Ice cream around the world (and at home)

Author: icecream

Horchata Ice Cream with Snickerdoodle Cookie

Horchata Ice Cream with Snickerdoodle Cookie

Living in the Mission neighborhood in San Francisco, horchata ice cream or ricanelas ice cream from Bi-Rite Creamery is a no brainer. But you see, my 31st flavor, the final ice cream flavor to be created in one year is dedicated to my number one […]

Roll Up Creamery & Cafe

Roll Up Creamery & Cafe

Instagram-ready? Absolutely. New York Times reported on this phenomenon spreading throughout the foodie clusters. What matters first is how it looks. Then second, the bonus is well how great it tastes. Their soft opening was just last week where those instagrammers can watch purveyors pour […]

Green Tea Asian Pear Sorbet

Green Tea Asian Pear Sorbet

“Asian pears!” my friend’s boyfriend declared. While pondering what produce to buy for a flavor for a belated Chinese New Year dinner, I spotted my friend and her boyfriend roaming through the farmers market. I described my predicament. An Asian flavor that used local produce. […]

Blood Orange Sorbet

Blood Orange Sorbet

Blood oranges, if they were only in season during Halloween, would have been perfect for my annual zombie book club meeting. Instead, I chose pomegranates to represent the bloodiness of that time of the year. But appropriately, a (belated) anti-Valentine’s day potluck theme for my […]

Cookiebar Creamery Oakland

Cookiebar Creamery Oakland

“A cookie must melt at the same rate as the ice cream,” an ice cream maker described early in my Ice Cream Travel Guide journey. From that moment, I learned why I hesitated at the proliferation of ice cream sandwiches between cookies. I had loved […]

Celery Ice Cream with Rum-Plumped Raisins and Peanut Butter Swirl

Celery Ice Cream with Rum-Plumped Raisins and Peanut Butter Swirl

Celery ice cream? It got me thinking. Celery? Green. Usually eaten raw. Almost tasteless, but with a slight herbaceous flavor. Chopped up into small bits for salads to add crunch. Usually great sliced and combined with Asian stir-fry noodles. The latter is my most prominent […]

Eucalyptus Ice Cream

Eucalyptus Ice Cream

The challenge: Bring something with a foraged ingredient. My answer: Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus ice cream! Large sweeping decks, graced with fallen leaves from tall eucalyptus trees, filled the backyard of a house in San Pablo. My parents had nicknamed this house, “Silver house” for the Silver […]

Ghirardelli Chocolate Market Street San Francisco

Ghirardelli Chocolate Market Street San Francisco

An experience. That’s what Ghirardelli is to me. For many years, San Francisco was a city that barely held any allure for me. Growing up in the suburbs, the city was “the place where my mom enjoyed shopping”. But somehow in college, I had discovered […]

Kiwi Lime Sorbet

Kiwi Lime Sorbet

I found kiwis on sale. Five for $1! In the middle of winter. In January. A summer fruit…on sale? Why? And really the final question…why not? At Evergreen Super Market (one of my favorite markets in my ‘hood), I purchased two bags of those brown […]

Dulce de Leche Granizado Ice Cream

Dulce de Leche Granizado Ice Cream

Having studied Spanish for over 6 years, I knew what dulce de leche meant. Sweet. Sugar. Ice cream. The literal translation is sweet of milk. I love this kind of sweet. As an ice cream maker pointed out, “nearly every ice cream shop has some […]