Back on Monday I tried making some gelato di riso. Or, rice ice cream. It turned out okay. Tastes really good -- basically like frozen rice pudding -- but the rice stayed a little crunchy. Maybe I used the wrong kind of rice. I tried the recipe with arborio. Maybe next time I'll try sushi rice. What I realized when I was taste-testing on Monday was that it's been so long since I tasted rice gelato that I don't clearly remember what it tastes like. I think I'm at least in the ballpark but that's about all I can say. So I'm going to give up on actually trying to re-create the taste memory and just go with trying to come up with something that tastes good.
In other food geek news, awesome article in the NYTimes about Durham's own Scratch. Nice to see them getting more good press. Hope this doesn't mean the lines will get really long again.