ice cream Archives - Listen to Lena

Warning: This post is chock full of so much ice creamy goodness, it may give you brain-freeze, an irresistible craving for Cold Stone Creamery, or both. Mmmm…

Happy National Ice Cream Day! It’s the ONE day when you can be a kid again; go ahead and ask for extra sprinkles, a double scoop or an extra spoon to share. Bonus: it’s a known fact that calories don’t count on National Ice Cream Day, so indulge!

To celebrate, Cold Stone Creamery has unveiled ten Provincial Signature Creations, representing each Canadian province. The delicious Creations combine the most popular mix-ins in each respective province with Cold Stone Creamery’s premium ice cream, made with real Canadian cream.

Are you ready for the lineup?

(I’ll forgive you if you dash out halfway through reading this post. Really, there’s ice cream waiting! I get it.)…

Damn you, Galen Weston, and your stacked roster of President’s Choice commercials – always tantalizing me with more goodies that my hips will love and my jeans will hate.

So I’m just over a week postpartum and happen to be watching TV at an ungodly hour while Reid-a-Roonie is feeding (sleeping?)… and I see my nemesis, Galen Weston, once again doling out delicious promises on which I just know he’ll deliver. This time? PC’s new ice cream flavours – fashioned after ones you’d find in a parlour! Including…

Rainbow
Root Beer Float
Caramel Toffee Crunch
Marshmallow Chocolate Swirl
Sprinkle Party Cake
Cotton Candy

Bubble Gum

…. and much more, including my all time fave, TIGER TAIL!!!

Geez Louise, I’m supposed to be working off the pregnancy weight, not drooling over ice cream! Needless to say, I woke up Mike and told him under no circumstances is he allowed to purchase the ice cream until I’ve dropped at least 20 pounds.

(In the morning, I refined that number to 10 pounds, as every one should be rewarded for good work. By midday, we had agreed that 5 pounds was an accomplishment in itself; and perhaps we could talk then.)

EDIT: As you read this, I’m eating the ice cream. I’ll start my diet tomorrow :)

Oh, YUM! Just as I remember it – creamy orange ice cream with a thick ripple of black licorice. Perhaps the best combination known to man… I can’t believe it took so long for someone to offer this flavour in a grocery store! Gotta hand it to PC!

The new flavours come in pint sized containers that are perfect for sharing (or consuming yourself if you’re nursing a broken heart). Using only quality ingredients, you’ll be sure to find an old (or new) favourite. Baskin who?

Now you know how much I love to share goodies, so one lucky reader* will win a $100 PC Gift Card to purchase a summer’s supply of ice cream! To enter, simply jump online and find your favourite flavour, then leave a comment here to let us know why you love it! I’ll draw for a winner on Sunday. Good luck everybody!

*This contest is open to Canadian residents only.