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The Bourbon Caramel Bacon Sundae

Jan22

Restaurant: Sweet Rose Creamery [1, 2]

Location: 225 26th Ave, suite 51, Santa Monica, 90402 310-260-CONE

Date: January 21, 2012

Cuisine: Homemade Ice Cream

Rating: Very REAL ice cream. And they have bacon!

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A local favorite of ours at the Brentwood Country Mart is Sweet Rose Creamery. They make real homemade ice cream using only the traditional and natural ingredients. None of those emulsifiers and artificial flavors.

The board of flavors.

My brother with his normal ice cream. Fresh mint and coffee on the left, caramel on the right.

But I’ve never been normal, check out the fourth sundae down.

The bacon sundae! Yes, it’s true. A scoop of caramel ice cream and a scoop of verve coffee ice cream with bourbon carmel sauce, candied bacon, pecan crumble and whipped cream.

The side view. This was a seriously decadent sundae. The caramel tasted pretty strongly of bourbon too, but it was the whole bacon and carmel thing that really made it. Bacon is so good with gooey sweet stuff. 10/10.

Check out the more ice cream oriented review of sweet rose.

By: agavin
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Tagged as: Bacon, Bacon Sundae, Business, Dairy, Frozen, Ice cream, Santa Monica California, Sundae, whipped cream

Quick Eats: Italian-Iberian Snack

Dec01

A simple breakfast snack made with ingredients from the Philadelphia Italian Market.

Prosciutto on top of a fantastic Manchego cheese. Simple, but delicious. For breakfast snacking cheeses I really became a fan of the Iberian cheese during my month in Spain earlier this year. They have a rich nutty quality without being too overpowering.

Some slices of my Mom’s homemade banana bread.

The setting.

By: agavin
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Tagged as: Breakfast, Brunch, Cheese, Dairy, Dairy product, Food, ham, Iberian Peninsula, Manchego, snack, Spain

Saturday is for Salt

Nov28

Traditionally, the ThanksGavin continues on Saturday with the deli brunch. In LA you just can’t get deli like you can in Philadelphia, with the partial exception of Brents. The locale was moved this year to cousin Abbe’s downtown.

A homemade frittata is whipped up.

Cousins Abbe and Matt prep in the kitchen.

The spread: fruit, munster cheese, kippered dish, fresh cut red onion, cucumber and tomato. In the back you can see cream cheese with fresh chives, and whitefish salad. I love good whitefish salad.