Come to the dark side, we have cookies..

.. and ice cream!

We have been vanilla ice-creamless since maybe March, and my mini coffee milkshake addiction has not made it easy. A few weeks back one of my teammates had this brilliant idea of making our own ice-cream, but the idea was pretty much where it ended.

So, step 2, call the mother to get a recipe or two, figure out we don't have half the stuff for recipe one, and recipe two needs cold ingredients, so chuck them in the fridge and leave it for another day. Then Sunday, maybe like a week after the recipe hunt, I rediscovered the now-seriously-cold cans in the fridge, and since I as bored and most of the guys were still asleep, I decided to try my hand at this whole ice cream making thing. (To be completely honest, before this I seriously didn't know you could make ice cream at home, you just get it at the shop! I always had this random idea that people used kelp or something for ice-cream. Who knows why, must be one of those childhood stories that just kinda stuck, weird!)

20 minutes, half a recipe, and a bunch of winging it later, and a bowl of what I am sure is going to be a flop gets put in the freezer. Apparently you have to keep breaking down the crystals, so it has to get stirred like every hour, else it doesn't work right. A few hours later, the stuff actually started looking like ice cream. By some freakish phenomena the volume decreased quite a bit from when I put it in the first time to when it was done - and no, everyone's tasting it every time it got stirred had nothing to do with it (thats my story and I'm sticking to it)!

After dinner I brought it out, and it turned out to be quite the little occasion! A bunch scurried off to find the perfect addition to their bowl of creamy goodness. Braam had his as a Cream Soda float, Jon and Johan had theirs with smarties, Jako and Vince had theirs plain, and offcourse mine was turned into a cup of yummy coffee milkshake.


Rule #32 - enjoy the little things!