Beating the Winter Blues & Cabin Fever...# 2

Ohh Breyers is wonderful, I have to look up Turkey Hill, I don't think they sell it around here...

Turkey Hill is made in PA
I LOVE ice cream but I do care what they put in it, don't know why they have to load it with crap that's going to kill us or give us cancer

Yeah, just leave all that healthy fat and sugar!! ^_^

Yeah, exactly...everything in moderation...naturally

I remember the last time I drank a quart of fresh milk from the farm - untouched

Mac Namara's Dairy chocolate milk....those of you in NH who can get it, it's the best in the world!

Jen you should get that ice cream maker ball for your kids... they toss it around and make the ice cream

http://www.amazon.com/Play-Freeze-Cream-Maker-Blue/dp/B002J8ZZII

The ice cream ball looked great on TV; always wondered if it worked well.

Alton Brown had it on a show... looked good to me

looks like it has mixed reviews

I tend to trust Alton Brown; I think he and his team test everything out, sort of like "Mythbusters" on Discovery Channel.

With those gadgets, a person has to follow exacting instructions for temperatures of ingredients, amount of physical (not emotional !!!) agitation, etc.


(edi:t for clumsy writing; still cursed after all these decades!)

This message was edited Feb 9, 2011 12:51 PM

that might have been the show BA... good memory!!

Been baking to keep the house warm, made pumpkin bread.....
10 mini loafs
2 med. loafs
1 large loaf

YUMMM

and ....
1 dozen Maine blueberry muffins
1 dozen Orange-Cranberry=Nut muffins

This is on it's way to N.J. for a buddy who's had a rough couple of weeks at work. ^_^

BA - you might be lactose intolerant????

MMMM - peppermint ice cream is my biggest temptation...other flavors don't tempt me very much. Homemade is awesome! Silver Ranch peppermint is way too dangerous for me! (That's a place not too far from Bill and pretty close to Songs of Joy in NH). VERY dangerous place.

wwwwwwooooooooo hhhhhhhooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

You're gooooooood, Celeste!!! Oh yeah, you're realllllllly goooooood!! lol

she is the best!!!

We all know that, don't we???? None better!

oh man Celeste those look great!

It's official --- we all decend on pixie's place like locusts for all her homemade baked goods; it's B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Buttuh)!

Peppermint ice cream, my favorite, is available only around Thanksgiving to Christmas at my local supermarkets, produced by Friendly's. I always lay in a supply, it's best with hot chocolate fudge topping.

We have a local dairy that makes holiday specialties.
Rum Raisin on hot Apple pie.Maybe a drizzle of Caramel sauce too.

Thank you guys! When I finally get to host an R.U. I promise you'll get homemade baked Maine goods!

BTW, there is a place not far from me that makes their own homemade ice cream with fresh ingredients. Maine Bluebrries is one of them!

This message was edited Feb 10, 2011 6:46 AM

I have Denville Dairy as well.. all homemade .. and it rocks!!

I love ice cream!

Finally we will be getting a homemade- fresh- from- the- dairy place this summer....Arethusa Farms, a dairy in the next town to the north, is opening a place to sell their products, including yogurt & ice cream. Now if I could only influence them on their choice of flavors.....Pixie, you are an angel....those muffins look scrumptious!

Wish you could get a whiff of my porch right now. The tangerine is in bloom and the fragrance is filling the entire porch!!

Your killin me.

Oh, nice. Rub it in, Victor.

So why isn't my lemon blooming? Not fair!

If you dont have a lemon or tangerine tree go to the store and buy the fruit. Peel it and take the peeling and squeeze it on a hot wood stove. Instant insanity.

Bottle that scent Victor and send it around.
We have a great local dairy too that has a cute ice cream store about 10 miles from the actual dairy. Wonderful ice cream and very inexpensive. You should see the line on Sunday mornings at the dairy, every local gets their milk and bread there

mmmmmmmmm, peppermint ice cream with hot fudge sauce....mmmmmmm!!

Funny you should say that, Victor - all of our citrus trees are budding right now. We have a new tangelo, a ruby red grapefruit, tangerine, Valencia, 2 Meyer lemons (loaded) and an Ortanique. I saw the yard guy put his head back and take a big sniff this morning.

Tangelo fragrance (and other wonderous aromas from nature)....one of the few graces of this planet that makes the man-made horrors (like war) less painful.

(Am I being too political if I mention "testosterone poisoning of society"?)

Now I remember my grandparents not being able to keep up with changing society and disaproving of the way things were going.
I feel the same way now . It must be part of growing old.
The familiar things are the sweetest and not expensive or beyond reach.

Maybe it's not part of growing older...but growing smarter !!!

After a person witnesses the same ugly mistakes that humanity makes, over and over, it not only is sad, but it becomes tedious.

I don't mean to grind the axe, but 95% of the misery in all societies is caused by males between the ages of 12 and 28.

Famous old saying:

"The cure for violence is men who achieve age 30; they lose their taste for fighting."

Probaby true for most crime, but definitely not for wars, terror, corruption, etc. Leaders are rarely ever that young.

It seems to me lately that the ones who get us in these messes are the ones who have never been in the armed forces.