Today I would like to introduce you to Carolyn. She writes over at All Day I Dream About Food. She is amazingly talented, and super sweet. She was one of the first few food bloggers I discovered, and I have been going back ever since. I helped her out a couple months ago with my Peanut Butter Protein Balls, and with as busy as she is (she has 3 kids), she was kind enough to return the favor. Carolyn was also one of the first respond to my all call for help with the Colorado Wildfires Bake Sale. Make sure you check it out, I have almost 45 items up for bidding, and 3 amazing prizes to win.
If you are not already familiar with Carolyn, I highly suggest you visit her site. Amazing pictures and wonderful inspiration.
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It’s strawberry season here in New England! Actually, by the time you read this, strawberry season will just be coming to a close. But Erin asked me to do this guest post several months ago, and at that time we were enjoying a very early spring. The lovely warm weather had me daydreaming of fun family activities like strawberry picking. That always goes over well with my kids, no matter what kind of mood they are in. We have a favorite berry farm and the kids relish in standing in the middle of the strawberry fields, stuffing their faces. What it really comes down to is the parents picking the berries to take home and the kids feasting and not filling their baskets at all.
Strawberry rhubarb is, in my opinion, the ultimate early summer flavor combination. And in fact, I should probably call this ice cream Rhubarb Strawberry, because I like a high ratio of the rhubarb to the berries. I love the tartness of the rhubarb being offset by the sweetness of the berries. You can switch up this recipe, if you prefer more berries, but I think a 2 to 1 ratio is just about perfect. I’ve always loved strawberry rhubarb sauce drizzled over vanilla ice cream, so when Erin asked me to guest post, it suddenly occurred to me to swirl the sauce INTO the ice cream. I mean, why not just mix them all up together from the get-go?
So I cooked up a batch of strawberry rhubarb (rhubarb strawberry?) sauce. Then I made a vanilla ice cream custard base and churned it in my ice cream maker. Toward the end of the churning, I took about a cup of the sauce and added it to the ice cream maker to let it mix in. Once churning was complete, I transferred the ice cream to an airtight container and swirled in another cup of the sauce. I put the whole thing in the freezer to firm up, and after dinner I had a delicious scoop of homemade Strawberry Rhubarb Swirl Ice Cream. With a little extra Strawberry Rhubarb sauce on top, because that’s how I roll.
Now, if you don’t know my blog, All Day I Dream About Food, then you may not know that I am a diabetic who eats low carb. So this recipe is made with almond milk and some sugar alternatives. But you can make it just as easily with whole milk and sugar and it will work out just as well. And many thanks to Erin for asking me to guest post. Dinners, Dishes & Desserts is one of the blogs I follow religiously, so I am thrilled that she asked me to contribute.
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