It starts with a theory: "Everything tastes better with either bacon or whipped cream." It catalyzes with an epiphany while enjoying the delights of green-tea ice cream. It is bacon ice cream, and yes; it is good!
One fateful evening I was enjoying delightful meal at an overpriced but quite entertaining restaurant known as Benihana's. The Japanese food, though not the best for its cost, is enjoyable because it is prepared at your table by a knife flipping chef. The finale of the meal, though not prepared by the dexterous cook, is a serving of one of my favorite treats: green-tea ice cream. As I'm savoring the dessert my mind reflects on my first experience with this particular concoction. I remember being slightly afraid that it wouldn't taste good, and upon tasting it not so sure that it did. It, however, planted it's unique flavor somewhere in the recesses of my brain and soon it was something that I would find myself craving. The interesting thing is that it's flavor is unique enough that I don't really think of it as ice cream, but something in its own category. And it is this disconnection combined with a random recalling of the bacon-whipped-cream-theory, that I begin to wonder can you possibly make a bacon ice cream that tastes good?
Risking a swift trip to a padded room, I decided to mention this to Julia (a soon to be partner in crime in this endeavor). Her reaction was much like I expect yours is: disgust and shock. I don't, however, take epiphanies lightly and after a short discussion and a phone call to a ice-cream making veteran we were both inspired to try and prove to the world that bacon ice cream could not only be created but could be delicious.
The next phase was to present the idea to my roommates Justin, and Vy. We were going to need some ideas, and Vy's talent for creating culinary masterpieces with little instruction and vague recipe's. The brain-storming session that followed subsided with a plan for our opus, inspired by the breakfast plate phenomenon of bacon and maple syrup coexisting on the same plate. The plan was simple and elegant. Create a maple ice cream base, and mix in small chunk's of crunchy fried bacon, bits if you will. It would then be a simple matter of placing this concoction into a waffle cone to tie everything together.
The results, according to all four humans who have currently tasted the compound, are a resounding success! The waffle cones were substituted at the last minute for a more convenient butter waffle cookie, but otherwise the plan was followed to a "T." The sweetness of the maple ice cream is perfectly complimented by the crunchy salty bits of bacon and enjoying this with the waffle cookies gives one an overwhelming sense of comfort while recalling lazy Sunday breakfasts. Words are truly inadequate to describe this flavor, and its many wonders, but rest assured that I will be making sure that everyone I can gets to sample this mad-genius, and enjoy something truly unique and wonderful.
