I’ve wanted an ice cream maker for awhile.  Whenever I would see them making homemade ice cream on Iron Chef I’d feel jealousy.  But I also worried it would be something I’d get and use once, and then it would sit in my kitchen collecting dust and taking up space.

However, when my mom came to visit with a Crate and Barrel gift card and said she’d get me one, I jumped at the chance. And I am having a blast trying out recipes.  So far I’ve only had one mishap with green tea ice cream, and that was because I overheated the milk.  But everything else has been great and I love making flavors that you can’t buy in stores.

So far I’ve made root beer sorbet, green tea ice cream, watermelon sorbet, blueberry lemon verbena ice cream and my latest endeavor, apple sorbet. But believe me, there is much, much more to come!

I took some more photos during the process which you can check out on Flickr.