Too Much Ice Cream Makes Jason A Little Bit Quesy-21 Jan 08

So today being MLK day and account of Siobhan and I having a glorious day off and also because it was brutally, brutally cold we thought it would be a good idea to go on a food adventure to get weird ice cream. I must say we started the day fine, as downstairs neighbor Ryan felt the calling to attempt to make croissant from scratch. As many of you might know this is quite the endeavor but we have to give high marks for not burning most of them and the last batch actually looking quite good. I must say that they were quite tasty too, them being composed mostly of butter.
After being filled up halfway with butter we decided to fill the rest with cream by making the trek to Kew Gardens to check out this ice cream place that was supposed to have very eclectic flavors. Siobhan, in doing research for her urban planning internship, had discovered this small ice cream shop deep in queens (one subway and two buses) that supposedly had flavors such as but not limited to: Lox. Herring. Sour Creme. Donut. Baklava. Ruggalach. and many more. Intrigued, and knowing her addiction would not rest until she was sated, I agreed to accompany her on the trek to find out if it was really as gross as some of the blogs put it or if it was merely all smoke and mirrors disguising a wonderful undiscovered (by us) gem.


So here i am eating a few scoops of birthday cake and halvah ice cream. The place is called Max & Mina's, and i must say for it being around 20˙ out the place was doing a great biz of local hasidic people and their many many children. I can't imagine what it's like when it's hot out. Anyway, on account of it being so cold, the truly weird flavors (herring?) were not around, tho we did try some 'nova lox' which actually did taste like salmon. it was interesting but not interesting enough (read: gross) to actually eat a whole scoop. the thing we found that we liked was that they had a lot of flavors (fruity pebbles, donut, birthday cake) that consisted of a base mixed with some stuff. after both eating two servings we saw a girl walk out with an "oreo explosion" that actually lived up to the name, so at some point this summer i could see bringing the bikes out here and giving it another shot.

Stomach update: later this evening we had a wonderful dinner with my former roommate Matt Tait and his wife Claudia. They made a pork neapolitan pasta sauce which, along with their lovely company, was superb. Claudia reminded me of why i was drinking Milk Thistle Tea- it is a strong anti-oxidant that helps your liver clean things out. Since part of the whole chemical battle is getting all the dead things (and more importantly, the toxicity left over from all the chemo) out of my body I was very interested in helping out the old liver. As some of you know i am further helping the liver during this time by not imbibing any alcohol for the duration. I do miss beer, but not as much as i am going to miss it once it gets warm!

Real Stomach Update - don't eat so much butter and cream. you will pay later. in the middle of the night. yechhh.

but to end on a nice note, a sunset view of queens