Before I could even finish typing you the intro on this one, I was screamin’ for ice cream. Just thinking about it. GIVE. ME. NOW. Smooth, luxuriously creamy ice cream with hints of real strawberries throughout. Creamy and sweet, but not tooo sweet. I love serving ice cream up in a cone. For some reason, it doesn’t feel like summer around here until you’ve got a hot day and an ice cream cone with half melted ice cream running down your arm. Isn’t that what summers all about? Good food, family, picnics, and barbecues. The long, dog days of summer need a little 3pm pick-me-up. And I promise you, this creamy strawberry ice cream will deliver, every single time. Did you notice how I fed you salads all week long before we got to Friday? Yup, uh-huh. That was because I had been planning on dropping this ice cream bomb on you since last week (!!!). Can you BELIEVE I waited an entire week to put this recipe up? AND without spilling the beans about the fresh strawberry ice cream that’s waiting for you after a LONNG week? I know, it’s mean huh? But to be honest. I don’t know how I did it. Actually, I do know how. I refused to shoot the strawberry ice cream until I was ready to put this post up. Because I knew, the minute this strawberry ice cream got all dolled up and had it’s glamour shots, the hubby and I were going to jump into the container, spoons at the ready. So really, I wanted to make sure we ALL had enough salads to counter ALL the ice cream that we planned on eating. Growing up, summer meant ice cream, fireflies, no school, and library books ♥. Was is like that for you too? Oh, you mean, you DON’T agree with me about the library books? Was it just me? Oops. Moving along. I loved how warm, sticky summer days rolled into cool, crisp summer nights in Chicago. I lived in a quiet suburban neighborhood that always had an ice cream man come through our street during summer evening. The hardest decision as a child – what flavor ice cream I wanted. I say, can we please go back to those days! I loved those Flinestones ice cream push-ups. The orange flavored ones in particulatar. Boy, I could’ve eaten those for breakfast. And on countless occasions, I asked begged my mom if she’d let me, too. But is there anything in the WORLD that beats homemade fresh strawberry ice cream. One batch of this ice cream contains an entire pound of strawberries. We pulse some of the strawberries and chop some of them into bits and pieces so you get real strawberry bites all throughout the ice cream. Side note, have you ever noticed how BlueBell’s strawberry ice cream is so gosh darn PINK? Why is it SO pink? Summer is just around the corner (!!). Let the good times roll. Make a little fresh strawberry ice cream, fill it up in a cone, let it melt just a bit until it’s even creamier and let the good times roll. May your weekend never end. May your summers be warm, and your ice cream be smooth and creamy!
Here is the ice cream maker I used.
I have not tried this fresh strawberry ice cream with anything other than cows milk.Ice cream base slightly adapted from Laura Vitale.
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