No tengo tiempo! US Icecreams
Sorry dudes. I have tried heaps of icecream but I haven't ever gotten around to writing about them. Hard to do when travelling! But here is a few more from the US:
a) Cold Slate icecream. A chain all over the US, but I tried it in Miami. Much like the Cold Rock (sim name eh) in Australia where you choose flavours and then they chop up stuff to put inside (like brownies etc). I was going to try apple pie - cream icecream with apple and pie crust chopped in. But this girl in line was talking up the mint with brownie and cookie crumble so I HAD to do that. Man the medium here is massive, and her combination was fantastic!
b) Can't remember the name, but they had a whole bunch of bizarre flavours. I went peanut butter (not wierd in the US, but it is in Oz), green tea and some other one which was like a sorbet mush with fruit and some sort of herb (looked like poppies). The green tea tasted like green tea, but the herb thing was bizarre, kinda like some watery fruit. Tasted great though with the cherry sauce on top (as the guy suggested)
c) This was like a bizarre bubble tea place (ok so it aint icecream) where you could get lots of flavoured juices and teas. I saw on the menu "Egg and honey juice" so I was like man I gotta try that, especially since it seems impossible. THen I see the chick out the back working out the whites of the eggs with her hands whilst preparing my drink. I was scared. But at the end it just tasted like a fruit smoothy. apparently they added fruit to it
d) At the farmers market this Peruvian chocolateer also sold gelato. I had the gelato with 75% cocoa peruvian chocolate, with choc bits and chilli. That was absolutely fantastic. The gelato consistency is nice so you just get a slight burn/hint of chili when you swallow. And the chocolate is rich but cos it's in gelato form not so creamy and overly intense. Man I wish I could bring that stuff home with me
e) Garlic icecream at The Stinking Rose. THis was way expensive and we went out of our way to try it. I was disappointed. There was a slight hint of a garlic aftertaste, but basically tasted like vanilla. Probably an accurate description is to have a spoon of vanilla with an unwashed spoon used in cooking something with garlic. A hint but nothing strong. And they put a caramel sauce on it which overpowered the garlic. But the restaraunt was totally funky, pornstar and decked out that it was worth going to!
a) Cold Slate icecream. A chain all over the US, but I tried it in Miami. Much like the Cold Rock (sim name eh) in Australia where you choose flavours and then they chop up stuff to put inside (like brownies etc). I was going to try apple pie - cream icecream with apple and pie crust chopped in. But this girl in line was talking up the mint with brownie and cookie crumble so I HAD to do that. Man the medium here is massive, and her combination was fantastic!
b) Can't remember the name, but they had a whole bunch of bizarre flavours. I went peanut butter (not wierd in the US, but it is in Oz), green tea and some other one which was like a sorbet mush with fruit and some sort of herb (looked like poppies). The green tea tasted like green tea, but the herb thing was bizarre, kinda like some watery fruit. Tasted great though with the cherry sauce on top (as the guy suggested)
c) This was like a bizarre bubble tea place (ok so it aint icecream) where you could get lots of flavoured juices and teas. I saw on the menu "Egg and honey juice" so I was like man I gotta try that, especially since it seems impossible. THen I see the chick out the back working out the whites of the eggs with her hands whilst preparing my drink. I was scared. But at the end it just tasted like a fruit smoothy. apparently they added fruit to it
d) At the farmers market this Peruvian chocolateer also sold gelato. I had the gelato with 75% cocoa peruvian chocolate, with choc bits and chilli. That was absolutely fantastic. The gelato consistency is nice so you just get a slight burn/hint of chili when you swallow. And the chocolate is rich but cos it's in gelato form not so creamy and overly intense. Man I wish I could bring that stuff home with me
e) Garlic icecream at The Stinking Rose. THis was way expensive and we went out of our way to try it. I was disappointed. There was a slight hint of a garlic aftertaste, but basically tasted like vanilla. Probably an accurate description is to have a spoon of vanilla with an unwashed spoon used in cooking something with garlic. A hint but nothing strong. And they put a caramel sauce on it which overpowered the garlic. But the restaraunt was totally funky, pornstar and decked out that it was worth going to!