Ice cream is the best! Thank you Ruth, for sharing your process with the ice cream maker. It's funny, I just found a recipe to make strawberry-banana ice cream, and I can use my food processor to mix it. You're inspiring me to try it this week. Hugs to you.
Thank you! Yes, Keitaro, it would be great to have some help! E are eating too much ice cream!🍦Thanks for signing up for my newsletter! I hope you guys are doing well!🤗
I have that same Cuisinart ice cream maker and love it. I make the chocolate ice cream from the included recipe booklet and it’s a family favorite. My favorite ice cream growing up was peppermint, from a diner near my grandparent’s house in Florida. I’m impressed by the range of your husband’s ice cream taste tests!
That chocolate ice cream is on my list also, Lisa! I still adore peppermint and hope to make that too. Unfortunately my husband’s love for ice cream knows no bounds, which turns out to be the bane of both our diets, especially on the road!
Years ago when our girls were small I used to make ice cream regularly and ended up with a sort of semi commercial monster of a machine. But I fell out of the habit and the machine is now languishing in the roof storage space. You’ve inspired me to drag it out again. They are so many more flavour options when you make it yourself and while it’s never going to be a healthy food, at least if you make it yourself you know what’s in it.
Thanks, Julia! I’m going to give it a rest at the request of my husband, who is trying to cut back on sweets, but I’m itching to experiment some more. If you do make some ice cream in your “monster of a machine,” I’d love to hear more about it.🍦🍨🤖
Glad you had fun with your ice cream maker, with great results. Mine sits way up on the top shelf until I’m ready to churn up another batch. (Gotta work for it!) Yum!
I imagine mine will probably be relegated to a dusty shelf once again in the near future as I’m getting complaints from my husband about sabotaging his best intentions to lose weight. (“Just say no” doesn’t work in our household!) But first I do want to try a few more experiments in frozen desserts. It is summer after all!😎
Looks sooo good! I lived in Studio City for a few years...dangerously close to Thifty on Ventura Blvd. I walked there and back so I could get an ice cream cone without feeling guilty.
I hold out hope that our country will normalize while I'm still alive and that the children in our families will be able to thrive as we did. God willing.
Thanks for your comment, Leslie. Unfortunately,, I never lived close enough to a Thrifty’s to earn my cone by walking there, but that never stopped me!
Amen to your hope for our country to normalize to serve the next generation and the ones after that. I wish it would happen in our lifetime, but I’m not sure about that. 🙏
Your ice cream looks delicious, Ruth, (love the picture you took, and love the maraschino Cherry 🍒) thanks for the shout out, so glad Rite Aid has found a buyer! xx
Thanks so much for the comment and the share, Jolene! So glad about the buyer for Thrifty IC too! Wish I could have visited the original factory in West Hollywood.
I am inspired by your post, Ruth! Gerhard loves ice cream and would be happy, I think, to play around with creating his own. I could replace the huge air fryer I bought during covid and almost never use for a nice, small ice cream maker.
Oh, Clarice, so happy to inspire you to make ice cream! I’m having a lot of fun with mine and hope to attempt more creative flavors and types (custard, sorbets, etc.) soon. If you or Gerhard make some, please let me know!
PS: I think an ice cream maker is far more satisfying than an air fryer!
Happy Fourth to you and Jeff! I loved your stories about ice cream and what you wrote about immigrants and Lady Liberty.
I too come from a family of immigrants and of course we know lots of immigrant workers, and I can relate to everything you wrote.
My mother, an immigrant, loved Thrifty Ice Cream, and whenever she visited we made a point of going to Thrifty so she could have some, and of course, I enjoyed it too!
At cooking school in Paris we made ice cream in a bucket machine with ice and salt like the one in your picture.
I have a huge Simac ice cream machine in the garage. It's too heavy for me to bring to the kitchen, and we don't make ice cream often enough, for this and other reasons--full freezer, trying to eat healthy, etc. We bought a small Cuisinart machine like the one in your picture but it turned out to have a missing part and the shop couldn't get it for us so we had to return it. I'm eager to clear space in the freezer and try making frozen yogurt or maybe a nutritious version of no-churn ice cream.
Thanks so much for sharing the story about your mother and her love of Thrifty Ice Cream. I’d love to hear more about your immigrant background. With all the writing, research and dining out you and Yakir do, you must have heard many tales worth telling of immigrant struggles and successes in this country. We should talk sometime soon!
How cool that you made ice cream in a bucket with ice in Paris! It’s still something I’d love to try (wish it could be in Paris!).
I know what you mean about having a full freezer. Mine is exploding. Every time I open it something falls out. “Couldn’t I have just one shelf just for me?” Jeff keeps asking. Adding an ice cream bowl definitely didn’t help! I’m hoping to come up with healthier versions that still taste good. The frozen yogurt I made was a little too tart. Still experimenting.
Thanks again for your comments, Faye. Have a great weekend. 😘
Homemade ice cream is great but super high in calories and fat - which is what makes it delicious! You don't actually need an ice cream machine if you don't want to mess with it. Just a container that you can put in your freezer. But then it's up to you to periodically stir it to get the correct texture and avoid ice crystal buildup. Lovey is being strong and has stopped buying ice cream as she wants to try and reduce a bit of weight. And so, being a good hubby, I've refrained from buying any as well. It would be too tempting to have it sitting there ...
I’ve read about making ice cream without a machine and might give that a try too. Lovey is completely correct in trying to avoid ice cream while losing weight, and you’re kind to be so supportive. I know my ice cream experiments have sabotaged any effort at a sane diet. Ditto, cookies, pies, etc. Too bad they all taste so good! Thanks for your comment, Crowden!
What a perfect Fourth of July newsletter! Growing up, we had the old-fashioned wooden manual hand-crank ice cream maker. We didn't make it very often because it was so much work, and most of the cranking fell to my dad. It is now in my attic, and we made it a couple of times when our son was little. You may have inspired me!
Thanks, Vicki! I was wishing I had one of those old-fashioned churns just to see if I could rectify my childhood mistake—and also because it might be fun! I hope you do retrieve the wooden hand-crank device from your attic and experiment with it. If you do, I’m sure I’ll read about it in a future blog! Happy cranking!🍨
I am so glad your ice cream turned out delicious! Thanks for including the bits on Thrifty Drugstores ice cream and our Mother of Exiles. I can't wait to find out which one is Jeff's favorite.
Thanks for the comment, Sean! Hoping to share Jeff’s ice cream pick soon and some exotic flavored variety of my own at our next gathering (marchpane or gooseberry, perhaps?). I’m impatiently awaiting the Thrifty scoop I ordered.
It’s surprising that someone hasn’t slipped a shroud over our Mother of Exiles. She’s a sad matriarch these days.😢
What a terrific read. I would like to suggest you check out David Lieberwitz "Scooped." I have used recipes from this book many times and they are terrific.
Ice cream is the best! Thank you Ruth, for sharing your process with the ice cream maker. It's funny, I just found a recipe to make strawberry-banana ice cream, and I can use my food processor to mix it. You're inspiring me to try it this week. Hugs to you.
I wonder you may need a big help to finish the ice cream you made. Just give us a call. We are always here to help lol.
Thank you! Yes, Keitaro, it would be great to have some help! E are eating too much ice cream!🍦Thanks for signing up for my newsletter! I hope you guys are doing well!🤗
I have that same Cuisinart ice cream maker and love it. I make the chocolate ice cream from the included recipe booklet and it’s a family favorite. My favorite ice cream growing up was peppermint, from a diner near my grandparent’s house in Florida. I’m impressed by the range of your husband’s ice cream taste tests!
That chocolate ice cream is on my list also, Lisa! I still adore peppermint and hope to make that too. Unfortunately my husband’s love for ice cream knows no bounds, which turns out to be the bane of both our diets, especially on the road!
Thrifty 5 cent ice cream cones in Agoura in the 80's. And a huge variety of flavors. Thank you for bringing up a great memory!
Thanks for adding your memories of Thrifty cones to the mix, Loren. I’m glad the ice cream will still be around, though sadly not those 5 cent cones!
Cool story, Ruth! That cuisinart sounds so much easier than the old hand crank ones.
Thanks, Amie!
Years ago when our girls were small I used to make ice cream regularly and ended up with a sort of semi commercial monster of a machine. But I fell out of the habit and the machine is now languishing in the roof storage space. You’ve inspired me to drag it out again. They are so many more flavour options when you make it yourself and while it’s never going to be a healthy food, at least if you make it yourself you know what’s in it.
Thanks, Julia! I’m going to give it a rest at the request of my husband, who is trying to cut back on sweets, but I’m itching to experiment some more. If you do make some ice cream in your “monster of a machine,” I’d love to hear more about it.🍦🍨🤖
Glad you had fun with your ice cream maker, with great results. Mine sits way up on the top shelf until I’m ready to churn up another batch. (Gotta work for it!) Yum!
I imagine mine will probably be relegated to a dusty shelf once again in the near future as I’m getting complaints from my husband about sabotaging his best intentions to lose weight. (“Just say no” doesn’t work in our household!) But first I do want to try a few more experiments in frozen desserts. It is summer after all!😎
Yes! It’s too tempting! Summertime…🎶🎶
“…and never ever give up on our democratic ideals and our country.” 🙏🏼
Amen, Kate!🤞
Looks sooo good! I lived in Studio City for a few years...dangerously close to Thifty on Ventura Blvd. I walked there and back so I could get an ice cream cone without feeling guilty.
I hold out hope that our country will normalize while I'm still alive and that the children in our families will be able to thrive as we did. God willing.
Thanks for your comment, Leslie. Unfortunately,, I never lived close enough to a Thrifty’s to earn my cone by walking there, but that never stopped me!
Amen to your hope for our country to normalize to serve the next generation and the ones after that. I wish it would happen in our lifetime, but I’m not sure about that. 🙏
Your ice cream looks delicious, Ruth, (love the picture you took, and love the maraschino Cherry 🍒) thanks for the shout out, so glad Rite Aid has found a buyer! xx
Thanks so much for the comment and the share, Jolene! So glad about the buyer for Thrifty IC too! Wish I could have visited the original factory in West Hollywood.
I am inspired by your post, Ruth! Gerhard loves ice cream and would be happy, I think, to play around with creating his own. I could replace the huge air fryer I bought during covid and almost never use for a nice, small ice cream maker.
Oh, Clarice, so happy to inspire you to make ice cream! I’m having a lot of fun with mine and hope to attempt more creative flavors and types (custard, sorbets, etc.) soon. If you or Gerhard make some, please let me know!
PS: I think an ice cream maker is far more satisfying than an air fryer!
Me too!
Hi Ruth,
Happy Fourth to you and Jeff! I loved your stories about ice cream and what you wrote about immigrants and Lady Liberty.
I too come from a family of immigrants and of course we know lots of immigrant workers, and I can relate to everything you wrote.
My mother, an immigrant, loved Thrifty Ice Cream, and whenever she visited we made a point of going to Thrifty so she could have some, and of course, I enjoyed it too!
At cooking school in Paris we made ice cream in a bucket machine with ice and salt like the one in your picture.
I have a huge Simac ice cream machine in the garage. It's too heavy for me to bring to the kitchen, and we don't make ice cream often enough, for this and other reasons--full freezer, trying to eat healthy, etc. We bought a small Cuisinart machine like the one in your picture but it turned out to have a missing part and the shop couldn't get it for us so we had to return it. I'm eager to clear space in the freezer and try making frozen yogurt or maybe a nutritious version of no-churn ice cream.
Thanks so much for sharing the story about your mother and her love of Thrifty Ice Cream. I’d love to hear more about your immigrant background. With all the writing, research and dining out you and Yakir do, you must have heard many tales worth telling of immigrant struggles and successes in this country. We should talk sometime soon!
How cool that you made ice cream in a bucket with ice in Paris! It’s still something I’d love to try (wish it could be in Paris!).
I know what you mean about having a full freezer. Mine is exploding. Every time I open it something falls out. “Couldn’t I have just one shelf just for me?” Jeff keeps asking. Adding an ice cream bowl definitely didn’t help! I’m hoping to come up with healthier versions that still taste good. The frozen yogurt I made was a little too tart. Still experimenting.
Thanks again for your comments, Faye. Have a great weekend. 😘
Homemade ice cream is great but super high in calories and fat - which is what makes it delicious! You don't actually need an ice cream machine if you don't want to mess with it. Just a container that you can put in your freezer. But then it's up to you to periodically stir it to get the correct texture and avoid ice crystal buildup. Lovey is being strong and has stopped buying ice cream as she wants to try and reduce a bit of weight. And so, being a good hubby, I've refrained from buying any as well. It would be too tempting to have it sitting there ...
I’ve read about making ice cream without a machine and might give that a try too. Lovey is completely correct in trying to avoid ice cream while losing weight, and you’re kind to be so supportive. I know my ice cream experiments have sabotaged any effort at a sane diet. Ditto, cookies, pies, etc. Too bad they all taste so good! Thanks for your comment, Crowden!
What a perfect Fourth of July newsletter! Growing up, we had the old-fashioned wooden manual hand-crank ice cream maker. We didn't make it very often because it was so much work, and most of the cranking fell to my dad. It is now in my attic, and we made it a couple of times when our son was little. You may have inspired me!
Thanks, Vicki! I was wishing I had one of those old-fashioned churns just to see if I could rectify my childhood mistake—and also because it might be fun! I hope you do retrieve the wooden hand-crank device from your attic and experiment with it. If you do, I’m sure I’ll read about it in a future blog! Happy cranking!🍨
I am so glad your ice cream turned out delicious! Thanks for including the bits on Thrifty Drugstores ice cream and our Mother of Exiles. I can't wait to find out which one is Jeff's favorite.
Thanks for the comment, Sean! Hoping to share Jeff’s ice cream pick soon and some exotic flavored variety of my own at our next gathering (marchpane or gooseberry, perhaps?). I’m impatiently awaiting the Thrifty scoop I ordered.
It’s surprising that someone hasn’t slipped a shroud over our Mother of Exiles. She’s a sad matriarch these days.😢
What a terrific read. I would like to suggest you check out David Lieberwitz "Scooped." I have used recipes from this book many times and they are terrific.
I’m a big fan of David Leibovitz’s recipes (and blog) and will definitely check out his book for ideas. Thanks, Jo!