Comments on: Success in the lab.

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:41:02 +0000

I haven’t a clue, but it sounds like a LOVELY place! Maybe it’s just a local expression, like going downtown? Where I grew up (Wilkinsburg PA) we said “upstreet” to indicate the shopping district.

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:03:15 +0000

I have a question for all of you who now live, or have lived, in The Fort that is totally off topic, but I am hoping it will be okay and I have been waiting for a lull in the conversation.

Years ago when I worked at the Lutheran Home in the Alzheimer Unit, I found that more than one of our residents would babble about “going up to The Avenue” or “so and so went up on The Avenue”. Now, the problem was that I could not ask them where this “Avenue” was because of the obvious nature of Alzheimer’s Disease, but I have always been really curious as to what street or what part of Fort Wayne would have been referred to as “The Avenue” by several different people of diverse ethnic and monetary backgrounds.

No one I asked at the time ever knew, and I was just wondering if anyone on this message board would know?

By: mary

mary — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:11:40 +0000

As a dessert Thai or Szechuan food, coconut ice cream is pretty amazing. Something about the chili/ginger/garlic preceding coconut just hits the right note. Mango sound equally wonderful. The divey Thai restaurant I go to serves cold mango slices on slightly warm, sweet, sticky rice for dessert. Heaven.

By: Nance

Nance — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:32:41 +0000

Gladly.

Mango Ice Cream

2 eggs

1 cup sugar

2 cups mango puree

2 cups heavy cream

Beat the eggs and sugar together until light — about three minutes. Fold in the mango, fold in the cream. Freeze. Enjoy.

Very simple, no? I didn’t measure the two cups of puree — just peeled two ripe mangos and mushed them up in the food processor. I had some wariness about eating the eggs uncooked, which I suppose is unsafe. You could heat the egg/sugar mixture over a double boiler until it’s 170 degrees, which is the “instant kill” temp for salmonella. (I didn’t; no projectile vomiting yet.) Also, I think this could be made even better with a little lime juice and powdered ginger. But it’s plenty good as it is.

By: Carmella

Carmella — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:21:04 +0000

There was a pic of MJ on the front page of the FW Journal, and I was shocked at how icky his fingernails were. Eww…gnarly. ANYWAY, get that tought out of your mind and back to ice cream. The best I’ve had lately is this Ben & Jerry’s: OATMEAL COOKIE CHUNK;

Sweet Cream Cinnamon Ice Cream with Chunks of Oatmeal Cookies & Fudge. Oh, yeah babe.

By: Joan

Joan — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:15:49 +0000

Would you mind sharing that mango ice cream recipe? My mouth is watering!