Black Sesame Ice Cream

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup ground black sesame powder
• 2 cups whole milk
• 2 cups light cream
• 1 cup sugar

Method

1. Put black sesame, whole milk, and light cream in a saucepan. Slowly raise heat to 175 degF while stirring.
2. Once it hits 175 degF or is at a low simmer, turn off heat.
3. Add sugar and stir to dissolve. Cool to room temperature.
4. Put mixture in the refrigerator to "age" overnight.
5. Pour the mixture into the ice cream machine. Let it run about 30 minutes.
6. Harden the ice cream by putting it in the freezer for at least 3 hours.
   

Sweet and Sour Cabbage Salad

Vegetables:

• 1 cabbage, cut up into 1" pieces
• 3T salt
• 6 green onions cut into 1" long slivers
• 3-4 garlic cloves, chopped
• 1t crushed red pepper flakes
• 2-3 fresh hot peppers, sliced (optional, depending on how hot you want it)
• a small sweet red pepper (and/or green) for color, cut into slivers

Prepare vegetables:

1. Rub salt on cabbage and let it soak for an hour or more. Cabbage will be limp. Taste and if too salty, rinse and squeeze out as much liquid as possible.
2. Mix cabbage in with all the other vegetables and add marinade (see below).
3. Let mixture marinade in dressing for 30 minutes before serving.

Marinade :

Prepare by heating sugar and vinegar till sugar is just melted. Cool mixture and add sesame oil.

• 1/2c sugar
• 1/2c vinegar
• 1/4c sesame oil

Carrot Sorbet

Ingredients

• 5 lb bag of carrots (or, 4 cups of carrot juice)
  
• 1 cup sugar
• 9 oz (half jar) of apple jelly

Method

1. Juice enough carrots for 4 cups of carrot juice. This was about 5 lbs of carrot, minus 3 carrots.
2. Pour about 1 cup of the carrot juice into saucepan. Add sugar and apple jelly.
3. Heat on medium low and slosh the liquid around until the sugar and jelly are dissolved.
4. Turn off heat and add remaining carrot juice. Mix.
5. Chill mixture in refrigerator until cold. Or put in the freezer but make sure it doesn't freeze!
6. Pour mixture into prepared ice cream machine. Let the machine run for about 30 min, until mixture is a vibrant orange slush.
7. Allow the slush to set up in your freezer for at least 2 hours.