It’s Ice Cream Time

Lavendar Lemon Balm Ice Cream
Lavender Lemon Balm Ice Cream

I have been an ice cream making fiend this weekend. Art works hard to grow all this great stuff, it’s my job to turn it into yummy ice cream!

Most of my friends are asking about the Rose Petal ice cream, which I’ve made 3 batches of so far.
In the collander!

Infusing the Roses into Cream

My favorite is the mint chocolate chip. It’s hard to imagine how good mint infusing in cream smells. I guess if you eat some of the ice cream, you can get the idea.

Chocolate Mint infusing in Cream

The total ice cream count so far is:

  • Rose Petal: 3 Batches
  • Mint Chocolate Chip: 2 Batches
  • Lavender Lemon Balm: 2 Batches
  • Locust Blossom: 2 Batches

Phew! I need more freezer space.

Here’s last year’s ice cream report, in case you missed it.

[tags]ice cream, herbal ice cream, cooking, spring, flowers[/tags]

Spring Grand Adventure

No other way to describe last weekend but a grand adventure.

Saturday
Can you smell me now?

We set out on a spring Ramp hunt. As you can see from the picture of Art lounging in the Ramps, we found plenty. But…we also found this sweet little toad
Toad on Guard

who posed for a few pictures and then lead us right to:
Fruit of the Forest

That’s right – $50/lb morel mushrooms. That shot is actually of the exact morel mushroom the toad was kind enough to draw my attention to! We found about a dozen more.
Thanks be to the heart of the forestmebeli

There was also a good deal of cooperative wildlife that day, including this snake who posed for several shots.

Eastern Garter Snake

Sunday
I can sum up Sunday in one word: Goslings.
The Parade

More insanely cute gosling pictures on Flickr.

[tags]spring, adventures, ramps, morels, goslings, foraging[/tags]

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