Pictures of My Breakfast 7

Hey Breakfast-heads! I have a special treat for you this morning... I spent all weekend cooking up a storm. Not a literal storm though. That could kill me.

However, I did make three things. And two of them were the same kind of thing!

A couple of years ago, on a very hot summer day, I impulse purchased an electric ice cream maker, mainly because I wanted ice cream. Which is stupid, because it was delivered about a week later. However, I still wanted ice cream, so I made some. That was the last time I ever used that thing, until four years later, I'm reading the New York Times Style Section, and they have a recipe for Red Wine Ice Cream.

"That sounds weird," I said aloud even though there was nobody in my apartment. And, turns out, aside from cream, I had every single ingredient on hand! So I pulled out my dirty little ice cream maker, and set to work.

Now, here's the thing about making ice cream. You can buy really good ice cream at the store for $3-4. OR, you can make your own ice cream over the course of two days, costing anywhere from $20 to $50. Your choice.

To show you how much goes into making ice cream, here's all the ingredients I used to make ONE PINT of Red Wine Ice Cream:



And here's all the pots and pans and bowls, not including the ice cream maker itself:



When its all done, here's what you get:



This is the base ice cream mixture. After mixing everything properly, boiling it down, mixing it again, and chilling overnight, you get the mixture that allows you to begin to make ice cream. However, this is the cool part. Pun intended!

After you pull the ice cream maker out of the freezer (Oh yeah, if you forget to put the ice cream maker in the freezer, you have to wait overnight again... It takes several hours to freeze), you just pour the mixture in, and 20 minutes later, voila! You have a frozen mixture that just needs to sit in the freezer for about two hours, minimum!

Then you can eat it, and it looks like this:



See, only three days work, and then you get to eat Red Wine Ice Cream.

Oh yeah, that's the other problem. Red Wine Ice Cream is gross.

Actually, that's not exactly true. The consistency is fantastic, the color is beautiful, and the taste, is just that, red wine ice cream. But make sure, if you ever, ever make this, you use an incredibly expensive red wine with a low tannin count. You know that bitter after-taste some cheaper red wines have? Multiply that by 100, and you have the after-taste of the red wine ice cream.

Luckily for me, since I was already in an ice cream making mode, I followed that up (two days later), with a batch of Chocolate Cinnamon Ice Custard, which is thicker and smoother than ice cream, and also, more delicious.



As you can see, most of that has been eaten, compare that to the container of Red Wine Ice Cream.

To go with the ice cream, I also made a Buttermilk Coffee Cake:



Also, delicious. Red Wine Ice Cream, you're the runt of the litter.

In any case, how does this relate to breakfast? I ate it for breakfast! Not the Red Wine Ice Cream, though.

I also had coffee.

Have something you'd like Alex to eat for breakfast? Request it in the comments section!