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This is one of those posts that I have been putting off writing, because I just don’t know what I want to say about this ice cream. It was pretty good, I mean hell, it was ice cream after all. It is long gone from the freezer so I can’t retaste it for inspiration.

What I recall about the ice cream was that it was just okay, nothing spectacular. I like my ice cream to be more creamy and this was more, icy. I got the recipe from The Silver Spoon by Phaidon Press. This is a great book, it is like an encyclopedia of Italian food. It is on loan to us from my one and only sister Emily. She got it a few years ago as a graduation present. The book is literally thousands of pages, so I am slowly leafing through it for ideas and inspirations.

I also think that part of my problem with the ice cream was that Nick wanted to add dark chocolate chunks to it. And while I would normally not scoff at adding dark chocolate chunks to anything, I was just not feeling it in this coffee ice cream. I really love coffee ice cream, and I like it to be all smooth and coffee like. I don’t need any chocolate trying to interrupt me and the coffee. In fact, now that I think about it, I don’t really like chocolate chunks in my ice cream period. There is something about the hard frozen chocolate pieces that doesn’t appeal to me. Does that make me weird?

So, I am not going to give a recipe because (a) I didn’t love this, and (b) it would be copyright infringement or some other sort of publishing violation since I would be copying it straight out of the book with zero changes.

Instead, I will ask you all to leave in the comment area what your favorite ice cream/frozen yogurt recipes are. I could use some suggestions in that department. We rarely make ice cream and I think our ice cream machine is feeling unloved.

By the way - that is Dorie Greenspan’s homemade hot fudge on the ice cream. (Now, that is my idea of how to add chocolate to ice cream) However, I was displeased with how it totally seized up and froze as soon as it hit the ice cream. Any tips?