Home made ice cream sundaes

I enjoyed a week of luxury care at the Epworth Freemasons in East Melbourne.  Each morning friendly man with a bow tie knocked on our door to take our order for lunch, dinner and the following morning's breakfast.  This was no ordinary hospital food, mind you.  This was fine dining... better than some restaurants!  We were allowed to select entrée, main and dessert from a delicious menu.  I hopped in to turkey with cranberry sauce, roast beef sandwiches, steak, cheesecake (pictured below), while my better half tried out dumplings, chicken breast with coleslaw, chicken and avocado toasties (as shown below), pork belly and lamb rump.

The most exciting part of the meal was a tall glassful of home made ice cream with a long spoon!  We had 3 scoops of that day's flavours, including strawberry (with chunky strawberry pieces), chocolate (rich dark), mango (with sauce), raspberry sorbet, banana (reminded us of banana lolly flavour), as well as rum and raison (with cookie bits).

Chocolate chip mint whey whip

Today I tried the chocolate chip mint whey whip ice-cream and was pleasantly surprised.  The flavour is good. The presentation is unusual - all the choc chips are on the top rather than mixed in.  I assume this is due to the freezing process.

I was interested to see Leo's stocking a lot of single serve tubs of gourmet ice creams.  Is this a new trend?  The expensive gourmet brand single serve portion (rather than the family size tub)?  Will it help those with diabetes or does it just make you want to try more flavours?

Lemon Meringue Pie

My sugar levels have been a bit low, so I decided to try out a lemon meringue pie last night.  Mum used to make it with a cake base (rather than pastry).  I didn't get the lemon layer quite right, because it soaked into the cake rather than sitting separately on top of the cake and under the meringue (however I didn't wait for it to cool long enough either).

Needless to say, there were no complaints from the boss: