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// Gianduja (Chocolate Hazelnut) Ice Cream

Right around this time last year as I totally, 110% relaxed on my sister's couch, watching a series (of course I can't remember what series it was now), while gingerly enjoying this irresistible holiday treat, each and every bite-sized moment of it, I casually thought about bringing to life its frozen counterpart. But, it was just a fleeting thought as the holiday flavour was already set, and on tight precision scheduled to go. Deviating from the plan or even the slightest addition to it would have created immense chaos and one thing I try to avoid these days is any FOMO when it comes to our holidays and chilled downtime. Valentines soon came around, and then Easter, and the thought lingered a tad longer than the last, but I wasn't 'there' yet...

As I peacefully settled into summer with feeling a needed calm, lift, and breath of fresh air, I felt ready to do the quiet research to create this desired frozen flavour which required more gentle attention and intricate balance. Good timing as it were, I am so happy to officially debut this month's holiday kickoff flavour: Gianduja (Chocolate Hazelnut)...

 

... with an emphasis on our hazelnuts.

// Lemon Cream Ice Cream

It's unanimous. We support short work weeks and longer weekends. :) And just like that, without any hoopla, searching, contemplating, or even quiet telltale signs, a fun adventure for fall is now on the agenda-- and I'm pretty excited about it with a challenge in the mix... more to come soon. I hope you had a relaxing holiday, and were able to merge into the week, your way. Some of us needed that extra day to steadily re-align the necessaries before returning back to the office. We get that too. :) 

On to our flavour of the month: Lemon Cream, which was and still is a complete surprize for October, especially with just waving goodbye to summer. My planned flavour felt totally out of the loop with...

// Salted Chocolate Ice Cream

This voluptuously smooth and velvety Salted Chocolate ice cream has been the order of our days this month for a refreshing time-out with our escalating and humid temperatures on quite the rotation. The soft sea salt flakes drive the flavour, allowing for a very modest amount of incorporated sugar, while giving the cocoa full-reign to shine through each and every scoop. It's become my new favourite in recent times for this very fact, with its fresh, clean and pure taste.

 

// Pineapple Rum Ice Cream

Happy Sunday! So, how was it? Our first week back (down & done) with all our returning and new kiddos in grand tow... :) We set full sail in the south last week and are still wondering-- really, already, we're back? Ya, that's what happened last week. It really did. I hope there was a steadiness to your week and now that it's Sunday, you're smiling and looking forward to tomorrow (I sure am), after some balanced weekend stretch time of course. Very. important. And now about our frozen flavour of the month: Pineapple Rum. We could easily call it, the poolside party pleaser as we alternated between the alcohol-free and fruitier frozen scoop (for our kids), and a light rum-infused adult blend keeping in theme with celebrating Jamaica's Independence Day this month, and our Jamaica Coat of Arms with its pineapples. A few behind-the-scenes with its beginning stages after the jump...

// The Evening Espresso Ice Cream

Combining two loved favourites: our playful and lighthearted North American cafè lattes and Italy's more serious and sophisticated espresso moments, I decided on this début flavour with a recent behind-the-scenes tasting event. Before I got a chance to catch my breath from the busy fun and joy of it all-- the making and the sharing, it grew wings of its own kind and ventured into new territory. Celebrating July's flavour of the month: The Evening Espresso. The Evening Espresso takes our loved and refreshing iced coffees and frappes to the next level. It's bold and spirited with a just-right balance of ingredients to enjoy our deep slumber when it's time to call it a night, and while the moon remains out at play...

// Roasted Summer Cherries Ice Cream

Music to soothe the soul from ♫ this loved CD...

Stonecoat - Answer Mother Earth.

 

 

Our summer cherries (the print many of you have been asking me about now in my Print Shop)... they are in and I mean crazy in-- with new variations arriving at times by the day. After bringing forward my middle sister Jan's planned loved exotic tea ice cream for her August birthday, on Mother's Day, I had to come up with a new surprize flavour for last month. At first I thought of this citrus as she loved an earlier dessert treat for one of our spring suppers, but soon saw her diving into bowls of fresh summer cherries and quickly changed gears to now being on the hunt for the mellowest cherries I could find. There is this wise old saying that if you're craving something, it means your body needs something vital that's in it... so I decided to bring-it-on with a lux treat. It took just under three weeks of cherry tasting at the market to secure what I was looking for-- Nature's Candy, from Washington, and to get this summer goodness in active process-- and in time for her birthday week-- deadlines, deadlines must be met...