ice cream! only just the beginning...

On Father's Day I suggested we grab some ice cream at Anderson's. I kept carrying on and on about how delicious this custard ice cream in WNY is (I guess they are renowned for it kinda like Buffalo Wings, Beef on Weck & Peanut Stick). When I was there last time I saw they make a sugar free custard soft serve so that sealed the deal for Nuno. Lucky for me, the Anderson's closest to the Lake Effect Diner had Banana as their flavour on Father's Day. Not only that, every dad recieves a free Kit Kat Arctic Swirl (like a DQ Blizzard).

Here it is in all it's glory.

Katie got a cone and couldn't finish it.

There was a Target right next door to Anderson's and they had ice cream machines on sale. So I snapped one right up. I've been wanting to make ice cream for weeks now which was brought on by all these plentiful strawberries. Even though I live a hop, skip and a jump away from Avondale Dairy Bar, I really don't like their ice cream. It's friggin' so expensive! I shutter when they WEIGH your treat to determine a price - which always works out to $7 on my most conservative orders. Anderson's is two bucks, richer and creamier. Arg! Sorry, had to get that off my chest. Anyways...

I started with Strawberry Frozen Yogurt. I had all the ingredients right away in my fridge to make it. The homemade ice cream guru right now is David Lebovitz who's taken the culinary literary world by storm with, many books, one of which is "Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas and Sweet Accompaniments". Through his blog I found the recipe I used to make this frozen yogurt.

Just a couple small revisions to this. I strained low fat yogurt and was left with only half a cup, so I made the rest with half & half. This worked perfectly because it supplied the fat that wasn't present in the yogurt. The strawberries are from Bry-Anne Farms at the St. Catharines Farmer's Market.

Here's my dessert for lunch today. My dad was around Niagara-On-The-Lake and brought around the first picking of cherries from a local stand. They aren't quite ready to be made into jam, but are nice for snacking.

Ted's Famous Hot Dogs and Anderson's Custard Ice Cream

I used to always blog about eating at Mighty Taco in WNY, but I found a new passion, Ted's Famous Hot Dogs and Anderson's Custard Ice Cream. These two places are where the locals eat and are institutions among the B-low crew. Yesterday we spent the day shopping at Target and grabbed lunch. I'm in shock I managed to buy a new yellow polka dot bikini and eat ice cream in the same trip but it worked.

Both locations in Amherst are side-by-side. First up was a dog at Ted's. This place is very Weber's like. When you get out of the car you're hit with a char-broiled smell and picnic tables. I swore off hot dogs long ago but I just could not resist caving at least once a year.

Next stop was Anderson's Custard Ice Cream. Anderson's offers chocolate and vanilla soft serve custard ice cream, but keeps an online calendar of their 'specials of the day' where there is an ever changing line-up of flavours amongst all their locations. I've tried Chocolate Orange Marnier and Cinnamon. My next trip will hopefully align with Banana!!

These two places are so perfectly summer-licious and a bang for your buck with lunch's total just over $5!