The Big Muddy Ice Cream Blog

The post you've all been waiting for! You've probably been wondering what ice cream I ate the day before the Boston Marathon. Brett and I decided to go back to Picco, which we visited last time I was in Boston, because it was so good! When we went and met up with my friends Lizzie and Naomi, Picco was super crowded, as was just about every restaurant in the Boston area. So we order our ice cream from the counter to-go and walked around Boston Commons with it! There were lots of tasty flavors being offered that day, and most of them ones that I didn't try last time. I've been in a coconut mood lately (mostly eating coconut curries and other coconut desserts) so I went with the coconut chip. Also spring means time for awesome fruity flavors, so I decided on raspberry chip! So pretty! The base of coconut chip was strongly coconut flavored and quite sweet! As Brett described Picco's ice cream, "their flavors are what they say they are!" Picco's f...

Man, Lucky's Market in Iowa City is such a great ice cream resource! I've gotten Steve's ice cream there, Three Twins, and now Graeter's! Graeter's is a brand that is seriously underrepresented on Big Muddy. Thankfully, Lucky's will help me fix this atrocity. Of the Graeter's flavors Madeline and I have tried, the best are usually the fruit ice creams with chocolate chips, while their more desserty flavors, like Mocha Chip and Cookie Dough haven't been as spectacular. So where does Coconut Chocolate Chip fall on this spectrum? Definitely on the delicious side. The flavor of the base was a simple, sweet coconut flavor. It tasted exactly like eating sweetened shredded coconut. There were also lots of coconut flakes in the whole pint. These gave awesome texture to the whole pint. Simple, sweet, coconutty! And of course the chocolate chips were fabulous. If you weren't aware, Graeter's does have the best chocolate chips. They are ...

So impromptu dance parties are a thing. Lame. (Ok not really, but wait for what is coming!) Know what's not lame? Impromptu ice cream parties. Yeah, I made that happen yesterday. I needed to go to the post office in the afternoon, but apparently the it is closed from 2-2:45pm for lunch. Which I guess makes sense so people on their normal lunch break at noon can stop by. But whatever.  I got to the post office at 2:10 so I needed to kill some time. I needed to buy a new notebook, so I headed to the Target about a block away. I'm not super familiar with the layout of this particular Target, and didn't know where the school supplies were, so I just wandered.  WHAT DO YOU KNOW I ENDED UP BY THE ICE CREAM HOW DID THAT EVEN HAPPEN I HAVE NO IDEA DON'T BLAME ME BLAME TARGET. Something amazing caught my eye. A Talenti Target exclusive flavor that sounded amazing and that I hadn't seen before.  I think of these flavors as 'ghost flavors.' They're not listed on...