I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream

[poliphilo]

The heat wave faded away and since then the weather has been much more the sort of thing one expects from April- ie patchy and changeable. Yesterday we went to Eastbourne and it was mostly cloudy, with sunny intervals as the afternoon wore on- but warm enough for us to sit out on the pavement and eat Italian ice-cream. "Ice-cream unites the generations," said Ailz. And that's true. In recent years I've lost my appetite for most sweet things but show me a shop selling "real" ice-cream- and I'll swerve from the direction in which I'm headed and go buy some. We had three scoops each. Mine were ginger, strawberry and lemon sorbet.

Comments

[oakmouse]

Ginger, strawberry, and lemon sorbet sounds like a gorgeous combiation!

One of my regrets with the dairy allergy is that I miss green tea ice cream. It's so lovely in the summer heat.

[poliphilo]

That's a shame.

I've never tried that flavour, but we have an ice cream maker and I could give it a go some time.

[oakmouse]

It's really nice. They use the powdered green tea (matcha) for the tea ceremony, and it's laid on lightly --- just enough to give the ice cream a nice pistachio-green color. The ice cream has a slight astringency behind the richness, which is just lovely if you like that kind of thing, and the sugar in the ice cream mellows the bitterness of the tea powder. It's a good balance.