Remember this? It's coming back soon now that the weather's threatening to be okay again. The blog's coming back to life along with it. This
silly post about Star Wars ends with a bit that's relevant:
Get ready to welcome this weird shit back into your lives, everybody. Ice cream nonsense is coming back soon too, SOON AS IT STOPS HAILING IN MU'FUCKIN SPRINGTIME, and I've got a hell of a backlog, but there's one project I've been wanting to get to since I heard about Thomas Keller's tobacco and coffee custard he made for Tony Bourdain. Yes my sons, it's pipe tobacco ice cream.
After that I'll get to the backlog. I think the one that's been waiting to be made longest is "chinese food ice cream," which I believe is meant to include soy sauce and scallions.
Finally, I never did a proper write-up on the crunk juice ice cream. I brought it to a party, and only one person really liked it, the rest of us agreed that it was too weird to be very good. But nobody could agree on why. Some said too cognacful, some said too red bull-y and hardly any cognac, but I think the issue was that it just was not nearly sweet enough. Enough sugar can bring harmony to these two components, I'm sure of it. I can't bring myself to adhere to the spirit of Crunk Juice though, which is: rappers want to seem cool by drinking expensive liquor, but don't actually like the taste of it, so they kill it with Red Bull. I want to taste cognac in this. Might have to flame a portion, get the alcohol out, that way it'll be properly mellow but still taste right.
