yum's the word

tonight i made homemade cookies and cream ice cream for the first time! i found an ice cream maker over a year ago while home visiting my family and asked my mom if i could have it. i brought it home with every intention of using it all the time, but instead it ended up in storage. i decided to test it out and make sure it works before taking it with me to nashville. i was nervous i would mess it up - i've never made ice cream before except in high school in my "food technology" class, where i dumped an ingredient into the bin. vicki told me to be sure and put something underneath it or else i would get salt everywhere, which was a very helpful tip that i definitely would not have thought about.



one of the reasons i haven't made ice cream until now is because i thought it took hours to make, but i quickly learned that i was wrong about that! about 20 minutes after i turned it on it stopped, and i thought "well, i guess it doesn't work". wrong! i couldn't believe how quickly it was finished. i loved the cookies and cream and can't wait to try other flavors, especially pineapple. i really loved the recipe for ice cream that vicki uses, it's simple to make and easy to remember.

2 quarts of half and half
3 cups of sugar
4 teaspoons of vanilla

after putting in these ingredients i put in broken up double stuf oreos until they reached the fill line. the ice cream it made was oh so delicious!



-meghan