Jose Mier of Sun Valley explores watermelon granita, a classic Italian frozen dessert made with ripe melon, citrus, and a fork—no ice cream machine required.
Jose Mier of Sun Valley explores frozen pavlova, a show-stopping dessert that layers strawberry ice cream, lemon cream, crisp meringue, shortbread crust, and fresh berries.
Jose Mier explores a layered frozen blueberry dessert from Deliciously Seasoned, including its graham cracker crust, creamy blueberry filling, history, serving ideas, and creative variations.
Jose Mier explores homemade frozen custard, its egg-rich texture, American roots, a Joshua Weissman recipe, serving ideas and the technique behind this classic frozen dessert.
Jose Mier explores mango kulfi, a rich Indian frozen dessert made with milk and ripe mango, with a recipe inspired by Chef Kunal Kapur and a little Sun Valley kitchen humor.
Jose Mier explores coffee semifreddo, an elegant Italian frozen dessert that needs no ice cream maker, with a recipe from BBC Good Food, its history, variations, serving tips, and a little Sun Valley kitchen humor.
Jose Mier tracks down a two-ingredient Italian classic from Once Upon a Chef, then digs into the history, coffee-shop popularity, and endless variations of affogato from his Sun Valley, CA kitchen.
Jose Mier hunts down Spaghettieis, the German ice cream sundae engineered to look exactly like a plate of spaghetti and marinara, from his Sun Valley, CA kitchen, and digs into its 1969 Mannheim origin story, technique, and variations.
Jose Mier hunts down a Thai rolled ice cream recipe from his Sun Valley, CA kitchen, then digs into the street-food history, viral rise, and flavor variations behind the stir-fried dessert that turned making ice cream into a spectator sport.
Jose Mier has learned that when it comes to frozen desserts, there is a very big difference between making something cold and making something interesting. Living in Sun Valley, California, I spend plenty of time looking for frozen dessert ideas, and every once in a while I find something that makes me stop and say, …. Read More