Sweet Stuff

SQUIRRELING AROUND: Here were are on Tuesday, still playing catch up from last Friday. 

Friday was a rainy day, but our morning was made brighter by a fun field trip to a local gelato establishment. 

I'll let Annabelle tell you more about it. 

Friday at Nutty Squirrel Gelato in Magnolia, I learned how gelato is made, what differentiates it from ice cream, and why they use fresh ingredients.

Nutty Squirrel is a family-owned business with three locations- Maple Valley, Phinney Ridge, and the Magnolia location we went to. The store has a pleasant atmosphere, although it's rather small. They slow-churn small batches of gelato from milk that are shipped from Smith Brothers farms at most 48 hours after the cows were milked, resulting in the freshest gelato possible.

They gave us samples of some unflavored gelato that finished churning as we walked into the room, which tasted like delicious, creamy milk. Afterwards, we got a small lesson on what gelato means ("frozen" in Italian) and why they're dedicated to using little no no artificial ingredients. They allowed us to decorate our own small bowls of vanilla gelato and everyone got free coupons for one free regular-sized scoop whenever we wanted! Nutty Squirrel gelato was great experience and I recommend trying their gelato - it's delicious, and you help support a local business!

I loved how these cones were artfully arranged, and the (fake) spilled ice cream prompted many a smile from our field trip group.

 A couple of tasty looking flavors ...

Below is a very pleased CJ with his creation.

 And Annabelle was plenty happy with hers, too!