The Gift That Keeps On Giving Till It Kills You 6

Month six brought the floral flavors, a very unique combination of flavors based on flowers and flower byproducts. Receipt of the ice creams was delayed briefly first in transit and then in reshipment after the initially delayed shipment turned into ice cream soup as ice cream is want to do if given enough time out of a freezer. It was nevertheless a winner and Liz's favorite batch to date. It was probably our mailman's least favorite, however, judging by our door cam's video. Ice cream soup is very leaky and very sticky. 

- Rhubarb Crumble with Toasted Anise

Scott: Surprisingly good. The anise flavor was subtle, but pleasant. The rhubarb was tart, but not too tart. The crumbles were nicely sized, textured, and fairly well mixed. Aside from the rhubarb being a giant glob like most Salt & Straw syrups, needing to be manually apportioned to prevent rhubarb toxicity, it was a well made ice cream.

7/10

Liz: The veins of rhubarb have great tart flavor. Wish they were distributed more evenly. The anise is good, but subtle.

8/10 

 

- Wildflower Honey with Ricotta Walnut Lace Cookies

Scott: Despite its complicated name, it is somehow the most boring of flavors. Even its crumbles are like a very boring, slightly soggy cereal. Only flavor I can truly distinguish is lemon which I am assuming is the lemon zest. Ingredient number twelve or so. What happened to the other eleven flavors??

4/10

Liz: Kind of boring.

4/10 

 

- Honey Lavender

Scott: Very good. Very purple. Unique. Yet somehow not particularly impressive. Except for its purple-ness. It was very purple.

7/10

Liz: Very distinct and bold flavor. This one I would buy.

 8.5/10 

 

- Jasmine Milk Tea & Chocolate

Scott: Quite nice. I enjoyed the tea-flavored ice cream, and the chocolate almonds bits were a nice complement that weren't too large like many Salt & Straw flavors. Overall very satisfying.

8/10

Liz: Very promising, but the jasmine flavor could have been stronger and the almonds don't add much.

7/10

- Mathilde's Hibiscus & Coconut Sherbert (vegan)

Scott: A hard to describe experience. Like eating perfume, but in a good way. Also makes a most delicious base for a smoothie. I'd order that smoothie.

6/10

Liz: Pleasantly tart with a creamy finish.

7/10

T-20 Hours: Flowers for Hours

Flowers, flowers, flowers. Any good wedding has a bride's weight worth of flowers, and our wedding was nothing if not a good wedding. Being a Pizza Inferno wedding, however, we had to take it to the next level. Gold plated flowers! Flowers on fire! Flowers that shoot laser beams from their stamens! Flowers don't weigh very much, though, and even a slender bride's worth of floral arrangements can start to add up cash wise. The solution? As with everything wedding-wise, DIY. And by DIY we of course mean have friends and family do it. 😁 Thankfully we had an excellent flower supplier, Maisie from Soil Sisters, who sold us buckets and buckets of freshly picked blooms straight from their farm just a few miles outside of town; an excellent work crew of poorly paid Keeneys, Shadi, Crabtrees, McCormics, and Jenkins; and an even bajillion pieces of refurbished scientific glassware to serve as vases acquired from a no-questions-asked second hand science warehouse in Sacramento.

The final result of our collective labors, including buying a sorting the glassware, sanding the glassware, transporting the glassware, and finally filling the glassware with flowers, was a beautiful bunch of floral arrangements that might I say made for a very fine wedding.

Including some gorgeous bouquets and boutonnieres (actually made by Maisie):

A lovely garland of marigolds to adorn our birch tree wedding arch:
[arbor and garlands assembled by Jenkins... arbor provided by us. We brought a ton of stuff to that patio.]

Beakers and flasks of flowers out the wazoo:

Test tubes of buds out the ying yang:

And a few choice centerpieces:

In a perfect wedding world, which does not exist, there would perhaps have been some fern fronds and fiddleheads thrown into the mix, but, personally, I think this was more than good enough.

[Flowers are one of the few, maybe the only, aspect of the wedding with which I am fully satisfied and would not change a thing. Except maybe more photos of them, but that's not the flowers' fault.]