I decided to make meatless monday a little different this week. In honor of the ice cream store reopening in Charles Village, I decided to write a bit about their special ice cream -- VEGETABLE Ice cream.
You’re definitely thinking that vegetable ice cream sounds terrible, but it’s worth a try! It really tastes like a slightly modified vanilla. I honestly like it. Dominion, the ice cream store, was featured on the food network on a show where two teams had to complete several food related tasks in Baltimore and one of them was matching the ice cream to the vegetable it’s made of. This was definitely the hardest task the contestants had to perform, because the vegetable taste is really feint. (The others include picking ripe strawberries near the chesepeake bay, removing the crab meat from the crabs to make a crab cake -- a difficult task as my sister’s boyfriend SS can tell you-- and preparing muscles for the famous restaurant, Bertha’s Muscles.) If you needed further convincing, I asked my baby cousin (3 years old) what kind of ice cream he wanted me to bring over for him and he actually requested the vegetable kind.
Dominion Ice cream uses fresh vegetables to make tomato, sweet potato, spinach, carrot, butternut squash, sweet corn, cucumber, beet, and red cabbage ice cream.
I thought Dominion was pretty unique (and it definitely is) but you don’t have to be in Baltimore to eat vegetable ice cream. I found in Newsweek Magazine from July 2011, that there are unique ice cream stores all over the place- here are some examples
Sweet Corn Shake Shack, NYC
Rice and Beans Puerto Rico
Tequila Margarita Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Avocado Skokle, IL
Laevndar Marscapone Princeton, NJ
Lobster Bar Harbor, ME
Rosemary Olive Oil Atlanta, GA
Try something new today!
You’re definitely thinking that vegetable ice cream sounds terrible, but it’s worth a try! It really tastes like a slightly modified vanilla. I honestly like it. Dominion, the ice cream store, was featured on the food network on a show where two teams had to complete several food related tasks in Baltimore and one of them was matching the ice cream to the vegetable it’s made of. This was definitely the hardest task the contestants had to perform, because the vegetable taste is really feint. (The others include picking ripe strawberries near the chesepeake bay, removing the crab meat from the crabs to make a crab cake -- a difficult task as my sister’s boyfriend SS can tell you-- and preparing muscles for the famous restaurant, Bertha’s Muscles.) If you needed further convincing, I asked my baby cousin (3 years old) what kind of ice cream he wanted me to bring over for him and he actually requested the vegetable kind.
Dominion Ice cream uses fresh vegetables to make tomato, sweet potato, spinach, carrot, butternut squash, sweet corn, cucumber, beet, and red cabbage ice cream.
I thought Dominion was pretty unique (and it definitely is) but you don’t have to be in Baltimore to eat vegetable ice cream. I found in Newsweek Magazine from July 2011, that there are unique ice cream stores all over the place- here are some examples
Sweet Corn Shake Shack, NYC
Rice and Beans Puerto Rico
Tequila Margarita Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Avocado Skokle, IL
Laevndar Marscapone Princeton, NJ
Lobster Bar Harbor, ME
Rosemary Olive Oil Atlanta, GA
Try something new today!
Thought of you when I ate green pea ice cream in St. Lucia. it was very good, but the fresh coconut ice cream was the best. Had the coconut ice cream three times!
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