Strawberry Ice Cream

strawberry ice cream video recipe – scroll down for printable recipe We had one of those salt-cooled, hand-cranked ice cream makers when I was a kid. My brother and I would take turns sitting outside on the porch, adding ice and salt and of course, cranking it with our puny kid muscles. Most often, we’d…

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Maple Frozen Yogurt Recipe

About a month ago, maybe a little longer, I got a care package in the mail from a couple in Vermont, Randy and Merrilou. I’ve never met this couple. They only know me through the show. They took it upon themselves to send me a Vermont care package, just because. It was extremely humbling. In…

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Grape Ice Cream

grape ice cream

This is an ancient family recipe that was passed down from my great-grandma to my grandma to my dad to me and now to you. Don’t tell anyone I broke the blood-chain. I remember making this in our old rock-salt, hand-cranked ice cream bucket on the porch. It’s really fun to have a hand-cranked ice…

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The History of Labor Day and Ice Cream Sandwiches

Labor Day is almost here and that means only one thing: No Work! (Unless you work at Wal-Mart and/or the Emergency Room, then you probably do have to work and in that case, thanks for still letting us purchase your wares and stitching our heads back together after we all fall onto barbecue forks.) But…

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