The frozen Nord

[shewhomust]

Ice cream is not usually my choice of dessert, but somehow this holiday I seem to have eaten more of it than usual. Sometimes there wasn't much option: rising prices meant both that we were more likely to stick to the cheaper menus, and that those menus themselves were less exotic - the final course was often ice cream, or a choice between ice cream and coffee. Sometimes, though, the ice cream came in flavours that were hard to resist. I ate my share of vanilla, but I also ate a coupe of speculoos, pain d'épice and chicorée (spiced biscuits, gingerbread and - chicory, I think, though perhaps it should be endive). I don't remember what flavour accompanied durham_rambler's sugar tart, but I know it was a hard choice to make.

Other ice creams I ate were:

• mandarin, accompanying a very luscious chocolate dessert at the Cheval Blanc (perhaps I'll write about that later),


• coffee and vanilla in a 'coupe Irish coffee' with whiskey and coffee - if I were making this myself, I'd make sure the coffee was hot, but other than that it was my kind of pudding,


• mirabelle - also accompanied by a generous slug of alcohol,


• cinnamon, accompanying apple and almond tart,


• half of durham_rambler's nougatine,


• and a dinky little helping of raspberry sorbet as part of a dessert platter.

Comments

[cellio]

That sounds (and looks) wonderful. I'm fond of mandarin ice cream but don't find it often. (And also ginger, which I find even less often.)

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I don't eat ice cream much here, but when traveling in Europe I sure do. That photo looks nom.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Oh, geez, that all sounds wonderful.

::tummy rumbles::

[cinderberry.livejournal.com]

All of it sounds so incredibly tasty, particularly the mandarin. Also, the picture... ah, I can practically taste it.

[anef.livejournal.com]

When we were in Italy recently I found myself desperate for a coffee granita. Could I find one? No. Though at one meal we did have some fantastic fruit sorbets, all stuffed into the hollowed out shell of the fruit. Apple, pear, chestnut, walnut, fig, kiwi fruit, prickly pear...and the prickly pear sorbet was *amazing*.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Those all sound good (especially the inclusion of nuts among the fruit). When I was last in Italy I was beguiled by zuppa inglese ice cream.