#7 Blue Cheese Ice Cream

To finish off dinner, we moved from our Japanese restaurant to a nearby cafe/dive known for its cheeses and focus on local. With our espressos, we indulged in a pear frangipane tart topped with one of the strangest desserts I’d ever tried: blue cheese ice cream.

There is not much to talk about this dessert other than its flavor simply because it does not have a history. Needless to say, the ice cream was excellent: sticky, strong as any really good blue cheese is, definitively blue and veiny, and even a little stinky. Strange as this seems for an ice cream, the effect was phenomenal, especially with the pear tart, savory to its sweeter elements though it sounds impossible for an ice cream to be savory. The proportions of the dessert were just right; much more of this funny ice cream would be overwhelming and as glad as I am to have tried it, it is certainly not a treat I could ever snack for more than a few spoonfuls.

Sources:

http://winecellarva.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/friday-fun-pairings-port-and-blue-cheese/