Yesterday after work was my first trip to the farmer's market at South Station. Like last year I gravitated to the bread (When Pigs Fly) and the fruit and vegetables (Kimballs Fruit Farm). I was looking for zucchini with the expectation that I was a bit early for that and left with a loaf of curry pumpkin bread and a quart of beautiful tiny strawberries.
Last night I took the strawberries a whack of sugar and some balsamic vinegar and made frozen yogurt. I don't normally make most fruit flavors for ice cream or frozen yogurt, because I find the ice cold berries a bit hard on my teeth. The initial assessment of the ice cream was pretty tasty, but I'm not sure if the balsamic vinegar note shows up. We, of course, were testing the batch by licking the dasher and eating the bowl scrapings after I had put all of the frozen yogurt into a tupperware in the freezer.
I think Saturday morning I will make the mix for my next ice cream, which is probably going to be root beer flavor. I plan on steeping the different herbs found in natural and homemade root beer in hot milk and sugar, then following the custard method for making the ice cream. I'm not sure how much of the herbs I should use, because when the mixture gets cold a lot of the flavor is lost to the taste buds. But even if I have a bit of a miss on the mix, it should still be delicious!
My sweater is still going pretty well. I keep doing the row count of how much I have left and I am at 28 rows in the yoke. Of course, I'm a little off on row gauge, so I might fudge in an extra row or two (I already did in the previous section, because I wanted it to match the first rows I did in the yoke better) just to get a bit of extra length. 28 rows is very doable over the weekend, especially if it rains enough over the weekend that I forgo going out a lot each day.
