spice cream
I made peanut noodles the other day, and the first step in making peanut noodles is making peanut sauce. The second step is trying to keep enough sauce to put on the noodles, because strange as it may sound that sauce tastes pretty good on its own. After all, it's basically peanut butter, soy sauce, and brown sugar: all ingredients of which I am rather fond. A couple tablespoons of Mongolian fire oil only makes it all the more appealing! So the idea occurred to me, and I suggested it to our dinner guests, that the sauce might be good as an ice cream topping. They allowed that it might be indeed, but no action was taken at the time. Well, today I tried it out (on vanilla ice cream, natch) and I am happy to report that the results are quite tasty. Not exactly what one usually looks for in a dessert, perhaps--a bit too spicy for that, though the sensation of burning was somewhat mitigated by the coldness of the ice cream--but definately an experiment worth repeating at some point.