Aren't you GLAD we made ice cream!?

Brett discovered something goofy and fun about our new homemade ice creams. When our Gladware containers are filled to the brim, we get an indentation! So should we start calling our ice cream Glad brand?



You can see here we have sexy Brett styling his iPod, his dishelved putzing-around-on-a-Sunday hairstyle, and the chocolate chocolate chunk ice cream I made Friday. Boy is it goooood stuff!! I made the standard chocolate ice cream recipe that came with the maker - none of the fancy Ben & Jerry recipes this time. Only I added two pasteurized eggs to give it a little richness (plus we've been reading about how that helps the ice cream last longer!), annnnnd 4oz of chunked up sweet dark chocolate. Gives it that something extra special. And gives us a few extra pounds around the bellies! ;-)

And then tonite, in addition to making some kick-ass fried chicken, mashed potatoes, country gravy (shhh...it's from a package), and homegrown salad/baby greens, I also whipped up this little chocolately beauty! You'll find the recipe here: http://bakingsheet.blogspot.com/2006/04/cooking-school-chocolate-marble-cake.html (And you'll also find links there to several other sites who's blog-writers have made it) I cooked it up in my heavily ridged Nordicware Bundt Pan, and had some minor sticking issues that kept part of the cake in the pan (next time - flour the pan after Pamming it, no matter what the original recipe says!) You can sort of tell that my strategic photo angle here was an attempt to hide the missing part of the cake - didn't quite work out. Oh well - still tasted amazingly good! Yum! (I'm starting to think "Yum!" should be the name of this blog!)