How To Make Everyone’s Favorite Ice Cream Flavors From Scratch

This recipe for homemade ice cream is pretty straightforward: cream, eggs and a crap ton of freezing, stirring and repeating. Oreos into your mixture is completely up to you. Combine the milk, cream, sugar and vanilla extract in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir frequently for about 10 minutes or until it just begins to bubble around the edges (don’t let it boil). Turn off the heat. In a separate bowl, beat the yolk. Add half of the heated milk mixture while constantly whisking the yolk. Pour the yolk mixture back into the saucepan and continue to stir. Turn the heat back to medium and whisk the mixture until it thickens. Transfer mixture to an ice bath (which is a small bowl inside of a larger bowl filled with ice water) and let it sit in the fridge for 20 minutes.

After 20 minutes, transfer to a freezer-safe bowl and place in the freezer for about 30 minutes. Remove from freezer, stir mixture rapidly with a whisk (or use an electric mixer) to break up the partially frozen ice cream, and then return to freezer. Repeat 4-5 times until the mixture is thick and creamy. Once the mixture has frozen and thickened, pour it into an air-tight container, stopping to add in layers of Oreos. Freeze for about 3-4 hours or overnight. Wash, trim and slice strawberries; puree half, and leave the other half sliced. Follow steps 1-3 above, leaving out the vanilla extract. Combine mixture and strawberry puree in an ice bath. Place in fridge for 20 minutes. Dice the remaining un-pureed strawberries. Repeat steps 5-8 above, substituting the diced strawberries for the Oreos. Heat whole milk on medium-low heat until just before it simmers. Add coffee grounds and turn heat to low. Steep coffee for 5 minutes. Turn off heat and steep for 10 more minutes.

If you’ve just moved to a new city, this one’s for you. Sure, you’ve heard of friends setting up friends with potential romantic partners, but you can also ask your friends to set you up on a friend date — or at least ask them for contacts. Being introduced to friends through friends makes meeting for the first time so much less awkward. You already have mutuality and something to talk about (“How do you know Jenny,”). Sharing a funny story about your mutual friend always helps break the ice. The key is not to wait until you’re already settled in to ask for referrals. “Where people start feeling really awkward is two years later when they still haven’t met people,” says author Shasta Nelson.

You have likely seen photos on the internet which are well-exposed at the center, but the brightness starts reducing towards the edges. If you are not familiar with the name of this effect, it is called an edge vignette or image vignetting. Interestingly, a vignette is an effect which occurs naturally but can also be achieved intentionally during the post-processing stage. Not everyone likes the vignetting effect in their photos, for some, it is a useful technique and for others, it is a disaster. Honestly, a well-done vignette can help draw viewer’s attention towards the subject placed in the center. You can use it to your benefit if you are a portrait, wildlife, or a wedding photographer.



But vignetting could also make your photos unappealing if you are a landscape, interior, or commercial photographer, as you would not want the edges of your photos to be too dark. There are multiple reasons why the vignetting effect gets applied to your photos when using a digital camera. One of the main causes of vignetting is the use of wide aperture openings such as f/1.4 or f/1.8. But if you increase the aperture value by 2-3 stops, you can easily eliminate the vignetting effect in your photo. Another cause of vignetting could be the use of a longer focal length, but as you go wider the effect starts getting less visible. Some low-end lenses are also more likely to have an edge vignette than their more expensive counterparts.