Black Pepper Ice Cream

So I'm here by myself watching/listening to Iron Chef America on the food network. The special ingredient is lobster and it's a French chef against Iron Chef Morimoto, who specializes in Japenese cuisine. It's a good battle.

I wonder if they will make lobster ice cream. Probably. Someone always winds up making a really weird flavor of ice cream that the judges usually hate. They're given an ingredient like sea urchin or jerusalem artichoke and expected to make 5 dishes including a dessert. Actually, I sense an undercurrent in the culinary world to create savory ice creams anyway. I've heard that black pepper ice cream is good, but I haven't tried it.

Hippy music is playing in the background. Words like lobster medallions, tomalley, stock pot, lemon verbena are rising above the music. Phish is going bananas covering Prince's Purple Rain via Lime Wire.

Life is good in our house.

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Rob and Sadie went to see the Nets this evening. He got a ticket for free and best friend is in AC. So I get a night to myself and everyone is happy.

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I've been strongly trying to convince Rob to switch our family website over to a blog format, which he has been slowly warming up to. This way, we could both add to it, contribute to it, daily. It would be kind of nice to update it weekly and just let the grandfolks and others know what we've been up to. Also, to receive their feedback and ideas via comments would be really great too.

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Back to the Iron Chef, the first chef, Morimoto, made vanilla ice cream with lobster sauce. The French chef made lobster ceviche with olive oil ice cream. Talk about yummy! These dishes wouldn't go very far in our house. Too bad...