Keepin' it cool

My parents sent me a fantastic gift for my birthday this year.  I'm sure they listened to us talk about Bluebell ice cream each week and how amazing it was and figured we should probably save some money already and just make our own.  So I was given an ice cream maker.  It came in perfect time because I had just barely gotten a recipe from Ina Garten's show a few days before.

Behold, the yumminess that is Salted Caramel Ice Cream:

It is delicious and has almost three cups of cream in it.  It's delicious because it has almost three cups of cream in it :)  Basically it's a bunch of cream and sugar prepared one way and then some more cream and sugar prepared another way and then I combined them together, threw in a smidge of sea salt, and topped it with more freshly whipped cream and sugar.  It's great, but it's so rich that I can only handle a few bites in a sitting.  That's probably for the best so each serving is a miniscule amount.  My arteries can only handle so much I'm sure.

Thanks to my family for giving me such a great gift-that-keeps-on-giving gift.  So far, it's wonderful.