Recipe: Mango

2 mangoes
1 tbsp lime juice
1/2 cup sugar
300ml milk
300 ml cream
2 eggs

You're gonna need a blender or food processor for this one. Puree the mango, lime juice and half the sugar together. I meant to simmer the mango pieces with the sugar first, but forgot. It still turned out fine. Use the eggs, milk and the rest of the sugar to make le custarde. Let it cool, then mix in the pureed fruit and the cream. Put it in the ice cream maker and the rest of this story writes itself...

Remarks: Great, but personally I fell it was little too creamy. May have been better to go gelato-style on this one and only use milk for the dairy element. That's a personal preference though, this is still damn good. If you could take the Australian summer and make it into a frozen dessert, then this would be it. Just remember to remove the race riots first, they can leave a bad taste in the mouth...

Recipe: Christmas Pudding

~200g Mixed dried fruit (orange peel, lemon peel, raisins, sultanas, preserved ginger, those weird glace cherries etc etc )
1.5 tsps mixed spice
6tbsp sherry
75g almonds
4 eggs
80g brown sugar
40g ordinary white sugar
400ml milk
300ml cream

You gotta plan ahead a bit for this one - soak the dried fruit in the sherry, mixed with about half the spice. Leave for a couple of days so it gets nice and boozey.

Make the custard, then mix in the cream and the rest of the spices. Put it in the machine, and add the fruit and nuts when it starts to thicken. I drained off the rest of the sherry before adding the fruit in, as too much booze can change the freezing point of the mix...

Remarks: Great! Fills you full of yuletide cheer! A possible alternative would be to substitute some of the sugar for melted chocolate....next year friends, next year...

Recipe: Wasabi

It's big in Japan, apparently.

300ml milk
300ml cream
3 eggs
1tsp vanilla essence
~120g sugar
1 3/4 tsp wasabi paste

Make vanilla custard, stir in the wasabi, dissolved in the minutest amount of water.

Verdict: Hmm...well...not at all bad, though definitely not for everyone. The trial group was divided down the middle as to whether this was awesome or awful. One chap complained of a "meaty" flavour, though this appeared to have diminished after further freezing (the more frozen ice cream is, the more subdued the flavour is...). The spicy aftertaste is very pleasant, but I have a feeling that this may not be making up part of Ice Cream Sunday's greatest hits of 2005...