Butter Almond Ice Cream

As a child, it took me a while to branch out from vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream.  Maybe I was a little timid with new flavors, or perhaps those flavors were the only flavors in the freezer. When eating ice cream with other people, I remember eyeing other flavors with curiousity but refraining from trying anything new. 

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Orange Lavender Ice Cream

Orange lavender is a great flavor combination, and yet the pair of flavors met purely by accident in my kitchen this week.  The happy consequence of a brain fart while ice cream making. 

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Blueberry Buttermilk Sherbet

Blueberries are almost in season again in New Orleans.  For the past two years I have picked my own blueberries at an organic farm.  Each year I pick gallons of blueberries, eat as many as I can, then freeze the remainder for later consumption.  And inevitably each year I forget about some of them.

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Vietnamese Coffee Ice Cream

Vietnamese food is a relatively new experience for me.  In all of my past towns of residence, Vietnamese food was not easy to find so I usually didn't take the time to find it.  I didn't know what Pho was or how to pronounce it.  There was a Vietnamese stand at the local fresh market in Columbus, but it intimated me - people slurping from their large bowls of broth - what was that? 

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