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MimicCreme
to buy. In the long run, I bought The Ultimate Ice Cream Book by Bruce Weinstein. I think I made a chocolate ice cream recipe from there. I used the “Philadelphia-style” recipe, which is the non-cooked one. Most ice...
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Ice cream texture and thawing, note to mzn - long
I read that gelato has 3-5% overrun in Bruce Weinstein's Ultimate Frozen Dessert Book. This is the follow up to the one on ice cream and focuses mainly on gelati and other variations on ice cream. In fact, IIRC, the book says...
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Homemade ice cream recipes?
Bruce Weinstein's book The Ultimate Ice Cream Book has an amazing vanilla bean – sadly I’m useless in getting you the recipe – it’s packed up with the rest of my kitchen but maybe someone else has it....
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Best ice cream cookbook?
We have both the Ben and Jerry’s and Bruce Weingarten’s Ultimate Ice Cream cookbooks. Besides the occasional Cherry Garcia (which we altered!) the Ben and Jerry’s gathers dust. The Ultimate Ice Cream book is so...
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what cooking classes do you want to take?
I like hands-on classes and have taken four of these at Ramekins cooking school in Sonoma, CA. —Sausage making with Bruce Aidells. This was a lot of fun and quite informative. Each group made 3 different types of sausage...
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The Best Combination of Two Distinct Flavors
If you like Creamsicles or an Orange Julius and have an ice cream maker, I enthusiastically endorse the following (paraphrased) recipe for Orange Julius Sherbet from “The Ultimate Frozen Dessert Book” by Bruce...
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Need recs for chicago dinners near Chicago Embassy Suites Downtown Lakefront
Let’s start with the recommendation for the two of you. North Pond is one of our best contemporary American restaurants, owned/run by James Beard nominated Chef Bruce Sherman. What makes it unique is its location in the...
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Cookbooks for newlyweds first time out of home?
“Cooking for Two: 120 recipes for every day and those special nights” by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough. I haven’t actually cooked from it, but it has basics like mac & cheese and turkey tetrazini as well...
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The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz
I think you mean the ultimate ice cream book by Bruce Weinstein. I flipped through it at my bookshop and didn’t care for it either. I thought about the Liddell (sp?) book but passed on that too. I usually like to test drive...
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Philadelphia-style (eggless, uncooked) peach ice cream report
by Bruce Weinstein (who i’ve come to decide is beyond lame, but that’s another storey). Thank God I checked it out of library instead of buying, because I didn’t like it much. I would be curious about a...
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Visiting Chicago and Need Ideas for Fish Lover
Oceanique (Mark Grosz), one sixtyblue (Martial Noguier), and North Pond (Bruce Sherman) have all been around with their current chefs for at least five years; as a result, none are “hot” in the sense of being new, but...
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what's for dinner Part V?
with a little Cointreau and fresh mint thrown in (from The Ultimate Frozen Dessert Book by Bruce Weinstein). I cannot wait to spin this up tomorrow! I had to stick a spoon in to taste before chilling it and it is already FAB! ;)...
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KOSHER SUBWAY
. the manager said they are supposed to change their gloves between making a tuna hero and making a meat hero. Great assembly line production technique. I will return. bruce in belle Harbor
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What's Your Secret Ingredient?
I’m curious to know if other people have go-to ingredients they use to add a little extra flavor dimension to food. Some examples: nutmeg in creamy sauces or with various vegetables, lemon juice in or on almost anything, a...
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What foods have traveled in your carry-on?
Chicken salad sandwich from the Carnegie Deli; Flatbread crackers w/ Humus, Baba & that delicious spread with small fish roe in it. Stilton cheese on dinner rolls Pre 9/11: a nice David Bruce Pettite Syrah in a bicycle water...
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