Avocado Ice Cream

Several years ago, we visited the California Avocado Festival in Carpenteria.  I tasted some avocado ice cream and was delighted with it, but had since completely forgotten about it.  A couple of weeks ago I was trying to decide what to make with the large bag of avocados I had bought from the market downstairs and remembered the ice cream.

I found a recipe from Food Network from Alton Brown.  The ice cream turned out fantastic, very creamy and avocadoy, and a lovely color of pale green.  I highly recommend it after a meal of spicy Mexican food.   The week before I made the ice cream, Rick Bayless made an avocado ice cream as part of the penultimate episode of Top Chef Masters.  He used liquid nitrogen.  I didn’t have any of that on hand, so I used an ordinary ice cream maker.