“Now, you motivate me.” Diggstown (1992)

I am a truly blessed woman with a kitchen as tricked out as anyone could wish. Occasionally, though, I do pine for a new appliance. To be specific, I would love an ice cream maker. I do know some humility and have yet to succumb to excess.

Last month, however, Edible Ohio Valley announced an original recipe competition for ice cream made with seasonal ingredients. Here is my chance to earn my prize: a Cuisinart ICE-30 Ice Cream and Yogurt maker. Oooo.

The question now is how to earn an ice cream maker without owning an ice cream maker. The answer it turns out is easy enough. A favorite video of my 4-year old daughter is Doktor Kaboom’s Try This At Home. Among the many experiments this great “Man of Science” demonstrates is making ice cream with nothing more than two plastic bags, ice, and a bunch of salt. You place 4 parts ice to 1 part salt in one plastic bag, the ingredients for the ice cream in the other bag, and then shake the bag with the ingredients inside of the bag of salt and ice for several minutes. It makes a creamy ice cream... and a decent workout besides to burn back the some of those calories in your creation.

For my original recipe, I whipped together a couple of concoctions: a “peaches, lavender & cheese” cream and a salty carmel. The peach ice cream was incredibly easy and glorious; the salty carmel... well... not so much but still promising. Perhaps if I had the Cuisinart...