Pistachio Gelato from David Lebovitz

Never happened. I got sidelined with a bunch of other projects. However, I do have, seriously

10 pounds of chocolate at the ready! I need to carve out some time to play in my own kitchen for a while...

 
Has anyone else tried David's peanut butter/chocolate ice cream

I tried it this weekend and it ends up with a chalky taste to us. The recipe specifies dutch process cocoa, so I used Droste. No eggs and not much cream, so it scoops nicely, but melts incredibly fast.

The first bite gives the chalky hit, then the peanut butter kicks in, then the chocolate.

We were forced to drizzle on raspberry sauce to confuse the tongue and convert the taste from chalky to sublime. Taste buds got an immediate hit of raspberry, then peanut butter, then chocolate.

okay, we threw in some sliced bananas to justify a fruit serving.

 
Sue, what cocoa did you use? So...no chalky taste, huh? I can't imagine

what gave us that, because the other ingredients seem innocent enough.

Does yours melt quickly?

 
Thanks sue...that's good to know. I did sub a bit (1/4 C) of evap milk

so I now wonder if that was the culprit? I assumed dry = chalky, so the cocoa got the blame.


Well, this just means I'll be FORCED to try it again.

 
Maybe I love ice cream so much that my palette isn't as sophisticated as your's!

I almost always seem to have Dutch on hand so I think the flavor might be more intense???? I know you can sub the two kinds of cocoa but you do get a different result.
Wish I could be of more help!

 
Oh susie q, don't go worrying about your palette....

The tongue can taste 5 flavors: salt, sour, sweet, bitter and umami, that funky new one the Japanese added for savoriness.

But personally, I'd dedicate 100% of my tongue's raison d'être to ice cream.

 
well, obviously my tongue can't tell "chalky". I came home, tasted it again

and immediately got hit with "evaporated milk" taste. Apparently my brain didn't want to go to there before, when it could just blame the cocoa.

 
there's a 6th marilyn...

midadi, which balances umami like mitarzan balances ujane.

 
Back
Top