The Unofficial Ice Cream thread

Portland August Menu

Caramel Corn on the Cob
Golden sumptuousness. We lightly sautee fresh corn kernels in a bit of salted brown butter, juice the kernels and add a bit of cream… allowing the sweetness of the corn to be the star of the show. The resulting ice cream is voluptuous in flavor and seductive in color. Tender ribbons of caramel find themselves drizzled into this ice cream; not to interfere with the corn-y flavor but to only help the ice cream melt in your mouth just a little faster.


Carrot Cake Batter & Pralined Hazelnuts
An excuse to have your (carrot) cake and eat it too. Have you ever kind of wanted to eat cake…or, wanted to eat ice cream… but then thought, nah, I should eat vegetables. Well we’re here to say you can have it all. This ice cream is brimming and dense. We can’t promise this ice cream will satiate your daily nutritional requirements but can promise that it will satiate your daily yummy-ness requirements.


Green Fennel & Maple
Woah, these fennel bulbs are so plump they’ll make you blush! Fresh fennel from Sauvie Island Organics is slowly steeped in Vermont maple syrup. We love Sauvie Island Organics because, on top of growing amazing organic produce, they run a scholarship program that provides a yearly supply of fresh produce to families all around Portland that otherwise would not have access to healthy food. The maple syrup we use in this ice cream is pretty unique because Morse Farms in Vermont has been in the family for over 200 years! We’ve tasted a lot of maple syrup in our days, and this is the best!


Zucchini Bread w/ Chocolate Freckles
Yummmm, zucchini bread. The destitute destiny of all that zucchini we so ambitiously planted in early spring. Our zucchini bread ice cream is lavishly packed with cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg layered with massive hunky hunks of tender zucchini bread and a buckshot of tiny freckles of single-origin, Portland roasted chocolate. We love this ice cream for the sheer ingenuity of something so basic yet so darn delicious.


Roasted Parsnip & Banana Sorbet
After a long roast, these summer parsnips begin to soften to the texture of custard with the sweet caramelized flavors of bourbon and vanilla. So… why wouldn’t these be the perfect pairing for bananas? In fact, in Britain during WWII when bananas weren’t available they would use roasted parsnips as “mock bananas”. While that straight substitution sounds not-so-fun, the pairing is ingenious. The bananas and parsnips dance with each other mimicking each other with sweet spiciness. We added a hint of clove & cinnamon to help nudge this sorbet into a recipe that’s unforgettable.


LA August Menu

Caramel Corn on the Cob
Golden sumptuousness. We lightly sautee fresh corn kernels in a bit of salted brown butter, juice the kernels and add a bit of cream… allowing the sweetness of the corn to be the star of the show. The resulting ice cream is voluptuous in flavor and seductive in color. Tender ribbons of caramel find themselves drizzled into this ice cream; not to interfere with the corn-y flavor but to only help the ice cream melt in your mouth just a little faster.


Eggplant Honey Custard
This one’ll make you want to stick your face in the bucket, soaking in the glorious sweetness of honey, soft creaminess of southern california eggplants with skin as squeaky as a dolphin, and the fatty dense richness of a yolk-y custard ice cream. A dash of freshly microplaned nutmeg helps pull everything together making this flavor pairing surprisingly simple and delicate; without any of the flavors particularly overwhelming the other.


Green Fennel & Maple
Woah, these fennel bulbs are so plump they’ll make you blush! We steep and juice every part of the fennel stalk to stern including the seeds, pollen, everything. When combined with maple, the pleasant astringency of the fennel can be fully appreciated for it’s full culinary glory. The maple syrup we use in this ice cream is pretty unique because Morse Farms in Vermont has been in the family for over 200 years. We’ve tasted a lot of maple syrup in our days, and this is the best!


Strawberry Tomato Water Sherbet
We’re timid to call this a flavor pairing because instead of complimenting each other, strawberries and tomatoes harmoniously echo each other. In fact, vine-ripened tomatoes from Southern Cali are so freaking sweet, plump, and aromatic that they provoke more “strawberry-ness” than most (actual) strawberries you’ll find in the grocery store. We lightly roast strawberries and bright red, drool-inducing tomatoes with a hint of sugar just until they begin to break down. Together, the strawberries and tomatoes go straight into the ice cream machine to produce a perfectly bright, fruity sorbet.


California Avocado & Hazelnut Praline Sorbet
Two ingredients with flavors as delicate as can be. By lightly roasting, candying and pureeing hazelnuts and folding them into ripened and pureed avocados, our goal with this flavor was to make a combination that honors the nutty-ness of these crazy delicious California avocados. And this ice cream doesn’t merely honor the avocado… nay! This sorbet is the epitomistic tribute to all of avocado’s glory. This sorbet is like a stick of butter on a (avocado) tree limb bathing in crystal nuts. This sorbet is like rubbing your face in velvet while petting a small puppy goldendoodle. This sorbet will eternally alter your expectation of what a ripe avocado will taste like.
 
^^^ I would buy most of the August flavours if they were not so expensive. But unless you have a subscription to S&S, why do you care?? Buy something else instead, plenty of other options that are just as good and cheaper.
 
Some of those flavors I would never put into an ice cream ha. Some really odd combos
 
Now these I can do....

Pickles in ice cream is just wrong

Here is what I am talking about:

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Check the reaction at 1:30 lol

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LOL at 2:30 here, and the dog in the background.
 
S&S Pulled through, but messed up one flavor (Should have Breakfast compliment crunch instead of the may flavor honey and ricotta cookie). Probably ran out because it was from the April Flavors:

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Review cinnatopia asap so I can live vicariously through your taste buds for a moment.... I think that may have ended up one of the goats for me
 
Here is what I am talking about:

[video=youtube;1gxiN4gWrMo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gxiN4gWrMo[/video]
Check the reaction at 1:30 lol

[video=youtube;PIqfxF8tu3s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIqfxF8tu3s[/video]
LOL at 2:30 here, and the dog in the background.
GNO....might wanna pull the trigger on the carrot cake lop
 
GNO....might wanna pull the trigger on the carrot cake lop

For the price it'll be tough to pull the trigger, but if one flavour is going to do it might be that one lol.
 
I am thinking to crowdfund for a S&S order because I don't have connections like The Solution

Here is my pitch...one of the pints will be the Dill Pickle Sorbet so you get the pleasure of me suffering through eating that. Will post detailed pics and review. Who is in?:wave:
 
I am thinking to crowdfund for a S&S order because I don't have connections like The Solution

Here is my pitch...one of the pints will be the Dill Pickle Sorbet so you get the pleasure of me suffering through eating that. Will post detailed pics and review. Who is in?:wave:

Or we could just save our money and mail you a stomach virus haha
 
Or we could just save our money and mail you a stomach virus haha

You are getting wiser by the day
Those Canadian's are losing their mind.
Maybe he needs more poutine and common sense :)

he should save the money so we can all meet up and close down a buffet and then crash an ice cream joint.
 
You are getting wiser by the day
Those Canadian's are losing their mind.
Maybe he needs more poutine and common sense :)

he should save the money so we can all meet up and close down a buffet and then crash an ice cream joint.

Says the guy with no passport.
 
While I was up North at our cottage I checked out the frozen section of a grocery store.
Lots of our Ontario brand Kawartha and in pints! Never seen them in anything but big tubs before.

Decent option up here considering the cals
 
While I was up North at our cottage I checked out the frozen section of a grocery store.
Lots of our Ontario brand Kawartha and in pints! Never seen them in anything but big tubs before.

Decent option up here considering the cals

I need to get you to columbus. Jeni's and Graeters in the same day
= Boom
 
Thats why we meet in Buffalo or somewhere in the US.
You guys have horrible Ice cream selection up north. Come get the good stuff.

Not pre-packed pints but independent ice cream & gelato shops are good. When you don't leave the area you miss out just sayin

mkretz Demetre's Cafe was great eh?

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I am thinking to crowdfund for a S&S order because I don't have connections like The Solution

Here is my pitch...one of the pints will be the Dill Pickle Sorbet so you get the pleasure of me suffering through eating that. Will post detailed pics and review. Who is in?:wave:

You can afford it
 
Thats why we meet in Buffalo or somewhere in the US.
You guys have horrible Ice cream selection up north. Come get the good stuff.

Take that back the best buffet by far is at the Seneca Niagara casino in Niagara falls us..... Every type of food you could think of and desert....so legit
 
Not pre-packed pints but independent ice cream & gelato shops are good. When you don't leave the area you miss out just sayin

mkretz Demetre's Cafe was great eh?

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That was pretty amazing.... We also have lake effect and an old school ice cream sundae shop and chocolate shoppe everything hand made daily..,Antoinette's sweets
 
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Say hello to our second bonus flavor, Mexican Chocolate! This spicy dark chocolate ice cream with cinnamon and hint of heat is a homage to the traditional sweet treat served in homes South of the Border! Available for a limited time in scoop shops and online!

Graeters.
 
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Say hello to our second bonus flavor, Mexican Chocolate! This spicy dark chocolate ice cream with cinnamon and hint of heat is a homage to the traditional sweet treat served in homes South of the Border! Available for a limited time in scoop shops and online!

Graeters.

Graeters trying to be Jeni's ? I always thought their bases were just slightly above average, really the absurd ant mix-ins that push them over the top.
 
Graeters trying to be Jeni's ? I always thought their bases were just slightly above average, really the absurd ant mix-ins that push them over the top.

This has been in their lineup over the years. They do a good job with it, but again not one of their top tier flavors.
 
This has been in their lineup over the years. They do a good job with it, but again not one of their top tier flavors.
If I see in a stor for $5 maybe grab it but I believe it's scoop shop only so never going to get that over buckeye or CnC ...
 
AH is bad luck, just had like six pints melt due to my basement fridge becoming unplugged somehow ugh
 
Tried the Sam's Choice mint bark moosetracks last night (had just seen it show up at my local Walmart a couple weeks ago). Meh. Nothing to write home about and definitely wouldn't re-buy. Not bad at all, but just a basic mint ice cream with large chunks of the hard fudge/bark in there. Good amount of it, but just nothing that exciting.
 
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Baskin-Robbins’ Flavor of the Month for June 2016 is the Made With Milky Way Bars Ice Cream. The flavor features Milky Way bar-flavored ice cream with Milky Way bar and milk chocolate pieces and a caramel ribbon.
 
lol'd

I just picture the dogs howling while you cry

Luna has never barked in her life, we had to have the vet look at her vocal chords as a pup

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I wonder how border security likes dogs coming through, she looks pretty vicious...
 
Anybody tried Halo Top? Macros are incredible.

Plenty of us. Most will agree it's prob the best of the low cal ice creams. That and enlightened brand.

Lemon cake and mint choc chip are my top two halo followed closely by bday cake.
 
Plenty of us. Most will agree it's prob the best of the low cal ice creams. That and enlightened brand.

Lemon cake and mint choc chip are my top two halo followed closely by bday cake.

I haven't got to Halo Mint yet but Lemon and Bday are great in that order. I had a box of Mint chocolate swirl Enlightened bars and enjoyed it.
 
I haven't got to Halo Mint yet but Lemon and Bday are great in that order. I had a box of Mint chocolate swirl Enlightened bars and enjoyed it.

I don't even really like mint choc things but the gf bought it and it's great. A top mint flavor for me
 
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