Aioli and Ice Cream

Last night I was inspired to make my own aioli. Now, I've never made aioli before. The recipe is simple: garlic cloves, salt, egg yolk, extra virgin olive oil.

I started out with crushing 4 garlic cloves with 1/2 tsp salt in a mortar and pestle. Lots of work. I then decided to add an egg yolk. I then poured in the olive oil in a thin stream. Stir, stir. I got really tired of stirring. Eventually the mortar was too small, so I transferred the mixture to a bigger bowl. Stir, stir. At the end I added too much oil at once, so the mixture broke. That is why I never make my own mayonnaise, much less my own aioli! I tried again, by adding another egg yolk to a separate bowl and putting the mixture in there little by little. Didn't work. I guess I don't know how to fix broken aioli. I guess next time I better try a food processor or a blender just to avoid it from breaking.

Well, even though it was broken, the aioli was delicious with fresh green beans blanched in salted water and French baguette. We had this for dinner last night. My husband absolutely loved the aioli, so much that we had the aioli leftovers tonight with focaccia bread for dinner.

After tonight's dinner, I had a crazy idea. I decided to take a melon baller and scoop out a bit of vanilla ice cream and put that small ball into my homemade magic shell - coconut oil and cocoa powder. I repeated this process until I had 5 small balls. Oooh, vanilla ice cream bonbons! Awesome.

Well, that's it for now. I'll definitely make aioli again sometime. Too delicious and too much fun not to make again! I don't think I ever want to make mayonnaise, though I could. But aioli is so much more fun! I'd rather make aioli than mayonnaise.