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(This one is especially for mactavish. =) )

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From Fark:

In (dis)honor of "I, Robot" and "Starship Troopers 2," photoshop a scene from the next movie that Hollywood will make that butchers a good book.

This one is genius!

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Saffron rosewater ice cream is freezing as I type; I took a quick taste of the base earlier, and it seems to have potential. Rosewater was obtained at Grand Mart, along with kim chi for C. (can't stand the stuff myself), a large package of spicy ramen, a "family sized" tube of wasabi (for a family of one, maybe) , and a Toblerone bar to meet the $10 minimum for charge cards. I can never go into that place for "just one thing" and come out with only what I went in for, but then again I don't really try all that hard.

I should be doing homework, but I'm half done and I don't want to do anymore tonight. So long as I'm done by the end of the week with the assignments I'm behind on, I should be good. Entertain me instead? Failing that, I'll perhaps go curl up with my book.

ice cream results

Not bad. Not as stunningly wonderful as I'd hoped, but definitely not bad for a first attempt and some guesstimation. There's something slightly off-balance in it, perhaps next time an adjustment to the saffron amount. Or maybe next time I'll just make vanilla/rosewater instead. =)

I went with the basic ice cream base recipe that came with my ice cream maker:

1 cup milk
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups heavy cream

Warm the milk in a small pan. Whisk the eggs with the sugar in a separate bowl. Slowly add the warm milk to sugar mixture, continuing to whisk. Pour mixture back into the pan and heat slowly until thickened, stirring constantly (do not boil). When thickened, remove the mixture from the heat and let it cool to room temperature.

While I was heating the mixture, I added somewhere between an eighth- and a quarter-teaspoon of saffron powder to it (using the eyeball method). Once the mixture had cooled sufficiently, I added two tablespoons of rosewater, then the two cups of heavy cream, stirred, and then froze it.