archinonlive has been saying that he wants an ice cream maker since I moved in (possibly longer than that, but I have no data points from then). On Friday the local store that sometimes carries the
one he'd decided he wanted finally had one in stock, so he brought it home after work. So we put the freezing part into the freezer and took off to visit his parents, who live about an hour south of here.
They have a lovely home, which the family built themselves, and
archinonlive did the drawing of the plans. They live on the shore near the town of
PiteƄ on a lovely forested block of land. The near by homes are only summer homes, so it is nice and quiet there. They have a variety of buildings on their property. The main house consists of a a huge living room which fades into kitchen on one end, their bedroom, and a large bathroom complete with a large whirl-pool style bathtub. The second house is used as his mother's office for her business--it has a room that is her dedicated office, a small area that looks like a living room, but is now contains the desk for her employee, a bathroom and sauna, and upstairs are four small bedrooms all equipped with bunk beds, most of which are double bed on the bottom, single on the top. This comes in handy when their kids and their partners are home because there are five of them, three of whom have children (no that isn't enough rooms for everyone when they all gather, but the motor home is also a good sleeping space and it doesn't happen so often that they are all home at once since three of them live down south).
We stayed over on Friday and I am pleased to report that while I am still a long way off of speaking Swedish, I was able to understand far more of the conversation than even a couple of weeks ago when they visited us. We borrowed a stack of children's books for me to read and continue learning.
Saturday afternoon was gaming, so we didn't get to try out the ice cream maker till Saturday evening rather late. Needless to say by the time it was made it was too late for me to be eating, so as soon as I finished my bowl of museli this morning I had to try some. For the first batch we made a point of trying to follow one of the recipes that came with the machine, just to see how it comes out so that we will know what to tweak next time to make it better. Even so I think the result is much better than store-bought ice cream.
Just for my records here is a description of what we did and how it came out.
( Vanilla Ice Cream attempt #1 )