Comments on: Food Blog: July is National Ice Cream Month

By: Betty Crocked

Betty Crocked — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 22:22:37 +0000

CoCo,
You’re just a chip off the old block.

Ice cream doesn’t taste as good any more because it’s too chemical.

Flavors that I’ve liked in the past are butterscotch fudge (vanilla ice cream with ribbons of butterscotch going through it) cookie dough ice cream (the first I tasted was Ben & Jerry’s a long time ago).

When I lived in Venice, Calif. there used to be Robin Rose and Ms. Rose made a sinful chocolate raspberry which I think she called Chocolate Chambord. I think all her flavors were spiked with liqueurs. She had Bailey’s Irish Cream ice cream and Kaluha ice cream and I forget what else.

By: Coco Carmichael

Coco Carmichael — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:47:22 +0000

Here in Ohio, we have a regional ice cream store called “Graeters” (www.graeters.com) that has wonderful premium ice cream.

I personally love their chocolate chip flavors which come with BIG candy-bar sized chunks of dark bittersweet chocolate.

They have Chocolate Chip, Coconut Chip, Cookie Dough Chip, Double Chocolate Chip, Mint Chocolate Chip, Mocha Chocolate Chip,
Peanut Butter Chip, and Toffee Chip.

My husband and I are perfectly suited because he is not afraid to try and mix different flavors in the same bowl. I especially recommend coconut chip and black cherry. What an adventure!

By: Mary Johnson

Mary Johnson — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:40:30 +0000

My fondest ice cream memory has to do with Girl Scouts. At summer camp we made homemade vanilla ice cream the old fashioned way — with a wooden ice cream churn where each girl took a turn turning the handle and adding salt and ice.

I fondly remember getting tastes of salt mixed in with the ice cream; tasting the creamy rich vanilla — so cold that it gave me “brain freezes”. Yes. we’d make other flavors, but nothing was as good as vanilla.