Cute. Getting my friend's cat to stand on two feet will result in a blood shed for me.

Well may be if the ice-cream is creamy enough, she'll let me touch her.

Haha I got my cat to do this one + today while lying out in the sun he got a couple licks off my cream bar or whatever theyre called. Home made ice cream is too much work to be worth it imo.

Lol @ [om nom nom]!

I have an icecream maker and I love to make my own vanillabean icecream ala Alton Brown. I haven't made it in a while though, maybe I should!

Yes, I clicked on the link just to get a better look at the kitty.

OK, that cat looks completely embarrased/depressed in that photo. But don't take my word for it:
That's just wrong. Help a kitten out.

Why s ths n Cnsmrst?

Also,

It is the OP's fault. I just make all my ice cream at home, so i never have to deal with this problem.

@MostlyHarmless: Do you have a HOA? Then it's entirely YOUR fault.

@MostlyHarmless: i grow my own ice cream plants in the garden from wild, sustainable seeds gathered by hand on the night of the new moon. so there!

The 5 minute ice cream is sort of a smoothie gone wrong. I discovered this by accident using frozen banana slices to make a smoothie and ended up turning it into soft serve ice cream. It was really good. 1 cup milk, two handfuls of frozen banana slices. I added caramel coffee syrup.

@catastrophegirl - sometimes makes typos and doesn't care: Yeah, but you probably use metal gardening tools to dig the earth for the seeds. Anyone with even a little intelligence knows that the real way to do it is to use chopsticks.

@MostlyHarmless: gosh no, i use my chopsticks for eating the ice cream. thanks for the tip

i learned everything i need to know about making ice cream from watching iron chef. because seriously, there's nothing like pike eel and peach ice cream. in the world. on purpose.

actually way back before i got thrown out of girl scouts we learned to make ice cream in two different sized coffee cans. ingredients in the inner one, seal it. ice and salt in the outer one, seal it. turn on its side and roll it back and forth.

And if you visit the Beaver Lake Nature Center near Baldwinsville, NY, you can go out and pick your own wild berries, then return to the Center and make homemade ice cream. Beautiful scenery too.

Mm ice cream. I'm about to get some cookies and cream right now. Good stuff.

If you want to make something more useful than icecream at home, here is a youtube video about how easy butter is to make.

@valarmorghulis: it's easier than that. i accidentally made butter trying to whip cream with a stick blender. in under a minute. mmmm, tasty

I'm just finishing a marathon session of making 17 different icecreams and sorbets for my girlfriend's birthday party. I've been kind of obsessing over every detail and ingredient for about 3 weeks, and I'm finalizing the last two tonight. It'll be kind of a relief when the party's over; it's down right exhausting thinking of everything in terms of how it'd taste frozen.

The current flavor list is peach, orange, coconut, mango, pineapple raspberry and tomato sorbets, and vanilla, strawberry, blueberry, peanut butter, thai iced tea, chocolate, and maple bacon icecream.

@ludwigk: I will offer my first born child for an explanation in small words of how to make thai iced tea ice cream.

@ludwigk: You are probably the best boyfriend ever. I hope she remembers this in the long run. ^__^ Have fun

I'm not sure. Does Captain Duvel Moneycat have competition, or has he just found his one true love?

@catastrophegirl - sometimes makes typos and doesn't care: Eat quickly, is all I can say.

@catastrophegirl - sometimes makes typos and doesn't care: That's funny. In the Boy Scouts, we learned that same trick. Only with Brownies in the inner can.

@Kimaroo - 20% More Kitty Added!:

Alton is the shit! Viva La Food Network!

@catastrophegirl - sometimes makes typos and doesn't care:

I remember (although I'd forgotten until 10 seconds ago) making butter at school when I was about 5 or 6 years old. The teacher put some cream in a jar with a bit of salt, then each kid in the class took it in turns to shake the jar like crazy for a few minutes. All day long. At the end of the day we ate crackers spread with the butter we'd made.

@Telekinesis123: Me Too. I want to get my cat to do that.

@the_gank: Try fishing hooks and thin-gauge wire.

@Diana Booth: Although, for obvious reasons, I request that the legendary Starbucks Perfect Oatmeal story have the OM NOM NOM tag added, retroactively.

@Cantras: I tried to keep notes, but this is what I've got for thai iced tea:

Thai Iced Tea Ice Cream

3/4 cup Thai Iced Tea leaves
2 cup water
1/2 cup palm sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt

Boil Tea in water for 10 minutes. Strain tea leaves out. Return the tea to a boil and reduce tea to 1 cup volume.

Combine with Custard Base.

Custard Base:

4 Large Egg Yolks
1/4 cup Sugarugar
1.5 cups Whole Milk
1.5 cups Heavy Cream

Combine 4 egg yolks and sugar. Stir to incorporate.

Heat Cream and Milk to 175 F.

Temper Yolks then incorporate into the cream mixture. Heat to 181, then cool in water bath.

I'm using this thai tea, although any leaf thai tea would probably do: [www.redblossomtea.com]

@catastrophegirl - sometimes makes typos and doesn't care: I'm going to assume the more interesting story is why you got kicked out of Girl Scouts.

@subtlefrog: anybody remember friendship pins? take big safety pins and put lots of sparkly plastic beads on them and then stick them through your clothes or keds [it had to be keds.]
well i tried to pierce my nose with them. it didn't go over well in a room full of 7 year olds.

When I've made ice cream at home it always turns out to be pretty good but really expensive. Even more expensive than the awesome ice cream from the local dairy that costs $8. So I stopped bothering.

Call me gizmonic, but I've found the key to ice-cream scooping is to get a proper ice-cream scoop. The Oxo with a little beak works like an ice cream dream. When I think of all the bent steel spoons of my childhood...

@catastrophegirl - sometimes makes typos and doesn't care: Along the same lines of using Brownies, above, I substituted "kids" for "Keds" for my badge-pinning ventures.
Predictably, that didn't go over well, either. *grumble grumble* Visionary-blind troop leaders *grumble grumble*

@Trai_Dep: On a more serious note, I've trained my Bengal to not only run down the stairs to greet me, but he even raises himself on two legs to accept my welcoming pat/head rub.
I'm still working on getting him to fix me a frosty martini, however.

@ludwigk: I will use this! Thanks for posting, you sound like a fabulous boyfriend to have!

Kitty is please let me have it, dont make me beg!

@Trai_Dep: too bad they didn't have merit badges for body piercing. i wonder if they ever will....

@catastrophegirl - sometimes makes typos and doesn't care: Odds are, the Berlin Boy Scouts nab that honor first.

Borrowing my parents ice cream maker, I've had a chance to make the following delectable desserts over the past few weeks:

Coffee ice cream (my favorite)
Watermelon sorbet
Nectarine ice cream
Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream
Kiwi ice cream

While it has been fun to try out different flavors, I don't think there is a real savings compared to just buying it at the store when it is on sale (assuming that's the only factor we're considering).

@Summermodoin'_GitEmSteveDave:I thought the same thing. Tha cat does not look amused by the ice cream.
Plus the picture you posted looks like my old cat I had to give to a friend then he was promply stolen (I think otherwise, but was told stolen to spare my feelings).

Have you ever been to WV? Where were you on some night 2.5 years ago?

@MostlyHarmless: don't forget, If you didn't crave more ice cream than you make in a month you wouldn't be in this mess. I promptly make and eat as much ice cream as I want, before the end of the month.

Clicked the link to see a bigger pic of the kitty. Totally worth it!

Ah, excellent, thank you...been meaning to research ice cream makers because my diet can take a bit of ice cream but not loaded with HFCS and all of those other corn-derived fake ingredients. And with Costco's giant flats of fresh strawberries and blueberries, I've got a-hankerin' for dessert...

@bohemian: Oh nom. Good tip, thanks.

@catastrophegirl - sometimes makes typos and doesn't care: Y'all have the best stories.

I didn't see this on the weekend...not only is that an awesomely cute kitteh, but I'm loving the "Om Nom Nom" tag. :)

@Kimaroo - 20% More Kitty Added!:

+1 I want to try his banana ice cream recipe, but modify it so that it's actually a chocolate covered banana w/ peanuts ice cream.
I love the way he views food as science. It really makes you a better cook to know why foods do the things they do. I've learned a lot from him!

@bohemian:

Excellent tip. The frozen bananas add the coldness + are a binding agent. I just saw Alton Brown make banana ice cream and he said that you can make the ice cream w/ a blender if you don't have an ice cream maker.