{"id":2926,"date":"2014-07-07T08:07:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T13:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2017-06-17T20:59:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T01:59:08","slug":"this-weeks-best-bite-waffle-cone-with-brambleberry-crisp-bangkok-peanut-jenis-splendid-ice-creams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/07\/this-weeks-best-bite-waffle-cone-with-brambleberry-crisp-bangkok-peanut-jenis-splendid-ice-creams\/","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s Best Bite: Waffle cone with brambleberry crisp &#038; Bangkok peanut, Jeni&#8217;s Splendid Ice Creams"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2927\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jenisbrambleberrycrispbangkokpeanut.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jenisbrambleberrycrispbangkokpeanut.jpg\" alt=\"Brambleberry crisp and Bangkok peanut ice cream, Jeni&#039;s\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2927\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waffle cone with brambleberry crisp ice cream, Bangkok peanut ice cream, and salty graham gravel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Why it&#8217;s this week&#8217;s Best Bite:<\/strong> Based in Columbus, Ohio, Jeni&#8217;s Splendid Ice Creams is one of the most highly regarded artisanal ice cream brands in the country. Although the Chicago scoop shop has been open on Southport since last fall, I hadn&#8217;t visited until this past weekend \u2013 but what better day than the Fourth of July to partake in the rich American tradition of ice-cream eating? It was pretty thrilling to see all the creative, seasonal varieties I&#8217;d long admired in pints to instead be available for sampling, with an employee eager to describe the nuances of each flavor in nearly the same kind of detail that a sommelier would use in describing a wine. I was very pleased with the two flavors I chose for my waffle cone: the <a href=\"https:\/\/jenis.com\/flavors\/ice-creams\/brambleberry-crisp\/\" title=\"Brambleberry crisp\">brambleberry crisp<\/a> was laced with juicy blackberry jam and oat streusel, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/jenis.com\/flavors\/ice-creams\/bangkok-peanut\/\" title=\"Bangkok peanut\">Bangkok peanut<\/a> mimicked savory pad Thai and curry via accents of toasted coconut and cayenne. Together, they formed a complex, frozen version of a peanut butter and jelly, topped off with <a href=\"https:\/\/jenis.com\/flavors\/toppings\/salty-graham-gravel\/\" title=\"Salty graham gravel\">salty graham gravel<\/a> for even more crunch. Jeni&#8217;s has officially joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/this-weeks-best-bite-sashimi-bibimbap-en-hakkore-and-gelato-black-dog-gelato\/\" title=\"This week\u2019s Best Bite: Sashimi bibimbap, En Hakkore, and gelato, Black Dog Gelato\">Black Dog Gelato<\/a> atop of my list of favorite creamy treats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The details:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/jenis.com\/scoop-shops\/southport\/\" title=\"Jeni's\">Jeni&#8217;s Splendid Ice Creams<\/a>, 3404 N. Southport Ave., Chicago. <\/p>\n<p>[googlemaps width=300 height=300]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why it&#8217;s this week&#8217;s Best Bite: Based in Columbus, Ohio, Jeni&#8217;s Splendid Ice Creams is one of the most highly regarded artisanal ice cream brands in the country. Although the Chicago scoop shop has been open on Southport since last fall, I hadn&#8217;t visited until this past weekend \u2013 but what better day than the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2179],"tags":[1347,1346,1350,1349,269,621,643,1344,644,676,1351,1348,1345,1352],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-bites-2","category-chicago","tag-bangkok-peanut","tag-best-ice-cream-in-chicago","tag-brambleberry-crisp","tag-cayenne-pepper","tag-chicago","tag-ice-cream","tag-jenis","tag-jenis-chicago","tag-jenis-splendid-ice-creams","tag-lakeview","tag-salty-graham-gravel","tag-savory-ice-cream","tag-southport","tag-waffle-cone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3014,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/3014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}