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National Ice Cream Month, Day 24

Allison
Tom and I went to Scoop Du Jour in Madison Park, where they service Olympic Mountain Ice Cream. I had a double scoop of Kentucky Pie (chocolate ice cream with Oreos and pralines) and the not-at-creatively named Vanilla Salted Caramel Swirl Fudge Brownie. T had the Kentucky Pie. The ice cream was good. I didn’t sample anything else there, though they had some interesting-looking soft serve frozen yogurt flavors.
We ate our cones outside, near a couple who were having cones with their young grandson. After a while, we heard the grandson’s little voice exclaim, “I ate it all, all the ice cream AND THE CONE!” His grandparents cheered and they walked to the park. Remember when we used to be praised for eating a lot of food? You go, kiddo. Eat it all.
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National Ice Cream Month, Day 23

Allison
Coconut and Mora (blackberry) at Mora on Bainbridge. With Christine and Carolyn! We sampled nearly every flavor between the three of us. I went for the blackberry because it’s their signature flavor. I sampled some caramel chocolate, dulce de leche, Italian chocolate, mojito, and chocolate peanut butter.
 
Here Carolyn has Mora and Sabayan, Christine has dulce de leche and banana.
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National Ice Cream Month, Day 22

Allison

Ben & Jerry’s Coconut Seven Layer Bar at Mary Kaye’s house. This is a non-dairy ice cream made with almond milk and almost everything else thrown in: caramel, chocolate, graham crackers, and I don’t know what else. As with most Ben & Jerry’s pints, I could eat this in one sitting. What?

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National Ice Cream Month, Day 20

Allison

Homemade Banana! This is another favorite. I saw it on The Kitchn a couple summers ago: chop a banana, freeze the pieces, then blend them.

 

 

There’s a surprising number of variations to this recipe (ripeness, how small to chop it, how long to blend it, what to add), but I like the simple, short version.

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National Ice Cream Month, Day 19

Allison
DICK’S HOT FUDGE SUNDAE! I’ve been looking forward to this one since Day 2. The Dick’s in my neighborhood is the best and if you don’t agree you can take that up with my friends Sir Mix-A-Lot, Macklemore, and Hollis.


One of the reasons I will always love Dick’s is that they pay well and have forever given their employees vacation time, insurance, tuition reimbursement, paid time for volunteering, and 401(k) with match.

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National Ice Cream Month, Day 18

Allison
Day 18, Earlier in the day, I was at a coffee shop in Fremont when a little birdie flitted onto my table.

Aww! Look at him perched up on my screen. He’s so fearless.
He hopped over, closer to me. So sweet. Does he want a little pet? Can I pet him? Do birds have rabies?
Jerk!
So that’s the kind of day I was having when I moseyed over to D’Ambrosio Gelateria in Ballard. The couple in line next to me got one cone and said, “we’ll share that,” so I’m pretty sure they haven’t farted in front of each other yet.
After sampling a few flavors, I selected Sicilian Pistachio and Caramel Fig.

 

These flavors are AMAZING. I’ve never had such a good pistachio thing, and I’m including actual pistachios in that.

 

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National Ice Cream Month, Day 17

Allison
Day 17, S’more Parfait at Trove, in what used to be Brocklind’s Costume & Bridal Store on Capitol Hill. Trove is a Korean BBQ place. I’ve actually never had Korean barbecue before so I didn’t know it had anything to do with soft serve ice cream.
 
This glass was full of chocolate ice cream, graham crackers, brownie fudge chunks, and a toasted marshmallow. The spot where they have the soft serve machines is made to look like an ice truck. I guess during certain hours they serve from the “truck” but that wasn’t open when I was there.
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National Ice Cream Month, Day 16

Allison
Day 16 aka National Ice Cream Day. Christine and I went over to West Seattle to try Husky Deli. I got Horchata. I also sampled Swiss Chocolate Orange (good) and Raspberry Decadence (very good).
We headed over not knowing that today was also the West Seattle Street Fair Festival Outdoor Carnival Sidewalk Sale. The line for ice cream went into the back of the store, it was at least 50 people long.
I heard one woman say, “this is the only thing I will wait in line for.” I’m not sure how that works, I mean, have she ever not had a line at the grocery store? Does she abandon full carts or does she put everything back on the shelves, “I only wait in line at the ice cream counter at Husky Deli!”
The ice cream is worth the wait but not so great I’d forsake all other lines.
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National Ice Cream Month, Day 15

Allison

Tom and I stopped for soft serve chocolate-vanilla swirl from Little Coney at Golden Gardens Park.

While we were waiting, I showed a man how to adjust the brightness on his cell phone camera. He marveled at the difference and shook my hand and said, “have nice dinner on me tonight!” If you know of a restaurant that accepts second-hand handshakes as payment, let me know.