Tuesday. It's spring!! It's been quite a few Tuesdays since I posted, but if one notices my weekly schedule, it's:
Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday- work
Tuesday, Friday- out doing random stuff
Wednesday- either out or stay at home practicing.
So usually, there will be something to update about after Friday, where I get a whole day to explore Sydney and pig out =)
Short entry today, because we finally tried a recipe that we've been wanting to try for a while now. It requires only four simple ingredients that can be bought at any supermarket.... from the book "4 Ingredients 2". It's actually quite a good book, with recipes that require only 4 ingredients or less. Though some recipes are really quite stupid (like- you get bread, put some cheese, ham, mayo, and wuah~ you get a sandwich!- kind of stupid) there are some recipes that are pretty interesting and worth trying out.
We tried the "Cookies and Cream ice cream"!
Ingredients:
200g cooking chocolate- we used dark
600mL cream
a tin of condensed milk (375g? I forgot, book is not with me at the moment)
Cookies. Usually people would use oreos, but -someone- ate all the oreos that we bought last time, so we had to make do with tim tams. Used half a packet of dark, half a packet of normal ones.
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Start by melting the dark chocolate in microwave, stirring every 30 seconds. Needed to do this quite a few times, but it's still easier than using a bain marie.
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While chocolate is cooling, combine cream and condensed milk and whip till it's thick. (Yea, my instructions are vague, but it's till the ribbon stage...) This is when you start looking at the cream and the condensed milk and thinking how much exercising you need to do to get rid of all that if you decide to consume the whole end product (try approximately a year's worth of walking).
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Add chocolate into the mixture and fold. Which we didn't, we just used the mixer and mixed the chocolate in. I don't get why people "fold"! The point is, you don't want to lose air from the cream right? So why not just use the mixer? 1- you don't lose the air that is already in the cream, and 2- you get even more air in it AND it mixes together faster! =D
Then we took a rolling pin to the tim tam, bashed the crap out of them, and folded that into the mixture (ok, we actually did fold that in because it would have sent bits of biscuits flying everywhere if we used the mixer for it).
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Into a container for freezing, and... leave for many hours before devouring.
Unfortunately for me, I had to leave at around 5pm to catch a bus home, so there wasn't enough freezing time- I think it had 3 hours to freeze or so, and it wasn't really done yet. No matter! It's such a simple recipe, I'll probably try it again. And go back on Friday to taste the end product. From what I tasted (even though it wasn't fully firm and frozen), it was good. Really good. It tasted like chocolate mousse with bits of chocolate biscuits in it...
On a random note:
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3 comments:
Your coin jar is nearly full? Cheater. =P The ice-cream still hasn't completely settled yet.. perhaps K is right and a blast freezer would be a good investment ^^; It tastes more like mousse at the moment
You're the cheater! And let's experiment with this recipe a little more... stock up on cream and cooking chocolate! we're not going back to that overpriced gas station woolworths!!! ><
See? Someone agrees about the blast freezer.
"Then we took a rolling pin to the tim tam, bashed the crap out of them"
Is that the technical term for it? I'd love to see that in the instructions of a recipe book :D
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