Goat milk thyme ice cream and fresh peaches

Thyme ice cream over fresh peaches

Well you've enjoyed fresh peaches and cream.  How about fresh peaches with thyme ice cream?
I do love the combination of herbs and fruit.  Herbs seem savory but when you add one to the sweetness in ice cream the flavor is different.  My favorite herb in ice cream is lavender but how about some thyme?  The recipe is the basic for vanilla ice cream:
         
4 egg yolks
3/4 cups sugar
1 quart milk - if you have a goat with fresh milk like my Sunflower- even better
3-4 sprigs fresh thyme
method:  Classic Creme Anglaise
whisk together the sugar and egg yolk until the color of lemons
Meanwhile warm 1 cup of milk stovetop until almost a boil
Add thyme sprigs and turn off heat.  Then let steep for up to 1/2 hour
Add the warm milk - a little at a time- to sugar and egg yolks until all milk is incorporated
Return to stove and heat until you can draw a line on the back of a spoon.  Very French- I'm sorry.  Translated that means until thick but not boiling.  Too hot--> scrambled eggs.  I think the temperature is no higher than 180 deg.
Add this through a strainer to the remaining 3 cups of milk.
Place in ice water bath to stop cooking - not required
Cool in fridge for 8 hours before freezing in ice cream freezer

Notice there is no vanilla.  The thyme flavor is subtle but pairs well with peaches
Bon Appetit!

What's for breakfast?

Goat cheese brie with fresh figs and thyme honey, originally uploaded by cabanagirl.

Grilled goat cheese brie with fresh black mission figs drizzled with thyme infused honey.
I saw this on a Seattle based blog Not without Salt a few days ago and had to try it. It isn't her idea either but we all seem to be sharing it. I changed the brie to a goat brie.
I love goat cheese. I like the tangy flavor but then I was raised with goats and goats' milk. The sweetness of the honey balances out that tangy taste beautifully. But if you don't like goat cheese or can't find one...any triple cream brie will be perfect.

Grill the brie on a cast iron surface.

Use fresh figs.

Drizzle with thyme infused honey

Bon petit dejeuner!

thyme infused honey

thyme infused honey, originally uploaded by cabanagirl.

one quarter cup honey and a few sprigs of thyme (I used French). Place in a small saucepan and heat stovetop until the honey bubbles. Turn off the heat and let the thyme infuse. Then remove the sprigs