Sadness & Confusion

Hmm, well now i've received a second email from Capogiro with a totally different flavor listing for 13th St today. 20th St seems to be the same. Was the first email an upcoming list for tomorrow, sent out by accident? Was this just to play with my already-insane Aquarian mind? Booness.

The Best Flavor List Ever

So i'm checking my email on the bus in transit to New York and i see the daily flavor list for 13th Street. My, how i want to turn around! Looks like we'll need to bring the big cooler tonight. (I've starred the ones i'm certainly tasting, double stars for the pinters!)

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Flavors of the Day for our 13th Street Location:

* Baby Kiwi
Hairless and grapesized. It does not sound appetizing, but it is incredible. Sometimes they grow in Lancaster County. Really.

** Caped Gooseberry
Member of the tomatillo family. Subtle, not too sweet.

* Cardamomo
Cardamom. That spicy spice we love so much!

* Champagne
French champagne sorbetto. Light and crisp.

* Cinnamon Basil
Made with Lancaster County Cinnamon Basil, Spicy!

* Cioccolato Amarena
Rich chocolate gelato layered with wild sour cherries.

* Cioccolato Peperocini
Rich chocolate blended with spicy jalapeno.

Drunken Pears
Lancaster County Bosc Pears poached in Valpolicella

Elderberry with Sambuca
Elderberry gelato infused with Sambuca.

** Fico Oro
Golden Fig, sweet and mild

* Fragola con Dragoncello
Lancaster County Strawberries with local tarragon

Fragola con Pernod

* Kiwano Melon
Those freaky looking yellow horned melons with orange tips. The flesh is chartreuse green and extremely sweet.

** Lavender Stracciatella
Yay!

Lime

** Lychee

* Macintosh Apple
(from NY State and Lancaster County)

* Maracuja
Passionfruit

* Mora Gelato
Lancaster County Blackberries.

Nino Banana

** Peanut
House roasted peanuts

Pinoli
Smoky pine nuts, toasted and blended smooth.

* Pluot
Sometimes called a Dinosaur Plum. High in Vitamin A and actually a mix of 3/4 plum and 1/4 apricot.

Rosemary Honey Goat Milk
Lancaster County goat's milk infused with Lansdale rosemary sweetened by New Jersey buckwheat honey.

* Tellicherry Peppercorn

Uva Cremisi
Beautiful crimson table grapes from Chile.

* Wasabi

Neo-giro: classics and good-byes

I do enjoy the game of recreating other foods out of gelato. In the past, we've tried the pb&j, pasta sauce, cannoli. Now, I went for the classic ice-cream combo: Neapolitan. I selected Cioccolato Scuro (bittersweet chocolate), Fragola con Panna (strawberries gelato), and Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla.



The Vanilla and Strawberry played well with each other. I suppose I could have gone with a Strawberry sorbetto so I could have mixed in an even lighter texture against the Vanilla, but I do prefer the gelato. But the dark chocolate, while good, overpowered the other two. Cioccolato Scuro is a bulldozer. I should have remembered that and gone with a lighter chocolate.

I would definitely do a similar combo again: Cioccolato, Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla, and Fragola (sorbetto). It's a childhood favorite that's all grown up.

I mentioned good-byes. Adam, one of our favorites, has left the building. He's off to Greenland or Iceland or somewhere else that is very cold and ends in "-land". Since he's headed to such a frigid environment, we can only assume he is on a quest... for it is only in such a tundra that he and gelato can become one... a Man-Gelato or Gelatoman. We don't really know what he'll do once he is of tasty, yummy dessert, but who are we to stomp on someone else's dreams. Regardless, we wish him well and hope that no polar bears eat Gelatoman.

Fragola Frenzy

Last night a bunch of us met up at 13th St to celebrate the LP year of Edward. It was quite crowded and we ended up at 4 small tables instead of the 2 large ones in back, but it was still fun and delicious. Z Luna picked her flavors based on color (Pistachio and Burnt Sugar) while Sol ordered his usual Chocolate; the adults sampled many spoonfuls unlike the determined children. Strangely, or perhaps not so as they are essentially long-lost twins, A and O ended up with the exact same combination of Champagne Mango sorbetto and Fragola gelato! The Fragola sorbetto was absolutely incredible. I think it was perhaps the best batch i've ever tasted! I did enjoy the Fragola gelato as well, but the sorbetto was much tastier in my opinion. Yay for summer flavors!

Beautiful Spring Day

Today was a unexpectedly beautiful spring day and all I could think was.....with all this sun I wish I could have some capogiro. Any new flavors popping up in Philly? It doesn't look like the website's been updated since March. Have the berry flavors arrived yet?

Cherry Blossom = Awesome?

Last night on my way home, i stopped by 13th St to sample Cherry Blossom. The little spoon of it was interesting - super perfumey but with a bitter ending - definitely not what i expected, not that i knew what to expect though! I ordered a small cup of half Cherry Blossom, half Cioccolato Scuro, but brought it home to sick Edward so he could have some later. I'm really looking forward to eating that small cup with him because i want to try more Cherry Blossom to see if it grows on me, or if i decide it's just okay. Generally, i love the flowery/herby/citrusy/unusual flavors the most, so perhaps this will totally go on the Top 10 list?

Pawpaw close cousin- Cherimoya

Today Jeannie noticed that Cherimoya was on the daily menu and said, "Hey that's something we haven't had!" We did a quick Wiki search and there it was Cherimoya is in the same family as PAWPAW. I know I keep harping on it but that fruit was eaten by native americans long before America was America and was not grown commercially for a long time until it recently started again in Pennsylvania. It has been described as being a cross between a mango and a banana. Doesn't that sound like something to get obsessed about! Anyway, to 20th Street we go after calling and verifying that in fact was there. In the case they had a specimen as they usually do. It looks like a Guanabana- which resembles an artichoke. The interior flesh is white and spongy feeling almost like foamy. The seeds are the same dark large seeds, the Cherimoya was similar. They are all in fact in the same family of fruits. The Cherimoya had a banana taste mingled with a tartness sort of like green mango. It also had a bit of grit from the actual fruit and a tannin like drying of the mouth. All in all I really like it. We had it paired with Honey Tangerine. It was a good pairing, the sweet and tart and smoothness of the two of them went well. I can't wait to try Pawpaw. I will not lose hope!!