Apologies to all my loyal fans, I seemed to have hit a food loving lull. Rest assured, I think I’m back, at least until I start to hate food again, maybe in another 6 months. Until then, I’m going to conveniently skip all that’s happened since my last post and talk about what I made today.

For Christmas I got an ice cream attachment for my Kitchen Aid mixer. After a couple nights in the freezer, I was ready to make up a batch. My hubby wanted chocolate, but I decided that recipe had too many ingredients, so I choose the caramel pecan instead. After some confusion about putting the mixer together, I managed to get the mix and and give it a whirl. After the suggested amount of time, I was sad to see my mix was still fairly runny. I threw it in the freezer and after an hour the edges had frozen enough to make it edible. It was quite good! Next time I’ll take a picture with the new camera I got and share it all with you. Nate and I decided with a few substitutions we could make peanut butter cup ice cream, we might try that next. Other options would be fruit sorbets, frozen yogurt and sherbet.

Other interesting culinary things I got for Christmas… I got some appetizer spoons. They’re like tablespoons with a bent handle so they sit upright. I got them with a pretty glass platter, just like in this photo. Now I need to find a recipe that makes sense to be used with them. I think in the photo there are smoked salmon flowers or something. I was thinking it had to be kinda a messy appetizer that you’d want to use a spoon, but I think you can put just about anything in them. They look very classy on the pretty plate too. For instance, there’s a recipe for a bloody mary shrimp that has a sauce that goes on it, thus the use of a spoon for a serving spoon. The sauce has vodka, ketchup and hot sauce along with some other things. Maybe I could put something fancy in it like cucumber rounds topped with creme fresh and caviar, not that I’ve ever purchased caviar, but it sounds fancy. I’ll have to get better and have a dinner party. Okay, well that’s enough for now, more to come later.