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What's Your Take on Cake Ice Cream?
I tried this and just didn't care for the taste. It really seemed overly sweet, with an oddly artificial taste. I was disappointed as I had thought it might be yummy. I love the Americone dream flavor. The chocolaty crunch and the ice cream are really good. Ben & Jerry's used to have a flavor called Di's Candy drawer but I can't find it anymore, it was really good also.
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The one thing I want to learn is (?)
I would take all manner of bread baking classes. Ollie Sommers would be my choice of a teacher.
What's Your Take on Cake Ice Cream?
I tried this and just didn't care for the taste. It really seemed overly sweet, with an oddly artificial taste. I was disappointed as I had thought it might be yummy. I love the Americone dream flavor. The chocolaty crunch and the ice cream are really good. Ben & Jerry's used to have a flavor called Di's Candy drawer but I can't find it anymore, it was really good also.
What's Your Take on Cake Ice Cream?
Reading these comments has been interesting. When it's all said and done, it comes down to personal preference. I love Cold Stone’s Cake batter ice cream with extra cookie dough mixed in. You’re right a70wilson that is key! So far, nothing in a local grocery store has come close to replicate the taste. I’m scared to try Ben & Jerry’s version.. Too many nay sayers. My research continues!
What's Your Take on Cake Ice Cream?
I saw this in the ice cream section at the local market but haven't had the nerve to buy it. I do heartily wish they would bring back Half-and-Half, a swirl of dark chocolate ice cream and stout ice cream. Now THAT was some smooth "comforting" after a ragged week.
What's Your Take on Cake Ice Cream?
I have not had this, but I tried Maggie Moos cake batter ice cream and loved it! I've seen cake batter flavored ice creams at the store, but they always have stuff added in. I DON'T want frosting, sprinkles, or chunks, just the creamy-smooth sensation of licking the bowl. Sadly, Maggie Moos closed down all stores in the area, so I can't get it anymore.
What's Your Take on Cake Ice Cream?
I hate the cake batter flavor...too sweet and artificial, as everyone else seems to think. And I'm mad at B&J's...my favorite flavor (Coconut Almond Fudge Chip) can only be had at the scoop shops now, not in the grocery store. I hope it's not going the way of the dinosaur...
The one thing I want to learn is (?)
amazingly crusty/chewy/light artisan bread (which is impossible to find where I live!)... and I don't really know who I would want to teach me... anyone willing to take the time, I suppose?!
The one thing I want to learn is (?)
I'd love to know how to get into being a food critic. I don't think I could learn how to be a good one from anyone - since a lot of the critics out there seem so damn self absorbed and completely one sided. I love to dine out and have been a "foodie" since before foodtv hit the airwaves and even taught us that word.
That would be an incredible thing to do.
The one thing I want to learn is (?)
Just one thing?! Geez.
Right now, I'm teaching myself how to manipulate humidity when I make bread to produce the crust I want. It's an interesting experiment.
I also keep saying that Any Day Now I'm going to start on candy-making, particularly replicating my great-aunt's peanut brittle. It took me 10 years to replicate my grandmother's biscuits, but I'm hoping I can accomplish it in 5 years this time. I kind of wish I'd started on this before her Alzheimer's got bad. =/
I also wish I had better knife skills - I'm good in the kitchen, but I'm no pro; and plating skills. I also wouldn't mind learning more about the theories behind cooking (mother sauces, etc) and perfecting my craft. I guess what I'm saying - if the world were my oyster and I had the time, money, and health to do it, I'd enroll in the CIA. Alas, it's not to be, so I do what I can at home to learn all I can.
The one thing I want to learn is (?)
They offer a class at LA Burdick's chocolates in Walpole, NH on how to make chocolates and all the steps that go along with it. It is a week-long class, I believe. I live only a little over an hour away. But if I remember correctly, the class is over $800. Gosh, I would LOVE to take that class.
Oh, and I'd love to learn some bread baking too. :)
The one thing I want to learn is (?)
i would love to learn food photography,
i always tried to take pictures of the food i make, but the pictures alway weren't as good as the food
The one thing I want to learn is (?)
In cooking: How to temper chocolate so well, I can make chocolates.
In life: To live with complete love, peace and joy.
The one thing I want to learn is (?)
Barring that, I would also like to learn how to decorate cakes. I tried once and, though delicious, it was not a showstopper.
The one thing I want to learn is (?)
As a current law student, I'd like to learn how to work for the safety and sustainability of our food supply (domestically and globally) and how to ensure that irresponsible companies are held accountable.
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How to poach the perfect, beautfiul egg
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I'd like to learn about foraging. I'd particularly like to be able to identify edible mushrooms. In Norway everyone seems fairly confident about picking them (there are lots of chanterelles), but I never have done and would love to get stuck in.
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How to stop eating when I'm full. (Any experts out there...? Hmm.)
Also how to cook like the old Ukrainian ladies at my church. No cookbooks, no recipes....just their memory and their skill. Pierogies, borscht....and the breads and tortes....oh gosh. Gradually they've been showing me things, but I swear it's an innate gift.
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I'd be grateful for any mundane little thing she'd teach me if I could have just one whole day alone in a kitchen with my hero, Julia Child.
Sigh.
The one thing I want to learn is (?)
I have a lot to learn so it was hard for me to pinpoint one thing in particular. So...based on my mood today, I would say I want to learn to make puff pastry. I read from all the experts that it is actually easy but haven't been able to bring myself to take the plunge. It is often either too humid or too warm/hot where I live and I don't currently have a lot of counter space or an island to roll up my sleeves and really spread everything out. (I'm envisioning the cat powdered with flour, twining around my legs!) I don't know who my chosen expert would be. As long as it's not Pepperidge Farm...LOL
Then again, I'd love to become a fantastic cake decorator. Have you looked at wedding cakes lately? Wow! They are works of art. It would be hard to choose one person to teach me but I do admire the cakes at Sweet Melissa's in NYC. To be a fly on the wall. Well, maybe not...potential health code violation plus untimely death at the hands of a fly swatter.
The one thing I want to learn is (?)
I think I read a Beatrice Potter story about dormice when I was a kid and I always wanted one for a pet. Oh god, Karen, now I have to go rock myself in a corner because that dish looked really good, but then there's that cute little rodent's big watery eyes looking at me...Ach, that old dilemma, if it's cute, is it food?
The one thing I want to learn is (?)
Here's mine for today (it changes daily): I'd like to learn how to catch a bear and some dormice then continue on till they're well cooked and delicious. :)
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That's not maudlin, psychsarah.
What was different about them from other pickles? What flavor, or what texture? Maybe someone here might have an idea of how to get close to her recipe.
I had a similar thing happen with pickles - my grandmother's Maine Mustard Pickles, and finally - between a couple of sources - was able to reconstruct the recipe.
The one thing I want to learn is (?)
Not to get too maudlin, but I would love to go back in time and actually learn how to make the pickles my Nana made. In my family we call them "Nana pickles" and they are unlike any other pickle I've ever had. I really ought to know how to carry on the tradition.
The one thing I want to learn is (?)
annie1963, you've got me stumped already, at the first response! :)
Who is Ollie Sommers? (And where is Ollie Sommers too?)
What's Your Take on Cake Ice Cream?
I recently tried B & J's cake batter flavor and I LOVED it. I then bought it again and loved it at first, but a few spoons later it started to make me feel sick and I didn't finish it. I don't know why the inital love of it faded so fast, but I think it comes down to it being too sweet and too authentic to cake batter - while that should be a good thing, but realistically, who eats the whole bowl of batter? You lick the beaters and the remains of the bowl, not the whole thing~!
I would love to try an ice cream with cake pieces, that sounds great.
What's Your Take on Cake Ice Cream?
Haven't tried the Ben & Jerry's flavor, but have had mixed feelings about the ones out in ice cream shops. Some are quite tasty--I think it's more a mood. Sometimes I want a fine, subtle gelato and sometimes I want that ooey-gooey-way-too-much-junk-in-it feel of ice cream. When I want B&J, I'm usually in the latter mood.
One thing I have really mixed feelings about is cheesecake flavored ice cream. I've only had the Cold Stone version, which I thought was tasty but off putting. Thoughts?
What's Your Take on Cake Ice Cream?
Haven't tried the cake batter ice cream - probably won't.
I miss B & J's Rainforest Crunch flavor. It was so good, I'm surprised that they discontinued it.
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I would take all manner of bread baking classes. Ollie Sommers would be my choice of a teacher.