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Ice Cream / Frozen Treats

Strawberry Cake Batter Ice Cream

September 29, 2009
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When CK and I were first dating he lived in Westborough which was just a short jaunt to the Cold Stone Creamery on route 9. When you’re thin and in brand new love it’s easy to forget that one day four years later all of those trips to Cold Stone Creamery for the romantic act [...]

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Crescent Ridge Dairy Bar

August 5, 2009
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Baby Emily and her Mommy, Meghan, took me out for ice cream last week after we continued our “Ladies Who Lunch” tradition. Just a dangerously short ride from their lovely home is the spectacular Crescent Ridge Dairy Bar.

One of my few laments about living in the city is the inability to have this type of [...]

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Double Thin Mint Ice Cream

April 30, 2009
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I was a Girl Scout once upon a time. Emphasis on once. Technically I was a Brownie. Each week a group of girls and myself would walk to our troop leader’s house around the block from our elementary school. One of the girls in our group was a little thug and would occasionally steal our [...]

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Turkey Hill Junior Mint Ice Cream

April 17, 2009
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You know how Carrie Bradshaw is all “hello lover” when it comes to Manolo Blahniks? Well that’s what I said when I saw this Turkey Hill Junior Mint ice cream today in the freezer section of the Porter Square Shaws. I literally stopped in the middle of the aisle and did a double take. Then [...]

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Peanut Butter Ice Cream with White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

April 1, 2009
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When I found this ice cream recipe I really wanted to alter it to use as a peanut butter treat to stir all of the leftover White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups into. But I struggled with whether or not I wanted to make it. You see the below ice cream base calls for using uncooked [...]

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Banana Sorbet

September 9, 2008

If you are what you eat then I would undoubtedly end up some cross between a banana and a block of extra sharp white cheddar. Not exactly a pretty outcome, but reality nonetheless. I always try to have bananas on hand and I do my best to eat them before they go bad, but a [...]

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XOXO Homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches

July 24, 2008

For the record I have been so incredibly impressed with all of the Tovolo products I’ve been using over the last few weeks. The molds I used for Popsicle Week were all distributed by Tovolo and the ice cream sandwich molds I tested for this post were no exception. With the assistance of these cute [...]

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Purple Cow Frozen Yogurt

July 21, 2008

Last weekend I finally got to go to the beach for the first time this summer. It was fabulous. I even briefly braved the 66 degree ocean temp for a quick dunk. Once upon a time someone told me that salt water increased your highlights. Obviously this meant more to me when I was a [...]

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