Roast Lamb :)

My dinner for the night, very om nom nom. :D I cooked a roast lamb for myself, since Frosty doesn't really eat lamb.. I think there's enough leftovers to do me for lunch for the next 2 weeks!
I miss the Sunday roasts we used to have at Mum & Dads.. They were always epic. And I miss the awesome gravy Dad would make...  :)

Chocolate icecream

I'd like to point out that you don't need a machine to make icecream, just whip the mixture up, pour it into a freezeable tub, pop it into the freezer and mix it by hand every hour to break up the crystals etc. Hard work but it's still nice end result. :)

Anywho, here's a simple chocolate icecream recipe I tried today, which came with my machine.
This made 1lt, so next time I am doubling the ingredients to get a decent 2lt amount. One just isn't enough in this house!

1 cup unsweetend cocoa powder
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cups full cream milk
3 1/4 cup Double cream
1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Place the cocoa and sugars in a mixing bowl, stir to combine. Add the milk and whisk to combine until the cocoa and sugar has dissolved. Stir in the cream and vanilla.
Turn the machine on and pour mixture in.
Transfer to a freezeable container when done, to firm up some more. I found it quite soft, but I think my bowl wasn't completely frozen. (I'm impatient!) :)

This icecream is very decadent.

I scream you scream we all scream for Ice Cream!

Very impressed with my new toy so far.. Have just made my 2nd batch of icecream and now waiting very impatiently for it to set firmer in the freezer!
The first flavour Frosty insisted on (me) making.. was Butterscotch, with honeycomb bits. I made it lastnight, and I'm guessing it was just that good that when I'd gotten up this morning, it vanished sometime throughout the night...
This is the recipe I used, which I found online. Pretty simple :)
This recipe only  makes 900mls, so next time I'm going double the ingredients..


1 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon vanilla essance
1 1/2 cup Pouring cream (Pauls Pure Cream I think it's called)
2 cups Light cream (equates to 1x300ml pot of thickened Light Cooking cream is what I found)
6 large egg yolks - lightly beaten. (Don't waste those egg whites either! Keep them for a Pav or meringue for lemon meringue pie!)

Prep time!
In a small saucepan on medium to low heat, stir the brown sugar, butter and vanilla until smooth, melted and a few bubbles. Then whisk in 1/2 cup pouring cream, until smooth. Remove from the heat and set aside.

In another saucepan on medium to high heat, combine the 1 cup pouring cream and the light cream and bring to a gentle simmer. Whisk half of the cream mixture into the bowl of egg yolks slowly, whisking while you pour. Then pour the egg cream mixture to the remaining saucepan of cream. Stir until mixture is thickened slightly then remove from the heat.

Pour through a fine strainer (or colander in my case!) into a clean large bowl and whisk in the butterscotch mixture. Chill for a few hours or over night until completely cold.

With your icecream machine all ready to go, dump it in and watch it turn into ice cream. 5 minutes towards the end of the icecream process, add some chopped honeycomb/crunchie bars :)

God I could just eat this as is!!

After a few hours in the deep freeze.

Happy birthday to me...

So last week was my birthday, I am now 28.. I still have no intentions of acting my age. :P
 An icecream machine as my gift has been placed on order, and hopefully will arrive sometime this week! /happydance
So many icecream flavours to make...