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

[cinderberry.livejournal.com]

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