificial Flavour], Coconut Oil, Cocoa, Milk Ingredients, Soy Lecithin, Flavours), Glucose, Cake Crunchies (Sugar, Wheat Flour, Vegetable Oil [Soybean, Cottonseed And Palm Kernel Oils], Modified Milk Ingredients, Salt, Soy Lecithin, Sodium Bicarbonate, Flavour), Cocoa, Salt, Mono- And Diglycerides, Cellulose Gum, Carob Bean Gum, Carrageenan, Artificial Flavour, Colour.

Hubby bought me this Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker so that we can make our own deserts from cream. When we first got this, we were in an ice cream frenzy mode experimenting with different flavors and textures (sorbet, slurpees, etc.). The momentum died down during the cold season so I have to unearth it from our dungeon. It's ice cream season again this summer and I will be posting some recipes.

Animal products these days are also tainted with antibiotics and chemicals, which gave birth to the "free from" trend. Dairy products, specifically from cows, contained traces of hormones administered for continuous milk production. Blah, blah, blah... another long story.

For now, let me curl up and enjoy my stokes.