Peach Ice Cream is one of my favorite ice cream flavors, so I was super-excited to make it as the book-inspired recipe for The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. Until I remembered I had to photograph it. *facepalm* If you're a food blogger, you feel my pain. If you're not, you can go here and read about why photographing ice cream is my least favorite thing to do. But here's the good news, Tartlets: you don't have to photograph...
Nothing says “Hello, Summer” like Citrus Breeze Ice Cream. Confession: I've wanted to do an ice cream riff on the ever-popular Man Catcher Cake for awhile; its subtle hints of orange, lemon, and vanilla make everyone scrape their dessert plates and ask for seconds. One day, I decided that the cake flavors would be fantastic in frozen dessert form. (Spoiler: I was right). However, I didn’t have a book to pair with this culinary brain child,...
You know what’s really hard to take pictures of, you guys? ICE CREAM. I’ve made ice cream before for the blog, and I think I managed to pull off some pretty good photos. This time, however, I got cocky, and I tried to do my Mint Chocolate Chip Hot Fudge Sundaes photo shoot after I got home from work. Since I’m basically awake around 4:30am each day, doing anything after work that involves patience and a modicum of creativity is not the...
If you were going to eat your very last meal, what would it be? A lot of people probably aren’t as morbid as I am and therefore have not given this concept much thought. I, however, have thought about it extensively, and despite all the possible scenarios under which this “last meal” might occur (alien invasion, being on death row, brink of world annihilation, etc.), my selection remains constant: penne vodka. Penne vodka is my favorite...
