How about pomegranate? The juice has a very dark rich flavor and color.
I love love LOVE rose petal ice cream!
You use rose petals and rose water with cream, sugar, etc. and food coloring to make it pink or yellow depending on what kind of rose you use.
I made avocado ice cream, which was quite good (though it needed to be eaten with a topping). I also made wasabi ice cream, which was interesting. I’d say it would appeal to certain people, but it isn’t a crowd pleaser.
Funny, that is the link I *thought *I sent. I did not preview my own link and sent a list of ice cream I never saw! That is what I get for trusting google so much.
Horseflesh, indeed. But it still seems like a natural idea compared to silk. I have a friend in Japan that promised to find it and taste it for me. Do you think there are little fibers in it? That would be so gross, like finding hair in food. I cannot wrap around my mind how one would make silk ice cream. If anyone has a feasible idea, I would gladly try to make it and get back to you.
Lots of good and interesting ideas here. I never really thought about savory ice creams before. This thread is hot-- a fun summer experiment. I am going to introduce it to the kids I work with on weekends. Maybe we could make ice creams representing countries of the world? We could make an ice cream stand!
I do like the sound of pomegranate, Beware of Doug. That really shouted out to me. My mom wants to try that soon.
Crooks Corner. See Post 9 here. The 12th post also includes a link with the recipe, which was published in the News & Observer last year. I cut it out last year, intending to try it this year, but I don’t have ready access to 4 cups of honeysuckle blossoms. 
(Maybe next week when I go home to visit my Dad.)
My sister-in-law the corn freak makes vanilla ice cream with brown sugar and adds creamed corn. It’s not bad.
You could try simply inverting some of the common varieties.
For example, there are lots of ice creams that include nuts, but how many nut flavored ice creams? Almond ice cream with chunks of peaches, walnut ice cream with chocolate chips, pecan ice cream with caramel swirls,…
Also, there are some ordinary fruits that never seem to show up in ice cream:
How about Plum? Cinnamon Applesauce? Brandied Pear?
Thought I’d heard of ice cream containing beans (as in legumes, not coffee or jelly) - it seems like that’d be a natural thing to add corn to.
OK, true succotash has lima beans, not adzuki but with a little creative experimentation, the sky’s the limit!
They have a Chocolate-Peanut Butter flavor now. It’s very good. Like a frozen PB cup.
Cookie dough ice-cream on a bed of pretzel sticks with crumbled pretzels on top.
YUM!
Red bean, and green tea ice cream is common in Chinese supermarkets arround here and green tea ice cream is really good.
For the Samon and cream cheese icecream, maybe add a little vodka, lemon and black pepper to the mix, or capers to the mix. But I would try making a cream cheese and chive ice cream , dusting it with black pepper and then rolling it in smoked samon slices, serve with thin sliced lemon and capers as a starter.
I found a recipe for this a few years ago, at milk.com
I’ve seen a goat cheese icecream at a local fancy schmancy dessert place.
No way I’m trying it!
I was thinking more about unusual mixtures of fruits and nuts, rather than outright weird combos.
Chilli and Mango
Passionfruit and Lime
Green tea and Pistachio
Peach and Coffee (I had this in Italy, they used ground up coffee beans, not brewed coffee, and kept the ski on the pieces of peach…it was yummy)
Black tea and Lemon (basically iced tea icecream)
Pomegranate and Merlot (or another fruity red wine)
Watermelon and Lime (might be nicest as a granita)
Kiwifruit and Pear
Ammaretti, Ammaretto and Almond-nuts, biscuits and alcohol, what’s not to like?
Carrot and Cardamom
Walnut and Caraway
My latest issue of Tea Time magazine has some recipes for tea-flavored ice creams. If anyone’s interested, I can give you recipes for:
- Vanilla Honey and Green Tea ice cream
- Peachy Earl Grey ice cream
- Raspberry and Green Tea sorbet
Also mentioned, but no recipe given: Lemon Curd and Devon cream ice cream.
Never been to the North Market at all. I did read about Jenny getting all upset and threatening to call out the lawyers when Denise’s started selling a salted caramel flavor. I guess that has been Jenny’s “signature” flavor, and she thought she should be the only one who is allowed to make it.
I’ve been to Handel’s west side/Hilliard location. It was good, but anymore, if I’m going out for ice cream, I’m going to Denise’s.
Oh yeah, I’ve had my share of that. But sometimes I just wish I could have peanut butter banana.