Earl Grey Lavender Ice Cream

Dan and I pulled out our ice cream maker on Monday to try making some home-churned Earl Grey lavender ice cream. I was craving Ici’s Earl Grey-flavored ice cream, and thought, “why not make it ourselves?” It turned out delicious — we’ll definitely be making it again!

We used to make gelato, sorbet and ice cream all the time when we first got this ice cream maker three years ago while we were living in Berkeley. I found a few pictures of some of our creations from back then… can’t wait to try making them again!

making chocolate hazelnut gelato — Chocolate hazelnut gelato... this was one of our favorites!

chocolate hazelnut gelato — I had a whole bunch of unused Chinese takeout-style paper containers left over from a design project at the time, and they were perfect for storing our frozen creations. We'd have 5 - 6 flavors at a time in the freezer!

I especially loved making sorbet -- here's a bowl with four flavors of sorbet I had made at the time: kiwi, strawberry, orange, and cantaloupe! Like I said, we went on bit of a sorbet-making spree at the time...

Since having Mio, we got a little lazy and our ice cream maker didn’t get to see much use, but as summer approaches, we hope to pull it more often again! 😀

5 Comments

Gina
May 31, 2012 @ 10:55 am

Can I just say that I think it’s awesome and adorable how you and Dan work together on your culinary pursuits? So sweet how he likes to be your assistant in cooking and baking. Not many guys out there who’ll do that!

And your ice cream looks A-MAZING. Let’s make this together someday! 😀
- Misono
  May 31, 2012 @ 10:55 pm
  
  haha* Thanks! Dan’s participation makes it more fun to try new recipes, and it’s kind of nice thing to do together — especially since we can’t go out on dates together as freely, now that we have Mio. It’s a great bonding experience to cook and bake together! I appreciate his willingness to play sous chef to all my endeavors, because I think without him, I’d give up or get frustrated a lot more easily if something were to go wrong while cooking. I’m a lucky gal for sure! 😛
Yasuko
June 2, 2012 @ 9:51 pm

I am a tea drinker, and it sounds tasty!