August 12, 2013

Sweet Blackberry Cheesecake Ice Cream

Name: Sweet Blackberry Cheesecake Ice Cream
Yield: 3-4 servings
Ingredients: 1 cup blackberries, fresh or frozen; 2 Tbs light brown sugar; 2-3 Tbs water; 8oz (220g) cream cheese, softened; 2/3 cup cream; 1/3 cup light brown sugar; Zest of ½ orange; ¼ teaspoon vanilla; Pinch of sea salt

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My mother visits me from time to time. She doesn’t live in Buenos Aires, so she stays at my place a lot when she’s in town, and of course our personalities are put to the test, to say the least, though mine much more than hers. She has, like most mothers, a visceral endurance when it comes to her children’s quirks/obsessions/intolerances/lack of patience/dubious humor/crappy awakenings.

So I’m learning to just let go of the little things, as much as my genetic coding allows. I will get to the sweet blackberry cheesecake ice cream recipe, don’t worry. I made it especially for her.

Take the last time she was here.

Not long after waking up, she started looking for a pair of socks, already in a crappy mood (hers) because she had a pimple (I admit it was getting quite big and as a woman she resented it ferociously) that just wanted to keep on growing. Yes a pimple, so superficial I know, but think of it as a symbolism if you want.

Anyway, the pair of red socks was nowhere to be found. I had heard her talking to herself while wandering around the house looking for them, and this was very out of place with my usual just me and my coffee mornings, which I love, so I got up and thought that two pairs of eyes would find the goddamn pair of red socks in no time. I mean, bright red, how can they get lost so easily.

I started looking at the obvious places, like inside the fridge, her purse, my bedroom… bright red socks she hadn’t been able to find for the last twenty minutes where not on the pile of clothes in the chair or beside her bed, that was a given. But suddenly, all the odd places covered in the search, there really was nowhere else to look for them.

So I casually said, ‘maybe you put them in your pocket or something’. When she looked down at her pant’s pockets, a red thread peaked out, from inside her shoes. She was wearing them. That’s my mom.

So the only thing to do was go into the kitchen and make her something rich and decadent.We still have many years together ahead of us, and I don’t see it getting any less ridiculous.

Do you like cheesecake? Blackberries?

This ice cream is as easy as reading the title, the only downside is waiting before churning, and then after. But if you shove the mixture into popsicle molds, oh! sweet summer blackberry cheesecake ice cream paletas in almost not time.

No bake cheesecake is a snap to prepare, and this is exactly that, with added berries that are first cooked with a tiny bit of light brown sugar. And quite perfect for summer, since it solidifies a lot. So it will hold up to the heat better than others, like the tangerine cointreau sorbet for instance.