"Ice cream cravings are not to be taken lightly."

Although it has been a very cool summer I am still in the mood for ice cream. (Not that my ice cream mood has anything to do with the seasons, weather or climate.) I have thought about bringing my ice cream maker to work (with pre-chilled ice cream custard) and making ice cream for everyone. It is a good plan in theory. but I don't feel like the follow through on the weekends or evenings. But if I ever do the ice cream, gelato and couple other wonderful summertime dessert options are in the running.

All can be found at epicurious.com.

1. Frozen Lemon Gingersnap Pie
2. Honey and Thyme Ice Cream with Candied Thyme
3. Lemon and Amaretti Semifreddo with Raspberry Sauce
4. Zabaglione Gelato

(title quote by Betsy Cañas Garmon)

i scream

Today is National Ice Cream Day, finally a seemingly meaningless holiday that I can get behind. I had a mini breakdown in the midst of my very important holiday preparations when I visited my local grocery store to find my new favorite ice cream flavor (that I purchased from this same store), Haagen-Dazs Carmelized Pear and Toasted Pecan. Words cannot capture how wonderful this flavor is and with one of the named ingredients being a fruit my children won't touch it, leaving it all for me to enjoy at my leisure. But, for some reason I couldn't find a pint at it's assigned spot or anywhere in the freezer section. I don't understand. This is surely a signal of the decline of western civilization as we know it. So, I stormed home and went to the Haagen-Dazs website where I performed a search for my favorite flavor of ice cream. (They can tell you what store in your area has the flavor that you are searching for). After an extensive search there isn't a spoonful in a 10 mile radius. (HD did suggest other flavors that I might like.) There is hope, a shipment of my favorite flavor was delivered to three stores near my office building. Also, to avoid future traumatic events HD will notification emails when shipments of my favored flavor are recieved at stores in my area.

If I am able to pull myself together I can go to Milk in the city (Los Angeles) and get a free scoop, in a cone or cup, if I say "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream". That is a little too much carrying on and attention than I am willing to go through for one scoop. I might just wait to complete my quest after work on Monday and quietly enjoy my treasure in the privacy of my home.