It's been a while...and we all scream for ice cream

I cannot believe my last post was in June.  Boy does time fly when you're having fun.  I have found a few new places and visited some old ones too.  Today is the first day of autumn...my favorite season here in CLE.  There's the cooler weather, the high school football games complete with the marching bands, and the beautiful fall leaves.  I can't forget warm cider, local orchard apples, and Browns football games.  One of my favorite parts of autumn is pumpkin beer.  I love tasting all the different breweries and picking my coveted beer of the season only to selectively forget and start again next fall.

Something I absolutely love any time of the year is ice cream.  My favorite ice cream in Cleveland is Mitchell's Homemade.

http://www.mitchellshomemade.com/

Two brothers, Pete and Mike, started the company in Rocky River and they have additional locations in Westlake, Solon, and Beachwood.  I read on facebook that they recently purchased the old abandoned Moda night club on West 25th in the Ohio City area and will turn that into another retail location and their kitchen.  While some businesses move out of Cleveland, others like Mitchell's are moving in.

They make their own flavors and some of them they use local ingredients when available like Lake Erie Creamery goat cheese, strawberries, etc.  Speaking of Lake Erie Creamery, if you haven't tried their goat cheese, you must.  I love it.  I could eat it plain.  The cheese is smooth, creamy, and never dried out.  Believe it or not people, but Lake Erie Creamery makes and delivers their own cheese right from CLE.  They are located at 3167 Fulton Rd. in Cleveland.  Because I am the only goat cheese lover in my house, I order a little bit from a vendor at the Westside Market.  Unbelievable goat cheese.

http://www.lakeeriecreamery.com/

I digress.  The ice cream flavor I like the best is the Mint Chocolate Chunk.  It is natural mint with huge chunks of chocolate.  I also like banana cream pie, key lime pie, chocolate peanut butter pretzel yogurt, coffee chocolate chunk, and strawberry.  When my husband used to travel, I would have ice cream dinners.  He doesn't travel very often these days, which is good for the family and good for my waistline.

Here's a picture of Dudo having his first taste of Mitchell's ice cream with his Aunt.  Being a banana lover, he had the banana cream pie. copyright JBM.  Do not use without express permission.


HOLY MOSES...I mean SWEET MOSES.
I also had the wonderful pleasure of having an ice cream lunch this summer.  My intern, Jackie Stripes, took me to Sweet Moses Soda Fountain & Ice Cream Shop.  It's located at 6800 Detroit Ave. in the revitalized Gordon Square Art District area of Cleveland.  http://www.sweetmosestreats.com/ The inside of the ice cream parlor reminds me of the stories my Grandma used to tell me.  I bet if she was still here, she would say it looks pretty darn close.

My picture does not do the place justice!  As you can see from the picture to the right, I ordered the Shoreway Sundae made with one scoop of coffee, I substituted another with the Belgium Chocolate, hot fudge, toffee pieces, nuts, whipped cream.  It was heavenly.  I will definately come back for another taste.  Everyone who has gone there loves it.  Maybe if I wasn't so infactuated with Mitchell's, I would go there more often.