The Score

Yard sales are great. Sure, there are always going to be lame ones, but overall a morning spent hunting through local yard sales will yield lots of good stuff. You should also expect one really great deal - the score.

So last Saturday I took the family around to a few community yard sales in the area. We got lots of kids books, a few shirts (tags still on them), DVDs, a couple of toys and games, etc. There was nothing, however, that constituted "the score" until one of the last houses we hit. It was there that we came upon a 1.5 Qt Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker. The no-haggle price for this very lightly used ("just 2 times") piece of gear - $10. SCORE!!! And yes, that includes all the parts, the instruction manual, and even the box.

So yesterday I made my first batch of simple vanilla ice cream. It is delicious! It's just 4 ingredients (heavy cream, milk, sugar, and vanilla extract) and requires to cooking, but it is so very good. You can bet we will be experimenting with flavors and getting fatter throughout the summer.