After being out of school, both as a student and a teacher, I don’t wish for snow. I already work from home; so I don’t get snow days. What I get is snowed in, which means that after a long day at work, I don’t get the mental and physical salvation of exercising with other like-minded people.
As a matter of fact, the biggest treat this time around was Mom making snowcream. Never use the first-fallen snow, which conventional wisdom says is full of air pollution, nor the yellow snow. The best quality is the last-fallen fluffy snow.
Since we had plenty of precipitation forewarning, Mom made sure she had the ingredients to make snowcream: vanilla extract, sugar, and sweetened condensed milk. All she needed me to do was gather the final ingredient.
She actually thought I was going to get snow off the patio table…and risk a slip and fall going down those patio steps?! Instead I remained on level ground while carefully padding out to lob two humongous scoops of snow off the hood of her car, which was more than enough.
Mom whipped up that delicious dessert like a pro. Although we don’t often get snow like this, it’s wonderful to commemorate the rare snowfall with an edible, seasonal ingredient.
Don’t let the container fool you. No Cool Whip was used in the making of snowcream. Just a reminder of the ubiquitous plastic containers that we repurpose for just such occasion.
I paired my snowcream with a brownie and Malbec. Malbec with chocolate is my long time favorite dessert, especially dark chocolate. The brownie and snowcream went well together, but I cannot really say that Malbec and ice cream can ever be a good pairing.
There’s a reason one doesn’t normally pair ice cream with wine. Nonetheless, I took one for the team.