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title: Goes together like ice cream and asparagus
author: George Mandis <george@mand.is>
date: 2014-06-22
tags: post, post, ice cream, sunday, durian
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<p>I've been a little obsessed with two things this week: roasted asparagus (with garlic and olive oil) and ice cream. Though not together.</p>
<p>Now I'm reminded of a Far Side comic.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1226" src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/georgemandis/media/we-all-cuss-for-asparagus.jpg" alt="we-all-cuss-for-asparagus" width="371" height="480" /></p>
<p>Apologies to <a href="http://www.thefarside.com/">Gary Larson</a> for blatant copyright infringement. I wasn't sure how else to reference this comic, but I bet it's somewhere in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0740721135/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0740721135&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=snapwebl-20&amp;linkId=3C2UU4QAZM6UYE3L">The Complete Far Side: 1980-1994</a>.</p>
<p>I touched on it a little bit yesterday with my list recapping the <a title="Things I enjoyed this week (June 15th)" href="/2014/06/things-i-enjoyed-this-week-june-15th/">things I've enjoyed this week</a> but I've been enjoying making simple, healthy things in the kitchen. This past week it was an assortment of roasted vegetables and now a 120-hour soup that I'll probably write about later in the week if nothing else more interesting happens.</p>
<p>Oh, and there's also been ice cream. My interest in cooking seems to coincide with summer, for reasons I'm not entirely clear on <span class='footnote'>(Maybe it's simply that the things I enjoy cooking are more readily available in the summer. And that I secret want to cook everything outside, on an open flame, on a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrilla">parrilla</a>.)</span>. The season also rekindles another interest that I'm 100% clear on: ice cream.</p>
<p>Because I managed to travel in a way that almost entirely skipped winter last year I found myself eating more ice cream than usual. It might've helped that helado is also effectively the third most-popular religion in South America, as far as I can tell. I particularly remember a lot of dulce de leche ice cream (Argentina), durian ice cream (Malaysia &amp; Hong Kong) and green tea ice cream (Basically... everywhere in Asia, as best I can recall.).</p>
<p>Today I ended the week properly with one of my favorite local ice cream snacks: <a href="http://www.rubyjewel.com/ice-cream-sandwiches/ice-cream-sandwiches-flavors/">Ruby Jewel ice cream sandwiches</a>. A happy union of two of my favorite things: ice cream and cookies. I tried the chocolate and salted caramel, which was quite good, but my favorite might be lemon and lavender.</p>
<p>Mmm.</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>To summer and ice cream!</p>