Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream

So while Nicole and I were making the strawberry jam and the biscuits, I mentioned that the jam is also really good on homemade vanilla ice cream as a topping. So we then we had to make vanilla ice cream. We sort of followed our own "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" gustatory logic for the whole evening. It was delicious. We opted to try a new recipe we found online, and decided to add vanilla bean, since I had some on hand. Here's what we ended up with. If you have an ice cream maker in your cabinet somewhere, you should pull it out and give this recipe a try.

Vanilla Ice Cream

Here's What You Need
4 Cups of Half & Half
1 Can of Sweetened Condensed Milk
2 Tablespoons of Vanilla
1/2 Vanilla Bean, seeds scraped out (optional)

Here's What You Do
1. Mix Sweetened Condensed Milk and Half & Half. Mix in Vanilla. If you're adding the scraped out vanilla bean, do that too.
2. Pour into your ice cream maker (I have this one with a cold bowl)
3. Turn on.
4. Enjoy with homemade strawberry jam or the toppings of your dreams.