Development Week: Ice Cream Sandwiches
Ice cream sandwiches are not particularly common in South Africa, but Americans will know what I'm talking about: a scoop of ice cream, sandwiched between two cookies or brownies. It…
Development Week
One of the questions we get asked all the time is, how many flavours do you make? People are always amazed that we don't have a definitive flavour list or…
Marshmallow Mondays
We have a list on the wall in the kitchen, where we put down things for which we want to develop recipes. Sometimes it's ice cream flavours, but often it's…
Around The Kitchen: Signs and Scribbles
I take a lot of photos of random things I see at Creamery HQ. While trying to sort through my 'random photos' file last week, I realized that a lot…
Granadillas
I'm not much of a granadilla person, really. But the granadilla curd we swirl through our ice cream for Granadilla Choc Chip ice cream has totally converted me. It's tangy,…
My Kitchen for a Can Opener!
I like to describe our commercial kitchen as "small but perfectly formed". When I was planning it last year, I wrote out a long wishlist of things I wanted to…
Graceless Under Fire
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.” -Jean Kerr Marianne and I deal with stress…
A Birthday Tea
We tried something a little new two weeks ago: a birthday ice cream tasting, at our kitchen. The day was so lovely, we set up tables and chairs outside, under…
Down But Not Out
There is very little as sad as an ice cream production kitchen with no churn. Except perhaps the ice cream makers. After last week's post on things not going our…
Photo Shoot
On Saturday we spent several hours in the kitchen, and at our stall at the Neighbourgoods Market, taking product photos. We've been meaning to get some taken a while, but…
One of Those Weeks
It's been one of those weeks. One of our chest freezer's fans split in two, the churn started making similar grinding noises in sympathy, we ran out of eggs,…
Brownie Points
I showed Progress how to bake brownies today. Actually, it sort of started out as a lesson in brownie baking, segued into a lecture on the history of the ice…
Tea for Thought
Last week I was a lucky guest at a High Mountain tea ceremony at O'Ways Teacafe. Nigiro tea merchant Mingwei Tsai spent over two hours taking us through three cuppings…