Egg Whites and Chocolate Ice Cream

I'm home today trying to beat down this cold. Even sleeping in until eleven this morning and I still feel run down. I feel better than I did yesterday, but still lame.

This summer I managed to get the ice cream maker attachment for Gandalf the Gray (my Kitchen Aid Pro Series stand mixer). We had it a few weeks before I finally had a chance to use it. Now, I must say, I don't think I will ever buy ice cream again (unless I am truly desperate).

I found a great recipe for homemade chocolate ice cream that was easy to follow and absolutely delicious on Frugal Living NW (another Pacific Northwest based blog). Here's a link to the recipe; which is also one of my cooking hero's recipes - the great Alton Brown. I plan to also try a vanilla one in the future.

The texture was so creamy and the flavor was uncomplicated and perfect. I can imagine all the lovely ways I could tweak it to make different ice creams like rocky road, brownie, death by chocolate, and the list goes on.

There was a wonderful quote on the post the recipe came from that I can wholeheartedly endorse, it's from another book and the short and sweet version is that there is nothing wrong with eating "junk food" on occasion as long as you make it yourself. Most of us aren't willing to make our own ice cream or fries or such.

By making my own ice cream I'm avoiding waste when I eat egg whites. If I didn't make ice cream with the yolks they'd just have to be tossed and I hate the idea of wasting food.

I need to figure out if they can be frozen, otherwise I may be making more and more ice cream than is necessarily beneficial. It would negate the whole point of eating the egg whites, right?

Sorry, my focus is lacking today and in turn my post is lacking the meat I wanted it to have.

Ruby is peacefully snoring while I have "Begin Again" playing in the background. I have wanted to watch it for a while; it is partially to blame for the lack of focus. In a little bit I need to drag my ass into the kitchen to start on dinner. It's more of a dessert for dinner sort of thing... Okay it's straight up dessert. I'm making berry cobbler for dinner.

I am trying to start cleaning out the freezer, but that will be in the next post.