I made vanilla ice cream on Monday night. I had most of the ingredients at home but needed heavy cream. So I ran across the street to Bloom. Which is usually not my store of choice but it was getting late and just needed the cream. While I was there, I thought I'd grab a vanilla bean to add to the ice cream instead of the bottled vanilla I had at home. It would taste better and I liked the idea of the black flecks in the ice cream.
Here is a picture of vanilla beans, in case you don't know what they look like:
I didn't see any vanilla beans when I got there, so I asked an employee if they had them and where they would be. He thought for a moment then took me to the canned beans aisle. He thought they would be in with the baked beans, garbanzo beans, etc. The next employee I asked was honest and told me he had no idea what I was talking about. I just gave up and went home to use my bottled vanilla. The ice cream tasted great (I added chunks of homemade dark chocolate fudge) and got great reviews from co-workers.
I don't know. It still kind of makes me giggle when I remember that poor guy looking for vanilla beans in with the baked beans. I know that he didn't know better, but still...
2 comments:
I've always wanted to try using real vanilla beans, but I've never seen them in the store. You'll have to let me know where you find them if you ever do.
A friend of mine bought some online, she is going to use them in her cooking and to make her own vanilla extract. Let me send you the link.
You were probably the talk of the store all night after that...the crazy woman looking for vanilla beans. ;-)
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