Time for an installment of Weekend Things:
1. There’s a Los Angeles-based business that sells only pedal-churned ice cream. They’re dishing out frozen goodies that are not only made from organic ingredients, but are also processed entirely by human power.
“…it only takes about 3-4 miles of pedaling (aboard an old Schwinn bike mounted on rollers) to freeze a 5-gallon batch of Mexican chocolate ice cream, salted caramel non-dairy vegan dessert, or strawberry-basil sorbet. If you’re going at a decent clip, that’ll take about 15 minutes.”
They should try my ice cream cream, No-Ice-Cream-Maker Funfetti Cake Batter Golden Oreo Ice Cream
No ice cream maker needed, it’s a no-cook recipe, make it in 10 minutes, and only two main ingredients are required: heavy cream and sweetened condensed milk.
It’s dangerously easy and the best ice cream I’ve ever tasted.
2. I’ve been doing recipe development for Pillsbury and a new post of mine just went live on their site, Strawberry Jam Sweet Rolls with Vanilla Cream Cheese Glaze
3. They’re the shortcut version using pre-made dough of these Strawberry Sweet Rolls with Vanilla Cream Cheese Glaze
4. This Vanilla Bean-Infused Simple Syrup looks like something I could use in just about everything from iced coffee to muffins to coffee cake
“Cane sugar and water infused with pure Madagascar Bourbon and Tahitian vanilla bean seeds, and vanilla extract.”
5. I just got my monthly iHerb order. Their prices are, hands down, the cheapest on my daily probiotics, the nutritional yeast I sprinkle on everything from popcorn to salads to kale chips.
I get all my vitamins and supplements, bulk cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, liquid vanilla stevia drops, bulk white stevia powder, medicinal fancy-grade honey, chia seeds, and so many other things I use every day there.
With free shipping and a discount on top of already rock bottom prices, I always feel like I hit the jackpot.
Enter code AVE630 at checkout to save $5 bucks and go shopping.
6. Polished metal cuff – Punctuated with sparkling Swarovski crystals and bright turquoise cabochons, $465 from Shopbop
I’ve always loved turquoise. Both the stone and the color. And with Swarovski crystals, I wouldn’t say no.
7. Cook’s Illustrated tested popular brands of grocery store black tea. They confined the tests to black tea, or English Breakfast tea, and what follows are the winners and losers.
8. Daiquiris aren’t just on the “specialty cocktail” page at chain restaurants. Done right, they’re a mix of light rum, lime, and sugar. The Hemingway Special was Ernest Hemingway’s favorite daiquiri. If it’s good enough for him, it’s good enough for me.
More ideas in Saveur’s Papa’s Favorite Poison
photo credit Michael Kraus
9. The Best and Worst Nuts for Your Health – “A look at the pros and cons of different nuts, as well as the best and worst products on supermarket shelves today. Of course, you can get too much of these good things: Nuts are high in fat and calories, so while a handful can hold you over until dinner, a few more handfuls can ruin your appetite altogether. And although nuts are a healthy choice by themselves, they’ll quickly become detrimental to any diet when paired with sugary or salty toppings or mixes.”
Best nuts for your diet: Almonds, Cashews, Pistachios
Worst nuts for your diet: Macadamia Nuts, Pecans
Best nuts for your heart: Walnuts
Best nuts for disease prevention: Almonds
Best nuts for your brain: Peanuts
10. I’m glad that peanuts are the best nuts for my brain. I eat way more than my fair share in the form of loose peanuts or ground into homemade peanut butter
Here are 35 Favorite Peanut Butter Recipes
And my Cookbook, Peanut Butter Comfort, has 100+ peanut butter recipes
I recommend putting Peanut Butter Honey Buttermilk Cake with Chocolate-Peanut Butter Streusel on your agenda. It’s good for your brain.
Thanks for the entries in the 25 Restaurant Copycat Recipes and CopyKat Cookbook Giveaway and in the $500 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway
What are your Weekend Things?
Favorite nuts? Tea drinker or favorite tea? Fave Daiquiri? Favorite place to save money on your everyday staples and supplements?
If you’ve made anything, done, seen, or bought anything fabulous recently, feel free to link it up in the comments.
That ice cream is making me want to break my diet! Luckily I went to the gym today, so a couple scoops it is. Cheers
Any chance they could reproduce the ice cream bicycle churning for retail?
Hehehe Love this post averie!
I just pinned your amazing funfetti ice cream, and I seriously need to check out that pedaled ice cream place…you can work off the ice cream BEFORE you eat it? Love that.
You just went into my spam. How dare it put you in there! But you’re out now :)
And thanks for pinning. When I saw a recipe of yours last week? with the frozen coffee/ice cream but without an ice cream maker, I thought wait til she sees this :) The ice cream is insanely good. It’s dangerous. And I don’t often get THAT worked up over my own stuff anymore. But that one was special :)
This post made me happy for so many reasons:
currently obsessed with nutritional yeast – what a great find!
your cake batter ice cream is my sunshine!
twinings english breakfast is my favorite, im a crazy tea drinker, when i went to the twinings headquarters in london it was one of the greatest days of my life!
im obsessed with almonds, now i know its a good thing!
:)
Twinnings HQ? HOW FUN!!!!! Wow, I would have had a field day! I bet the scent alone in there was heavenly!
I’m all about this Vanilla Bean-Infused Simple Syrup…and I agree with you …could use this in everything! I’m loving the cookook, btw! I can’t decide which recipe to make first. I keep it in the truck while I’m being the taxi mom and waiting in the driver seat. I love how you put it together…so perfect!
Taxi mom. Lol and so true. So glad you got it and are trying to decide what to make first – that’s a good problem to have. Sometimes I get books and there’s hardly anything that really grabs me. Glad that’s not the case here. LMK what you try!
I saw your sweet rolls on Pillsbury’s website and I think I might have left a puddle of drool on the keyboard. They look SO GOOD! Congrats on working with them – they are an iconic brand (and apparently they have great taste in sweet rolls).
By the way, thanks for recommending iHerb. I will definitely check that out.
I’m a devoted Amazon shopper. I know….small companies are better, but I do so much online shopping, it is just easier to go to the one place where you can get it all. I get free shipping, too. That said, I do order a few things elsewhere, including nooch. Which reminds me….
I drink tea a ton in the winter, but I do NOT like black tea. I’m picky.
Favorite nuts are definitely pistachios and cashews. And peanuts (which you know aren’t a nut.) Those are really the only ones I like at all.
Pedal churned ice cream! So cool!!
Thanks for reposting those strawberry sweet rolls, Averie, now you reminded me to pin it and make them for an upcoming family gathering!
My husband and I looked at the nuts article and said ‘yes, yes, yes! we’re eating all the right nuts!’ :)
Oh, and appreciate the iHerb link/info- new to me! I’ve used Vitacost.com, which I like a lot for somethings like coconut oil, but iHerb sounds like it’ll be good for a few baking ingredients like extracts that I run out of too quickly.
How was your birthday? Hope you have a good weekend :)
Ok so I do love the strawberry rolls but if I had to pick between those and my overnight cinnamon rolls, I would say go with the cinn rolls. They are just incredibly good! I mean, both are great but I think the cinn rolls win, by a hair. But that could be b/c I am a cinnamon freak :) Thanks for pinning and LMK if you try either!
You will LOVE iherb. I think it’s way better than vitacost. They have more stuff, their prices are better, and their shipping is EXTREMELY fast. I have had orders drag 7-10 days with VC. That is not acceptable to me when it’s vits/supps and I need them!
Thanks so much for responding! Checking out iHerb ASAP, and I, too, am a cinnamon freak :)
Of course the worst nuts are my favorites! ;) And I should make ice cream that way. Lose the weight before I eat the whole batch!
Great thinking. We could also just run down the street clutching Krispy Kremes. At least we’d burn them off. Lol :)
My weekend thing is deciding what to make first out of your cookbook :) It came yesterday and I’ve already read the whole thing! It’s gorgeous and very well done – I adore a cookbook that’s FULL of photos!
Thank you for ordering it and for your support & compliments! A book full of pics is the ONLY way I can deal with cookbooks. I pretty much relegate the non-pic cookbooks I have to the back of my shelves and gorgeous recipes aren’t getting made because of it, but people (me included) like photos! LMK what you make!
Averie, those rolls look incredible! Perfect for a fathers day breakfast! Have a great weekend!
I love that bracelet and have been a fan of turquoise (color and stone) since junior high. It makes me think of the Caribbean so it’s a happy and soothing color. It’s been a while since I’ve indulged my jewelry making hobby, so I was looking through my cabochons yesterday and decided on turquoise and coral for a weekend project. Love your short cut version of the strawberry jam rolls for Pillsbury–sometimes a can of dough is the perfect time saver!
my weekend is a couple of improv shows and a probably higher than usual enjoyment of adult beverages since i have a friend in from out of town-i am always and forever on a Campari kick:)
Enjoy the adult bevs and your friend’s company! Sounds like a fun weekend!
My favorite tea: Yorkshire Gold and Celestial Seasonings Bengal Spice. We’ve been living in S. Korea so no import spices there, but now that we are back to the States I’ll be utilizing the website AND coupon you referenced, Thank you! And hello peanut butter cookbook!
Our adventures as of late? Favorite new sight being our new home, in Hawaii! Most especially, HIKING: https://rlcraboda.blogspot.com/2013/06/maunawili-falls-hiking-oahu.html
you’re going to love iHerb! You will save SO much money!
those hiking pics are stunning!
Thank you so much Averie! And thank you for commenting, it really means a lot that in the busy blogging community, you take the time to do that;)
Glad you appreciate it – I try my best :)
And that is the most glorious ice cream I’ve ever heard of!
thank you!