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chocolate and orange is an old combination which i never believed in. but last sunday i decided to throw orange zest into the milk/cream i was boiling for this ice cream. the recipe is dorie's bittersweet ganache ice cream.
orange zest in the milk/cream made it taste really bitter, and the smell was only just faint, so i didn't know if adding the zest was the right thing to do. but after tempering with the sabayon, the eggs seemed to tone down the bitterness and rounded out the orange flavour.
the ganache was leftover, frozen for almost a month. i had to do much scaling of the original ice cream recipe to suit it for the amount of ganache i had.
i just like to watch the ice cream maker churn away. from thick gloppy custard, it freezes slowly to light and fine-grained texture. the ice cream this time was super success. texture and taste all up there.