My love affair with ice cream has been going on since before I was old enough to remember. How do I know if I was not old enough to remember? Because I'm sure my parents gave me a taste from a very early age and because how can anyone not love ice cream?
I love it so much I'm writing a blog post about it.
I don't love all flavors of ice cream. Some flavors I won't even try. Mostly because I'm quite satisfied with the flavors I love.
- chocolate
- vanilla
- strawberry
- peach
- cherry vanilla
- butter pecan
- praline
I love each flavor by itself. I love vanilla in a coke float. I love any of it in a banana split. Or a hot fudge sundae.
I have the most wonderful memories of home churned ice cream during the summers when I was a kid. It seemed to take forever but it was so worth it! Peach was my absolute favorite homemade ice cream.
I remember my dad making it on the back steps and letting me try my hand at churning. I much preferred the eating to the churning. I remember my granddaddy churning ice cream on the porch. I remember bunches of us churning it at family reunions at my great grandfather's house.
I remember there were always loads of us around whenever the grown ups pulled out the ice cream churn.
Ice cream reminds me of--
- the sounds of all the kids at the neighborhood pool--of kids having fun... laughter, shrills of delight, splashing, Marco! Polo!
- us kids running around the backyard playing Freeze Tag or chasing lightning bugs.
- waking up at my grandparents' house to the chirping of the birds.
- the squeaking and slamming of the screen door.
- bees buzzing past my head, barking dogs
- approaching thunder storms
- the ice cream truck...
It's a shame. Publix has this fabulous organic chocolate...Oh my.
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