Found myself thinking about this fantastic video from 9 years ago and wanted to share. The band has still been making interesting new developments in mechanical marble based music machines. This original one has been donated to a museum.
Older video but I really appreciate her perspective on why so many otherwise cute shoes are so awful. It helped me understand why I barely feel wearing some of my favorite heels, but hate nearly every pair I try on in the shop!
By far my most consistently asked for ice cream is peanut butter. Our friend circle is increasingly filled with radicalized peanut butter supremacists. It's also one of the easiest to make. I decided I'm willing to share my secrets ;)
You'll need:
Ice cream maker (obviously)
Batter bucket (big mixing bowl with measures on the side and a spout, I use an 8 cup glass one)
Silicone spatula
Ingredients:
1 cup smooth peanut butter. I've tried crunchy but the bits don't mix well. Skippy Naturals is my recommendation
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup light cream
2 tbsp vanilla extract
Whole milk
First, stir the peanut butter thoroughly to incorporate any oil that's settled to the top. Pour it into the batter bucket using the spatula until you've roughly reached the 1 cup line when leveled. Add the sugar, and mix. Add the cream in portions, stopping to mix it into the peanut butter as you go to avoid lumps. Add the vanilla extract, and then add whole milk until you reach the 4 cup line on your batter bucket. Stir until homogenous. Optional: pre-chill the mixture in the fridge for a faster freezing time. Pour it into your ice cream maker, and churn for 15 minutes if pre-chilled or about 25 minutes if not, until the ice cream is a soft serve consistency. Scoop it into your preferred containers and put into the freezer to firm up.
Serve with a drizzle of your favorite chocolate sauce. I suggest SMALL PORTIONS. It's extremely rich and you can always go back for more.
If you don't have a batter bucket, I can't recommend one enough. Scooping peanut butter out of and then cleaning the measuring cups is a giant pain. Being able to pour the mixture from a spout is a huge upgrade over a bowl. It's immensely helpful in ice cream making and if you plan on making it more than once in your life just get one already.
Enjoy ;)
One of my favorite home made flavors is MANGO! Don't try to tell me it should be a sorbet, I don't care.
Makes about 2qts
Ingredients:
1 cup light cream 2 cups mango puree or blended frozen mangos 3/4 cup white sugar 4 tbps mango or coconut rum (~12% alcohol) ~3/4 cup whole milk
In a blender, add about 2 1/2 cups of frozen mango chunks and the 1 cup cream and blend until smooth. Add some milk as needed for blending. You should end up with approximately 3 cups of a mango and cream mixture. Pour it into an 8 cup "batter bucket"*. Add the sugar and rum and stir until the sugar is dissolved and you no longer feel grains (can take a minute). Add the milk to get the mixture up to the 4 cup line of the batter bucket, approximately 3/4 cup. Stir, and once it's a homogeneous color pour into a 2qt ice cream maker to churn. It should be in a soft serve state within 15min if you used frozen mango, or 20-25min if you used a mango puree. Remove from ice cream maker when it's the consistency of soft serve frozen yogurt and scoop into containers of your choosing. Allow it to firm up in the freezer for a few hours.
*it's a giant measuring cup that also works as a mixing bowl and it's immensely useful for ice cream making and anything else where you need to end up with a finished product that has to be poured.
The alcohol helps keep the ice cream from freezing too hard since this recipe doesn't have as much fat. The mango rum I use is by Cruzan and personally I can't taste it in the ice cream, but serve to kids at your own discretion.
For those who missed the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pygcgE3a_uY
Don't try to tell me Beyond Earth was a sequel, Stellaris is more of a sequel to SMAC than BE was.
Found myself starting to think about trying some new thing that sounded cool, and realized it might be fun to think about all of the random interests, crafts, hobbies and pursuits I've chased on tangents to my life. It's easy to feel like a bum or a failure for dropping hobbies and that could cause hesitation in starting something new, but on sheer volume I bet some of us have impressive lists. Requirement is that it never made you real dependable income and wasn't a career for you. Aside from that, sky is wide open. It can be something you tried for a few weeks, years, or still do. What's your trail of hobbies?
