I absolutely love blueberries, and treated myself to a very large punnet a few weeks ago. I was making a cobbler and used strawberries and blueberries for it and then had an abundance left over. I decided to adapt one of the Simple Summer Cookathon recipes to suit my fridge and make a blueberry ripple ice cream instead of the strawberry ripple ice cream. This stunning ice cream was the perfect accompaniment to the chocolate pudding but more about that later.
Each year Yuppiechef host a cookathon and I have taken part in every single one of them. This year our meal started with a melon and avocado salad with a spicy seed brittle and a roasted tomato dressing. The dressing is so good and I am so glad we did not use all of it as it is going to be my summer favourite. I made a sugar spicy brittle as well as a sugar free version using fructose and I have some left over for snacking on when I get home. I am going to make some more to blog about as it is really easy and extremely tasty. I was skeptical about melon and tomato together but the flavours worked so well and the entire platter was devoured. Luckily my two avocados were perfect!
We had invited Alex and Louise to join us and while the boys chatted away I finished off the classic wild mushroom risotto and caught up with Lou. I had started the prep for the risotto in the afternoon, substituting dried porcini mushrooms for fresh shiitake mushrooms. I also used concentrated mushroom stock for the risotto. I doubled the quantity of mushrooms as I was not serving a protein with the dish, and we could not finish it. Everyone commented on how great it was which made me feel great!
This was followed by the chocolate pudding with blueberry ripple ice cream – a perfect end to a perfect meal!
Blueberry Ripple Ice Cream
Ingredients
for the blueberry ripple
- 265 g blueberries
- 115 g fructose
- 5 mls vanilla extract
for the ice cream
- 250 mls milk
- 250 mls cream
- 10 mls vanilla extract
- 5 egg yolks
- 90 g fructose
Method
for the blueberry ripple
- Purée the blueberries, fructose and vanilla in a food processor
- Pass through a chinois
- Place into the fridge until needed
for the ice cream
- Place the milk, cream and vanilla extract into a sauce pan and bring to the boil
- Whisk together the egg yolks and fructose until at a ribbon stage
- Pour half of the milk onto the eggs and whisk to combine
- Add the egg mixture back into the sauce pan
- Reduce the heat and stir with a wooden spoon until a custard forms or you reach 75° Celsius using a candy thermometer
- Pour the custard into a container and refrigerate over night
- Churn the custard in an ice cream machine until it has thickened
- Take the blueberry mixture out of the fridge and give it a good mix
- Pour the ice cream into a container and swirl through the blueberry mix
- Place in the freezer for at least 4 hours
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What I blogged:
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- one year ago – Interview with Margot Janse
- two years ago – Gluten Free Country Style Bread
- three years ago – White Marshmallow And Cointreau Mousse
This sounds delicious! I can have a few of these scoops and maybe more! YUM!
Thanks Anne!
Sounds like you had a lovely time and the lunch looked delicious. Looking forward to the recipe for the dressing xx
I shall blog that soon!
I love how generous you were with the mushrooms! I always think that more vegetable or protein always enhances a risotto 😀
I just love mushrooms and can never have enough!
Each one of those dishes looks amazing!
thank you Tammy 🙂
What a lovely meal and that platter to start with looks stunning!
I just loved the salad 🙂
What a feast! It all looks great – definitely my kind of meal! Well done.
thank you Teresa xxx
Your entire post looks delicious!
thank you so much 🙂
I love blueberries. And with chocolate – even better! 😀
a perfect combination!
Ooo you’re making me wish it was spring here again!!
I am so glad it is warm here, even if it is still raining!
My husband just now made this berry lusciously ice-cream & it is the best, Tammy,…really superb even,…xxx
why, thank you Sophie!