It was a beautiful day at the beach - almost 70 degrees on March 1 - perfect timing for the grand opening of Rita's Italian Ice. Now this might not seem particularly exciting to some of you, but for us it was HUGE. When you live in a beach resort town, you can barely throw a tourist without hitting an ice cream, fudge, or doughnut shop. And that can be hard on a kid with allergies to all things dairy - watching locals and tourists alike line up and enjoy frosty treats on a hot summer day. We have been able to enjoy italian ice at Tullio's in Duck (our fave!), and snow cones at the ice cream shop across from the Kitty Hawk Hilton, but here's the beauty of Rita's - we can walk, run, ride our bikes and/or scooters, thus combining a fun family outing with a delicious dairy free treat! As a mom, it just doesn't get much better than that. We can report the following: the mango ROCKS! blueberry and strawberry were also yummy and Maddy was a big fan of the choc chip cookie dough italian ice. I had the coffee custard which was good, as was Kenny's choc/vanilla custard swirl. Our pal Kiirsten was there with her kids and they gave 8 thumbs up for the strawberry blendini, which should totally be the name of a new Muppets character. He can hang out with the Swedish Chef.
This provides the perfect opportunity to tell you about something I saw today on one of my other favorite blogs, postpunkkitchen.com. I discovered the site when searching for dairy free cupcake recipes and was led to their book, Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. Indeed they do! Ally is a HUGE fan of the apple cider cupcakes, and I'm sure we'll eventually work our way through the entire book. Definitely check out the site - those ppk girls are hilarious, especially if you like vegan chef feminist activist humor. Case in point, this recent post:
The Vegan Version Of Watching Paint Dry?
The boys at Chicago Soy Dairy have been hard at work on their latest product, a vegan cheese called Teese. I have high hopes for this stuff, and I’ll be testing it in my oven at a pizza party next weekend. Until then, you can watch it melt in a pizza oven to a back drop of “Rock You Like A Hurricane.” As if we needed Scorpion to make the melting soy cheese seem exciting!
I don't know why, but that totally cracked me up. Oh yeah that, and this cake:
Those crazy vegans....
BTW, I totally think the phrase "watching soy cheese melt" should be introduced to the American lexicon as in, "whatcha doin? oh nothing, just hanging around, watching the soy cheese melt," or "damn! it's hot enough out there to melt soy cheese!" or perhaps "jeezus, watching the Jonas Brothers in that movie was about as exciting as watching soy cheese melt."
One last link, to my other favorite cheese (ps, not for the kids): http://richardcheese.com/
Wishing you a cheesy, peaceful weekend.
1 comment:
get yerself a ZPizza next time you're up here. Although I prefer the real stuff, their Soy Cheese on whole wheat crust pizzas are very good!
Post a Comment