ICE CREAM!!!!

With my birthday I bought . . . DRUM ROLL PLEASE

. . . 1 Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream and Dessert Book . . .

. . . 1 Williams Sonoma (pronounced So No Ma in Lindsay Land) Ice Cream and Sorbet-Something-or-the-Other Book . . .

and . . .

******** 1 ICE CREAM MAKER!!!! ********

I bought the Kitchen Aid Attachment Ice Cream Maker. Rick thought I was a little nuts (so did Mom - who never said such, but I could hear it in her voice), but he didn't protest. So I began with Alton Brown's premium chocolate ice cream recipe (which was at least 2 cups half-and-half, a cup of heavy cream, 8 egg yolks, and over a cup of sugar) and crossed my fingers. It was unbelievably delicious. The base itself was as thick as pudding, and thus was even thicker once it churned and some air whipped into it. Frozen for four hours, it was like a velvety thick frozen custard. Overnight, it turned a little bit icy and was the consistency of hard ice cream. Amazing.

Rick no longer thinks I'm nuts and is looking forward to trying to de-fatten all the recipes in the afore-mentioned books.