Frozen yogurt is another favorite summer flavor. Frozen yogurt has a flavor that is similar to that of ice cream or sherbet, but it’s not as rich. It is much lighter tasting, and the flavors are usually as abundant as the flavors of ice cream - you’ll find vanilla frozen yogurt, chocolate frozen yogurt, strawberry frozen yogurt, and everything in between. What draws people to frozen yogurt is that it’s usually seen as a much healthier alternative to ice cream as it is much lower in fat.
There is a pretty good frozen yogurt recipe here. Basically, the recipe involves using vanilla, milk, sugar, gelatin, salt, corn syrup, and of course plain yogurt. You cook some of the ingredients, let them cool, combine the rest, chill them, then pour into an ice cream machine and freeze. The recipe above gives you the specifics.
We’ve already discussed Classic Ice Cream Flavors, so let’s discuss some weird ice cream flavors. Here are some of the weirdest flavors of ice cream I’ve seen….and most of them are Japanese ice creams! Seems they have the most unusual flavors….
1. Octopus Ice Cream - A Japanese specialty, octopus ice cream is an ice cream flavor that will not appeal to everyone. Part delicacy, part weirdness, octopus ice cream has to be number one on this list!
2. Bacon and Egg Ice Cream - Yes, this one is true - I am not making this up. Apparently some British restaurant named The Fat Duck serves it.
3. Chicken Wing Ice Cream - Another Japanese specialty - ice cream that actually has the flavor of fried chicken wings. MMMmmmm…
4. Eel Ice Cream - Yes, another Japanese flavor!
5. Wasabi Ice Cream - Japanese of course. A tangy-wasabi flavored ice cream.
What is flavor exactly and how do you taste?
Flavor is a “taste;” it is a substance that gives a particular sensory perception to your mouth. Your mouth, which contains thousands of taste buds will sense the particular flavor of which you are eating, the taste buds will then send out the signal and you will “taste” what you taste. Your nose often works in conjunction with your sense of taste…next time you have a cold or are sick you will notice that food and flavors do not taste the same as when you are feeling well.
Frozen fruit smoothies recipes here for your review right in time for summer! The fruit is the main ingredient of the fruit smoothie - and because of this, smoothies come in as many flavors as there are fruits.
In order to change it up a little bit for summer, try this twist on your fruit smoothie: make it frozen! A frozen fruit smoothie is ideal for summer, and you can make it in a variety of refreshingly cool summer flavors…you might try the frozen Key Lime Smoothie (key limes of course being the main ingredient), or how about a frozen banana-strawberry fruit smoothie?! Or what about a frozen melon fruit smoothie? Just the sound of these smothies is enough to cool you off!
Here’s a great recipe for a frozen fruit smoothie:
buy a bag of frozen mixed fruit (I like to buy mine in bulk from Sam’s - it gives enough fruit to make smoothies for an entire month!) Add about 2.5 cups of frozen fruit, about 1 cup of milk and 1/2 cup of apple juice or orange juice, then sweeten the whole mixture with honey! Mix it in a blender until it’s all blended together the consistency of a thick shake.
It makes a delicious and refreshing drink - and not only are fruit smoothies flavorful and refreshing but they are also very healthY! Try it and make this fruit drink the flavor of your summer!
Yoplait Go-gurt flavors! Go-gurt is a kind of yogurt that is portable - it is yogurt in a tube! You are supposed to squeeze the tube to get the yogurt out, it’s specifically targeted for kids. Go-gurt comes in a selection of flavors meant to appeal to kids, and some of the flavors do have pretty cool names. Here’s a list of the flavors of Yoplait Gogurt:
- Banana Split / Strawberry Milkshake
- Cool Cotton Candy / Burstin’ Melon Berry
- Strawberry Kiwi-Kick / Chill-Out Cherry
- Rad Raspberry / Paradise Punch
- Strawberry Splash / Berry Blue Blast
- Ro-Gurt Special Edition: Shaggy’s Like Cool Punch & Rawberry
- SpongeBob Special Edition: Strawberry Riptide & Bikini Bottom Berry
What flavors does the famous Blue Bell creamery produce?
Since 1907 the Texas ice cream producer has been developing flavors that cater the needs of the customer. This quality ice cream in one of the best and top producing brands in the country.
Here are a few of their flavors:
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Cookies ‘n Cream
Banana Split
Buttered Pecan
Century Sundae
Chocolate Chip
Dutch Chocolate
French Vanilla
Homemade Vanilla
Strawberries & Homemade Vanilla
Strawberry
Milk Chocolate
Mint Chocolate Chip
The Great Divide
Ultimate Neapolitan
Natural Vanilla Bean
Orange Swirl
Pecan Pralines ‘n Cream
Rocky Road
The flavor of fresh peach cobbler is a very southern flavor. Ideally, fresh peach cobbler should have a tasty blend of flavors including sweet flavor of summer peaches, mixed in with the fresh flavor of peach juice, and a special blend of explosive spice flavors to give the cobbler that special flavor, including either nutmeg or cinammon. Peach cobbler is a very filling dessert, and the flavor is comforting and familiar, and often reminds people of home or their grandma or grandparents house.
Recipes for peach cobbler abound - you’ll find creative recipes which make peach cobbler with a cake mix or a bisquick mix, peach cobbler with a double crust or a crispy crust. Even low-fat peach cobbler recipes. Check out Easy Peach Cobbler Recipes on recipezaar; experiment with the spices to get the pie flavor exactly the way you want it.
Beside peach cobbler itself, peach cobbler is also a popular summer icecream flavor - check out the Ben & Jerry’s Willie Nelson’s Country Peach Cobbler if you want to try it! It has cinnamon, sugar and shortbread pieces and is both an ice cream and pie enthusaists dream!
What makes for a good lemonade flavor? The best lemonade should be slightly sour in flavor, and sweetened only enough to reduce it from being sour enough to make your face cringe. In other words, lemonade should not be very very sweet…err on the side of being sour. As for Frozen lemonade, keep in mind that you drink frozen lemonade when it is hot, so you want it to be refreshing. If you make it too sweet, you’ll be dissatisfied with it, and you’ll want water. Therefore, you want to keep frozen lemonade slightly sour in flavor as well.
How do you make frozen lemonade? A good recipe for frozen lemonade that comes out with a good flavor is:
- approx. 1 cup of lemon juice, 3 cups of crushed ice, 3/4 cup of sugar, 3/4 cup of water. Put in the blender and blend!
Enjoy!!
Right in time for summer, let’s talk about Kool Aid Flavors! The original six flavors of Kool Aid include Raspberry, Cherry, Grape, Lemon, Orange, and Root-Beer. When the powder is mixed with the correct amount of water, all the flavors have a refreshing light taste. They also all have a very sweet-tasting flavor. Grape in particular is slightly different with a sweet-sour flavor, especially appealing to children. If you’re worried about all the sugar in Kool-Aid, you might try the sugar free flavors of kool-aid, which are Cherry, Grape, Lemonade, Soarin’ Strawberry Lemonade, and Tropical Punch. Even the sugar free versions however are surprisingly sweet and are particularly appealing to children for this reason. One interesting fact about Kool Aid: Kool Aid is the official soft drink of Nebraska!
Recipe for Kool Aid / How to Make Kool-Aid: Kool-Aid comes in powder form in little packets. The packet will tell you how much water that should be mixed with the powder. Warm one third of the water instructed in the mixing. Then mix the fruit sugar flavoring from the packet into the warm water. Then put in the rest of the water and stir. Add ice to finish it off. Let it sit for 5 minutes, and you’re ready for this summery-sweet refreshing summer flavor!
Anise cookies are especially good for those people who like the flavor of licorice or licorice flavored pastries since it is made with anise seed or anise extract which both smells and tastes like licorice. (Anise seed is a seed related to caraway, dill, and fennel, and is popular in European cooking, in particular with fish and shellfish cooking to give the food a Mediterranean flavor. Look in the spice section of the supermarket for a bottle.) Anise cookies are a great choice for the holidays because of the sweet licorice flavor..be advised though that the taste is bold, and not subtle. If you’re looking for recipes for how to make anise cookies - here’s a good Anise Cookie Recipe for those looking to use their anise extract or anise seeds in a tasty dish. Here’s another good recipe for Italian Anise Cookies. Finally, here’s another recipe for Sour Cream Anise Cookies. So licorice lovers pull out your anise extract and get cooking!
p.s. For more info on anise, check out my post on Anise Flavored Liquer.
