I’ve had an ice cream maker for several years, still in the box. I bought it on clearance at the end of summer one year, and we’ve just never gotten around to it.

The kids and I were going to make cookies yesterday afternoon, but Alyson (my teen) called and needed a ride home, so there wasn’t enough time for cookies. I remembered that ice cream maker, and went to allrecipes.com and looked for a recipe that I didn’t have to go shopping to make. I found one that took only milk, sugar and vanilla, and as soon as we got home from picking Alyson up, we got it started (I had rock salt from some ice-cream-in-a-baggie experiments we did last fall). 20 minutes later, we had some yummy ice cream. Ice milk, I suppose. But it was yummy!

Next time I do major grocery shopping, I’m so going to buy some cream and stuff so we can make real ice cream.