Cheerio Milk Ice Cream

One of the elements about cooking that I love is being able to communicate a feeling/emotion/memory with a single bite. When you take a familiar ingredient, or flavor, and alter it in a way that connects with someone in a nostalgic way. As shown in the movie Ratatoille, the single bite of the ratatoille dish brings the egomaniac food critic back to his childhood in France eating something that gave him a sense of safety, of family, of comfort. It broke down his barriers and made him remember the entire reason he is who he is. With that being said, there are hundreds of flavors that I connect with on a personal level, that bring me back to either my childhood or another point in my life. One of them being Honey Nut Cheerios. Eating a bowl of honey nut cheerios every morning, and when I was done, savoring the leftover cereal flavored milk. I was trying to think of a way I could manipulate this flavor sensation and present it in a way that would be entirely unfamiliar, yet itchingly familiar at the same time. Ice cream. The dessert is still being worked out, but I am going to isolate the components of honey nut cheerios and rebuild them into a dessert. Starting with the star, the cheerio milk ice cream. Honey will be on the plate. A tuile or cracker or cookie made from pulverized cheerios, pecans, almonds. There are plenty of possibilities and I can't wait to see the finished product. MMM Cheerios.