Ah, yes-- the choco-vanilla soft swirl. This is childhood, right here:
I’m always thinking of ice cream. This time of year, I go for peppermint or spumoni.
It was too cold to walk this morning, so I stayed in the warm bed. It’s an easy habit to get into during winter and break out of in spring. I will try to not fall for it this year. I made white bean chicken chili last night. I should know better than to put it together ahead of time and put the Instant pot insert in the fridge. It gets too cold, and the chicken on the bottom of the dump insulates the rest of the ingredients, so the chicken burns, and the rest never build up enough pressure to seal the pot. I should have lined up the ingredients and had my son combine them while we were at yoga. Ah well, instead of pressure cooking for two minutes, it simmered for forty-five. In the end I still had yummy chili and lunch for today. I might do chicken and rice soup for tonight. Ooh - I should check that I have the ingredients for vegetarian chili. Actually, I should wait a day or two. The tupperwares are currently occupied by last night’s dinner.
Waffle cone. I’ll generally choose whatever is coffee ice cream based with chips and nuts. Will make an exception for something like cherries and chocolate. Maybe maple. But the chunky additives are key.
Biggest decision is whether to go with 1 scoop or 2. And if 2, the same flavor or different (not to mention, which on top.)
Temps outside in single digits. I think we have 4 different flavors of ice cream in our freezer at the moment.
Good morning all. Another Rip Van Winkle Day, was abed until 8:45am and should be well-rested for the balance of Moanday. Shopping-and-Sammich will be done here shortly and Puzzle-and-Gym will be in the afternoon, might even do some housework while I’m at it. 23F outside heading to 41F, so it looks like the coldest air may be done and highs will be returning to 60F later this week.
As for the Ice Cream Cone query, I was a die-hard Chocolate person for many years, but then tried Butter Pecan and that has become my go-to now (but only if it has real pecans in it, not just flavored).
And catching up on the Morning news here…
Sticky Buns, stay warm, Music Man knows how to adapt to the cold as part of his job.
swampy, sweet story. Never tried pistachio ice cream, but I raise a cone in memory of your Mom.
Knots, I had that problem early, just take a little time to concentrate and make sure it’s settled there and you should be OK. And like Sticky, stay inside and stay warm!
Presume that means she’s on the way home. If I’m right, hope travel is uneventful.
Taters, sounds like Monsoon season out your way. Stay dry.
Maus, happy cooking!
And time to head for Kroger and Jersey Mike’s for the morning run. Have a good week all.
She crossed from the Yucatan Peninsula to over the Gulf of Mexico. Now she’s almost ‘feet-dry’, approaching the coastline of Texas.
My niece went to school with one (or both) of Ron Howard’s daughters - it was a foo-foo boarding school where niece now teaches (till the end of this school year, then she’s supposedly quitting. We shall see.)
Truth!
I like many flavors, especially any involving chocolate, but near, if not at, the top of the list is chocolate-peanut butter swirl. Baskin-Robins used to have one that I’d have slapped my grandmother for! 
Maybe they still do, but I haven’t been to B-R in eons. Burgundy cherry is another fave, and rocky road. Nope, not gonna list any more - it’ll get out of control. Altho since we’re watching our food (FCD crossed the diabetic line and he’s now on the right side of it, so we continue) I honestly can’t recall the last time I had any - maybe on our cruise in July?
We went to Scramblers for breakfast - can’t recommend it. The food was just OK and the tab was $40 before tip. For breakfast for 2. We shan’t return. Then we took care of a couple more errands and came home to a partially trashed house. Otis will be crated from now on when we leave.
I’m running the ice maker at the moment, and in an hour or so, I’ll head downstairs to do some Cetoling. Today started at 14 Ferrets, so I’ll probably need a fire down there. Stoopit cold.
No other plans, so today will happen as it happens.
Happy Moanday!
I used to spend part of my summer at my brother’s house, which was in a very tiny collection of similar small homes and trailers that had no running water and outhouses. The only businesses in this unincorporated “town” were a garage and, oddly enough, a Dairy Queen. The greatest treat I could imaging was a soft ice cream dipped in hard shell chocolate. It’s still my favorite.
Feeling overly tired this morning after the cookie baking exercise yesterday. Don’t know why that would be, but I’m feeling my age today.
It’s warming up today (we’re at a sultry 18F). Should hit 40 tomorrow.
Checking FlightAware, it looks like they’re turning Final for IAH. 
EDIT because I neglected to post the reply: They have landed in Houston.
We don’t have a great food culture in this town, but there is a very good ice cream/gelato place nearby.. googles Damn- turns out the local branch announced they’re closing 2 days ago, they claim with the plan to relocate, but no location announced. It’s cold enough right now to buy tubs from the main branch, but not in summer…
They switch up the flavours a lot, so I tend to get a different one whenever I go. IMO nuts have no place in any sweet food, with a grudging pass to praline, so you can fight over my pistachio.
I’ve been banging my head against the wall trying to get something done in the lab for ages.
Science
It’s a PCR, which you may remember from your COVID tests. If you don’t know what it is, this is done using what is basically a strand of manufactured DNA (a primer)- you pick the code- and it sticks to a matching bit in the real DNA, in a way that allows you to copy it.
As you pick the code, you can design it around the DNA of the target. You can use it for presence/absence of a unique bit of DNA like they were doing with COVID, or, if it’s designed carefully you can use it to select and copy a whole chunk of DNA for sequencing, which can be used for ID of one or multiple organisms at once. I’ve been doing option 2, for a whole group of fungi, using primers that were bought in years ago when someone else was looking at the same fungi. It’s been doing nothin’. I’ve now tried enough tricks that it’s looking very much like it’s it, not me.
Today I finally properly checked what’s (hand) written on the bag- and it’s not matching the sequence it was supposed to be. There’s one base missing, right in the middle. In my defence it’s 50+ bases long and it’s just A,T,C and G in combo, so it’s not easy to spot, but dammit, if that’s accurate no bloody wonder it didn’t work. This has wasted weeks of my time, and something like £500 of chemicals.
Anyway, hopefully I can get what I should have been using delivered before Christmas, and fingers crossed that is the issue and it now works, so I can get it finished in the New Year.
I cannot wait for the new year and the days to get longer..
Sunrise: 08:41
Sunset: 15:33
Barely worth getting out of bed.
I’m not sure if I’ve even seen a B-R since I left Scotland in '92. I used to walk two or three blocks from work to the closest B-R during my lunch breaks. I did get a few funny looks from people who saw me walking in the snow with an ice cream cone and a short-sleeved shirt. When we first moved to the Big City (pop ~60,000) in '67 there was a Bresler’s 33, but I think it closed just three or four years later. I was surprised when Wiki told me a few minutes ago that they were still in business in '07. Best ice-cream place I’ve ever seen was Farrell’s, also now defunct. :{
I just did a search - there are 3 within 30-40 minutes of me, but I don’t care enough to visit any of them. There’s a Coldstone and a Broosters and a Sweet Frog within 15 miles, plus a couple of DQ (not that they’re really ice cream.) Plus a couple of local places in Leonardtown. Maybe some day I’ll have some… maybe.
Our Bruster’s just closed down. It was a sad day in the Magill household. They did open up an Abbott’s across the street, so there’s that.
Oh, and what exactly is a “cake cone”? Never heard of them before.
Cake cone
I completely agree. When I a kid, giving me an ice cream cone was a recipe for ending up with the ice cream melting and running down my arm, along with a chance for the scoop to end up on the ground. I’m simply incapable of licking an ice cream cone in a timely fashion without making a huge mess.
By the time I was ten years old, I realized ice cream cones were simply not for me and always requested a cup. I did later make an exception for the big waffle cones in which you eat the ice cream with a spoon as if it were a cup. And even then it was likely to melt and drip out through the bottom of the cone before I was done.
Don’t remember where it was, but there was a place that would give the option of having the ice cream in a cup, and then would put the waffle cone upside-down on top. And the waffle cone was fresh off the press.
So, fresh peach ice cream in a cup with a warm waffle cone on top please.
Ice cream is definitely a year round treat. When I was in the US, I would get peppermint or pumpkin. Unfortunately neither flavor is available around here.
I am mostly moved into my new tablet + keyboard, but I have a few bookmarks on my old laptop to check. I just got tired of checking everything.
Today didn’t start well. First thing I saw on the computer was the sad news about Rob Reiner. (Pretend there’s a sad emoji here - somehow this is complicated.)
Rest of the day was working from home, as I am attending a 3-day project management course via Zoom. Kept me busy.
Sunday we had French toast (made from a pandoro) for breakfast and salmon for lunch. Today’s lunch was leftover salmon with leftover rice, plus a shallot and some spinach as a weird stir-fry.
Sunset was 16:38 today (4:38 pm for those who don’t speak 24 hour time).
I like ice cream. I like some flavors better than other flavors but I will eat and enjoy what is offered. There is a patisserie that serves made-on-site ice cream a few miles up the road. We visit often
We won’t be going out today, though. I’m sure all of the ice has melted/been scraped off the roads now, but it is still below freezing and we don’t have any reason to go out so why bother?
The weather messed up our package deliveries, everything is stuck in Ohio, so I won’t have mailing boxes until tomorrow and it is supposed to be over 60F on Thursday, so we will do our errands then. Maybe we will stop for ice cream
When I was a kid, mom would push a marshmallow into the bottom of the cone to stop them from dripping or sometimes she would melt chocolate and pour it into the bottom of the cones. Of course, that was for “fancy” occasions, like her parents visiting in the summer.
The solstice is on the 21st, you’ve almost made it through!
I was a failure at those. Mom wouldn’t let me pick the chocolate off with my fingers and when I bit it, half of it would break off and end up on the ground 
We are in total agreement!
Thrifty ice cream for a nickle. That was childhood to me
That’s why I sit by my same-as-sunlight device every morning until after sunrise. It lessens the effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder.
We just spent an hour and a half ordering plastic breathing tubes from Apria. That is, I gave up trying to decipher their phone and website after an hour, and Mrs. Nott was able to find a human and order what I needed in 30 minutes. Grrr, and grawlix.
I was planning on going to sleep for a month and hissing at anyone rude enough to disturb me, but I guess that would be a more adult solution…
My parents have a photograph somewhere from where they just dressed toddler me head-to-toe in waterproofs, handed me an ice cream cone and sat back to watch and laugh. Then just hosed me down afterwards.
I’m not an ice cream fan, never was even as kid. It doesn’t hold any appeal, although if I were offered a dish of PINK peppermint stick ice cream on Christmas I probably wouldn’t say no. Other than that, I don’t care if I ever eat it again.
Yesterday the temp hit a high of 2F with a wind chill of NEGATIVE 12. Didn’t stop Bears fans from watching them trounce Cleveland. Today is a balmy 20F.