The Yum Yum Factor

We are just all ice cream, all the time around here right now, aren't we? This week alone I have posted recipes for  Mango Coconut Frozen Yogurt , Raspberry and Strawberry egg free ice cream and I haven't even gotten around to talking about the peach ice cream that is currently languishing in my freezer. Thank god I have a 14 year old boy to eat it all. "Vietnamese iced coffee with milk" , also known as  ca phe sua da  or  cà phê sữa đá  It is also called  ca phe nau da    in northern Vietnam but the restaurants that I frequent call it cafe sua da so that is what I am going with. Call it whatever you like but I call it insanely delicious. If you have never had one, go find a Vietnamese restaurant today and get one and come back and finish reading this. It's okay, I'll wait. Calling it iced coffee with milk is incredibly misleading. What it really is is insanely strong, thick coffee with sweetened condensed milk that you mix to...

The ice cream making continues here at home with a batch of raspberry using the eggless recipe from earlier when we made Strawberry Ice Cream . Because I really can't deal with raspberry seeds, we pureed all of the fruit and strained it to make a really smooth, slightly tart ice cream. I wanted to add some little chunks of dark chocolate, but Shack was having none of that. The Kid and I like stuff in our ice cream - chocolate chunks, pieces of brownie, cookie dough or oreos. Shack, our picky toddler, likes his ice cream smooth and the only chunks he can handle are chunks of the fruit. I am not saying that this ice cream is not delicious, because it is, but what does a girl have to do to get a bit of dark chocolate chunks in her ice cream? We are going to have to work something out around here. Eggless Raspberry Ice Cream 1 cup whipping cream 1 cup 18% cream 1/2 cup sugar pinch salt 1 1/2 cup raspberries Mix the berries with 1/4 cup of the sugar and let macera...