suzette roberts

// 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...

 

 

// The Most Refreshing Milk Chocolate Ice Cream

 

Definitely let-our-hair-down, convertible-style music for our weekend by ♫ Paul McCartney and Wings 

Paul McCartney & Wings 1976 - Silly Love Songs - HQ

 

I had actually prepped this post for tomorrow, Friday, but since many of you have enjoyed trying these little recipes, and all good things do take time, I brought it a day forward to allow for a better balance, if desired to indulge. And also in time for our National Ice Cream Day this Sunday, July 16th. Growing up, chocolate ice cream was our favourite frozen childhood treat and I could never have too much of it regardless of our chillier evenings or windy weather. After missing this signature day for way too many years (still indulging nonetheless) while buried in other work, I decided to make my own this time around, with a lighter and more refreshing summer chocolate taste. With this in mind, I played around with a loved lighter milk chocolate bar-- Lindt's Swiss Classic Milk Chocolate, from the lovely folks at Lindt Canada, and was beyond myself happy with the results.

Happy National Ice Cream Day!