My Recipe Box - Ice Cream

UPDATED JUNE 2026
May 2020 - Toronto ON

2016 - Dolores Hidalgo Mexico

I bought a Kitchenaid ice cream attachment last year and went on a kick of making ice cream.

2014 - St. Andrew by the Sea New Brunswick

UPDATED - JUNE 2026

Easy homemade strawberry frozen yogurt.

Ingredients

½ cup plain yogurt (see note)

¼ cup honey or pure maple syrup

16 ounces frozen strawberries, about 4 cups

2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice, optional

Instructions 

In the bowl of a 7- or 8 cup food processor, add the yogurt, honey or maple syrup, frozen strawberries (and lemon juice, if using).

Process until the frozen yogurt is smooth and thick, about 3-4 minutes, scraping down the sides of the container several times, if needed, and using a tamper for the blender to help incorporate the ingredients.

Serve immediately for soft-serve consistency, or transfer the frozen yogurt to a container and freeze for several hours or up to several weeks.

2020 post

But a few weeks ago I had frozen some strawberries and wanted ice cream, but the ice cream bowl needs to be frozen for at least a few hours. Ours wasn't in the freezer (it lived there last summer) as we needed room to stock up during the quarantine.

I found a one ingredient recipe which I tweaked with my additions.
I made it again with blueberries which was also good, but not as good as the strawberries.
I then made it with frozen canned pineapple I had leftover from another recipe. Also good.
I can see any number of combinations working.

INGREDIENTS
2 cups chopped strawberries or blueberries or pineapple
1–2 tsp sugar, optional I used honey

35% whipping cream, just a little to make it creamy
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Chop strawberries in half.
2. Freeze strawberries
3. Put frozen strawberries into a food processor and blend. You may need to scraped down the sides a few times.
4. Keep blending until it smooths out into soft serve strawberry ice cream.
5. Eat immediately or freeze for later. Serve with your favorite toppings.

I came across this article in the New York Times a day after I wrote this post.
Make sorbet from canned fruit. It contains some amazing combinations.

June 13 2020 - raspberries

June 21 2020 - blackberry and lemon honey 35% cream

                         4 bananas and peanut butter 35% cream
May 2021 - mango banana peanut butter

IDEAS
Pink grapefruit basil lime zest

Apple and cinnamon
Rum and raisin

August 13 2020

Found a recipe for no churn ice cream and decided I needed to make it since John had bought cherries and I had dark chocolate from another project along with some past its due date whipping cream. The recipe is from Foodie Adventures. I had also just read that if you soaked fruit in a little vodka it wouldn't freeze rock solid in ice cream, so I did that as well and it worked.

Ingredients
500ml-600ml of heavy cream/thickened cream
1 can of condensed milk (390-400g)
Any toppings you wish (think toppings like chocolate, cookies, nutella or flavoured sauces!)

OPTIONAL - vodka or your alcoholic choice
Method


Whip the heavy cream until stiff peaks form. This may take between 5-10 minutes.
Once stiff peaks have formed slowly fold in the condensed milk.

Soak your fruit choice in vodka. 
When everything is mixed, add your desired toppings and mix them through. *Note if you’d like to add some of your desired toppings on top of the mix, don’t add all of your toppings to the mix, set some aside.*
Pour the mix into a freezer safe container and put the mix in the freezer. *Note, if you set aside some of your toppings, place them on top of the mix now.*
Cover the container and put it in the freezer.

I could also see using flavoured liquors such as lemoncello with raspberries.

2021 

2020 Pandemic

Speaking of ice cream,  I named 2019 The Summer of Ice Cream as we set out to try as many places as we could.

Dundas West was our first introduction to exotic ice cream.

On Dundas West

Queen St. West

Here is a video from probably the most interesting! This was on Baldwin St. steps from the AGO but a new neighbourhood for us.

The there was the POOP CAFE! On Bloor St. West

Vegan ice cream on Queen West.

Yonge St,

Japanese on College St.

Sharing with Suzanne at Garbardine's on Bay.

Harbord St.

Chinatown - gigantic macaron ice cream sandwich.

In Stratford for the weekend.

Trinity Bellwoods - Nadege
John - Canadian Gourmet - maple, nuts and chocolate brittle
Mine - lemon cheesecake, not very lemony but lots of cheese chunks
Average.

Samples from Nani's - carrot and cream and sweet potato, both delicious.
He is top of our list for next summer!

Prince Edward Island - 1990

 May 2026 - Toronto ON

As I was planning our little trip to Charlottetown PEI, I realized I had posted our 2014 visit but never our 1990.

I know we went in 1990 because we had never been there and we also knew we were moving to Toronto from Montreal, so it would be a longer trip from Toronto.

This is mainly a photo (pre-digital) dump as there is little I remember other than the amazing food!!

Anne of Green Gables

Brackley Beach is a popular beach destination located only 20 minutes from Charlottetown with majestic dunes, clear water, and miles of pristine sand.

Cavendish Beach

Cavendish Mac Coubrey's B&B

CHARLOTTETOWN

McKinnon's Pound.

Dalvey

Malpeque

Montague 

North Rustic

Point Prim

SOURIS

Every Saturday afternoon during the summer months less than a dozen Anglicans gather in St. Alban's Anglican Church in Souris for services. This Saturday the services were led by Richard Ball, a lay minister. The church, erected in 1980 to serve approximately 70 parishioners  sits near site of the original church adjacent to Church Street in the town and close to the edge of a cliff bordering Colville Bay. The first church was built in 1895 under the leadership of Rev. E.T. Woollard. Before that, services were held in a private home. It was closed in 1919 and later demolished. The land was sold for $300 together with part of the churchyard after the Second World War.

SUMMERSIDE

Woodleigh Replicas was a park of miniatures situated in the rural community of Burlington outside Kensington, Prince Edward Island on a 30-acre site. The visitor attraction opened in 1957 and closed in May 2008.

Me!

Point Prim, from the air.

Tuesday Treasures

 

Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme.

Crossing from Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick

It is also the longest bridge over ice covered water in the world.

The Confederation Bridge was built between 1993 and 1997 to provide a more reliable and high-capacity means of transit between Prince Edward Island and mainland Canada. 

When Prince Edward Island joined Confederation in 1873, the Government of Canada committed to providing continuous communication to the island. This role was originally filled by the Cape Jourimain iceboat service, and later the Cape Tormentine ferry, which transported mail and passengers across the Northumberland Strait. 

Map of P.E.I. showing various routes across Northumberland Strait over time

Early proposals for a fixed-link crossing included an underwater tunnel and a rock-filled causeway. In the 1960s, a roadbed was built to the edge of Jourimain Island with the intent of building a fixed-link, but the project was never completed.

In the late 1980s, new-found enthusiasm revived the project and construction began in 1993. The 12.9 kilometre box girder bridge opened to the public in 1997, ending the service of the Cape Tormentine ferry and the Cape Jourimain lighthouse. 

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