Thai Fresh is one of the many wonderful eateries in Austin that is focused on using local ingredients. In fact, part of the store is an old style grocery – selling anything from local sausages to hard to find Thai ingredients. The owner offers many cooking classes to teach people the delicious ways of Thai [...]
The first ice cream I tried from Cooking Light’s ice cream recipes was just ok – too sweet. You would think I would have learned from that! I think you guys know my propensity for salted sweets by now, so I was sucked into this recipe pretty easily. Again, it was good but would have [...]
I am ashamed that it has taken me so long to try this. ASHAMED. Seriously. This may be the only one ingredient recipe I ever post on this site, and it’s worth trying. I mean, it only requires one ingredient and it’s a cheap ingredient. You could even buy it organic and it would still [...]
Ice cream season has officially begun. I love getting my ice cream maker out of the cabinet and trying new recipes and getting reacquainted with old ones. Cooking Light ran a spend on several tasty sounding ice creams that I thought I would give a try. First up was this fresh mint ice cream. Sounds [...]
January 4, 2010 – 11:13 am
I swear to you, Deb from Smitten Kitchen and I have the same taste buds. She posts things on her blog and I MUST make them. Preferably the same day. She and I have a taste for salted caramel. I love salt. And sweets. So salted caramel is perfect. Turns out that butterscotch is salted [...]
December 7, 2009 – 11:04 am
Since I recently got over my fear of custards, I decided I would try out an ice cream recipe. And with all this pie and dessert that’s going around, what goes better than some vanilla bean ice cream? Again, I used vanilla bean paste from beanilla.com instead of whole beans and thought it was very [...]
November 30, 2009 – 1:24 pm
I know, ice cream during winter. I’m crazy. But I like frozen treats. Just in case you haven’t had enough cranberries yet… This recipe is a great way to utilize any that you may have left over. The vanilla and cranberry are unsuspecting companions but it really works. I used fresh cranberries and vanilla bean [...]