Are you a boring ice cream person or an adventurous ice cream person? You know, are you the type that strictly sticks with chocolate or vanilla or are you the type that likes their ice cream a little bit more complex and exotic? This recipe is for the people in the latter group.

It's for Roast Plums with Honey and Yogurt Ice Cream, from the book Formulas For Flavor by John Campbell. Keiko at this blog found the recipe, tried it, and says it's quite good. You roast the plums in bay leaves, pink peppercorns, star anise, and vanilla beans. It's served with honey and yogurt ice cream.

Speaking of bay leaves, the cook seems to be very into them, even making Bay Leaf Creme Caramel.

The lovely Keiko on her Nordljus blog has done it again!

Always one with the stunning images she has taken the humble kumquat and created a delicious array of mouthwatering and inspiring delicacies. There is a cake mixing the kumquat with earl grey tea followed by some scrummy looking tarts that look well worth the trouble of squeesing each fruit to make a curd filling. Finally there is a puff pastry tart filled, of course, with kumquats.

I wonder if Keiko will have the same effect on sales of kumquats as Delia once had with cranberries...

[Because it is such a good post I have added it to the new netscape, so you could go there and vote for it]

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