Day of Yum, Part 2

I finally got to eat some of my tasty treats!

The Chargrilled Yellow Bell Pepper soup is good, even chilled, but I think the flavor comes out better when it's warm. I would not put the gremolatta on a warm version. It would taste too lemony. The gremolatta is very good on the chilled version though.

While the base for the coffee ice cream was super tasty, the coffee flavor is almost imperceptible in the frozen and churned finished product. What I have in my freezer tastes more like vanilla with heath bar. In the future, I will double or triple the instant coffee and espresso. I may even try to stir a little instant coffee into what I have to sharpen the coffee flavor.

To go along with my chilled bell pepper soup for dinner, I made a little venison (butterfly cut--not sure of much more). I had planned to eat this Saturday, so I pulled it out of the freezer, threw it in a tupperware with coffee, beer (a dark lager), molasses, soy sauce, lime juice, garlic, and maybe a hint of cayenne pepper. I can't fully remember, and I definitely didn't measure. Then I threw it all in a skillet on med-high, and flipped the meet quite a few times to keep it juicy. The end product smelled like heaven and tasted like it too. The tang of the venison came through too, so it wasn't lost in two days of intense marinade. Heavenly. I am so excited by how good it was. I can't wait to eat the leftovers over the next couple days.

Yum, yum, yum. I'm going to have a beer while I bake my red velvet cake, and then I will indulge in some ice cream. Ciao!