For Jaeger’s and my birthdays, my parents bought us a compressor ice cream maker. I’ve been wanting one of these for a while because I like ice cream but don’t like the mess that the ice and salt require.

After some mix-up with the shipping (the ice cream maker seller mistakenly addressed it to someone else on our street who, unfortunately, does not speak English), I unpacked the ice cream maker Wednesday night. According to the instructions, I was suppose to let it sit for 24 hrs before using it.

I asked Jaeger what type of ice cream he’d like to try and he decided on French Vanilla. Thursday night, I went and gathered the ingredients. Vanilla Bean can be pretty expensive but I was happy to discover that Vitamin Cottage sells them at a fairly reasonable price. French Vanilla Ice Cream requires first making a custard and then chilling it. It was obvious that chilling was going to take too long so I decided we’d have the ice cream Friday night with Apple Pie.

The Apple Pie tasted fine but I managed to mess up the crust (I don’t know why I have such trouble with pie crusts). The ice cream maker worked great. I’m not a huge fan of vanilla ice cream but it tasted fine to me and Jaeger seemed to like it.

It occurred to me that if you stopped the ice cream making when the ice cream was still fairly soft, you could mix in other stuff and probably have a Dairy Queen blizzard-like consistency. Something to try another day, perhaps in summer