Comfort food you can buy for less than $5, but only now

I am happy to say that I don't buy a lot of crap food but I am also happy to say that I LOVE ice cream and sometimes buy it.  Right now, in this season of .... autumn?  Winter?  whatever, you can find Haagen Dazs Peppermint Bark Ice Cream and you should go out right now and find it.  Now. Stop reading this, go out and get some. 

You open the lid and it looks like plain vanilla ice cream with bits of stuff.  Fine, a lot of ice cream looks like that. But let it set out for about 5 minutes.  Then scoop some out with a small spoon and eat it. The white part that looks like plain vanilla ice cream is rich and creamy (the label says it's white chocolate ice cream, could be, but whatever it is, it's really good) and then there are the bits. Tiny, crunchy bits of peppermint candy and some chunks of chocolate peppermint bark.  It sounds ordinary.  It is not ordinary.

This is not the kind of ice cream you put in a bowl.  (Hmm, other than plain vanilla ice cream, and only so you can pour homemade butterscotch sauce on it, which is here, and I have told you this before, please pay attention: https://smittenkitchen.com/2009/12/ridiculously-easy-butterscotch-sauce/) there is no need to put any ice cream in a bowl.) This is the kind of ice cream you either sit on the couch with a mate and share (well, one person will be more piggy than the other, that's a given) and you will both make those little piglet noises as you eat the entire pint, or you eat it alone, standing in the kitchen, a trashy novel on the kitchen counter, lights down low, just eating slowly and reading your novel until you look at the pint of ice cream and realize you have consumed more than half of it and you are not even one tiny bit guilty.

That's the kind of ice cream it is. Trust me. Find it, buy it. It will be gone by Christmas.  A lot of things could be gone by Christmas, so we need to take pleasure in what we can, as soon as we can. 

Tomorrow the tale of the Thanksgiving Gravy from last year, found in my freezer and it's amazing restorative qualities.  Plus an excellent recipe for soup.  Tune in. Don't be late.

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