Sweet!

Lou: Food: My favorite sweet here (after ice cream) is dulce de leche (especially with some chocolate!) Dulce de leche like a caramel made from sweetened milk--not just sugar. I’ve discovered that some brands are better than others. One brand that I bought was more like regular caramel; it crystalized into a crust on top & just didn’t taste as good. A good brand stays creamy and is awesome just by itself! Since the main use of dulce de leche is as a cookie filling, I really didn’t think about buying any—that was until we had a house guest that had some & just ate it out of the container! I tried it by itself & was hooked. I’ve thought about putting it on icecream, but so far, I’ve bought ½ chocolate & ½ dulce de leche flavored icecream (its not swirls like you would get from kemps—the icecream itself is flavored & so good!) or “fruits of the forest” with raspberry & blackberry swirls. So, I haven’t gotten around to trying it as a topping.

Ice cream in the supermarket has pretty close to normal flavors. Neopolitan (thought they don’t call it that—that’s a kind of pizza), chocolate, strawberry, cookies & cream. But they also have lemon. In the artesenal ice cream shops they probably have 20-30 flavors including some sorbets, ice creams with any kind of fruit, some with raisins, and usually 5-10 different versions of chocolate. We’ve gotten cones from time to time & they give a tiny little plastic sampling spoon with which to eat it. I think eating the cone is optional. There are a few different cone options, differences in sizes of course, but there is also a pointed tip cone that has two little cone cups on each side of the center. Better support for three flavors! You can buy containers of it, but I haven’t checked to see how expensive that is—I think I’ll do that soon.

My favorite cheap cookies (one is raspberry-lemon) and some mandarinas from the tree of a nice fellow we know named Pepe. These mandarines had a million seeds, but were so sweet & sour they tasted like a sweet tart!