National Ice Cream Day - July 16th

Did you know that July 16th is National Ice Cream Day?

Back in 1984, President Reagan had officially declared July as National Ice Cream Month and July 15^th as the National Ice Cream Day. Since then, it is celebrated on the third Sunday of July in Canada!

Summer days are to be celebrated with your favourite frozen treat, which is why Baskin-Robbins has gone ahead and shared its Top 5 Flavour Combinations, so that Canadians can get the most out of their National Ice Cream Day!

Which pairing would you try first? See below for delicious inspiration!

FREE POLAR PIZZA Ice Cream from Basking & Robbins

FREE Polar Pizza for the People!

One of the most eagerly awaited weekends on the annual calendar just got cooler.

Baskin-Robbins Canada's first pop-up food truck is set to hit the streets of the GTA from May 19-21.  

The pop-up truck will be serving free slices of the brand's famous

Polar Pizza to celebrate National Pizza Party Day (May 19) and the Victoria Day long weekend.

WHAT:                          The Baskin-Robbins food truck takes to the streets to serve free Polar Pizza slices! 

WHO:                             Coney, the Baskin-Robbins Mascot, along with a team of Baskin-Robbins Canada

WHEN/WHERE:            The Baskin-Robbins Polar Pizza Truck will be making stops in the following areas: 

                                 Friday May 19, 2017 (National Pizza Party Day) 

                                                Downtown Toronto   YONGE DUNDAS SQUARE

                                                Saturday May 20, 2017

                                                Hamilton

                                                Burlington Waterfront 

                                                Mississauga

                                                Brampton

                                 Sunday May 21, 2017

                                The Beaches

  

Follow the truck’s exact whereabouts on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, and through the hashtag #PolarPizzaTruck.

My Gelato filled hot summer childhood memories

The first thing I thought of when trying to think about what foods came to mind as summer foods that revisit childhood memories was Gelato.



 So it was nice to see that something from our childhood still remains the same.  On hot days or on the odd occasion during the summer one of my friends dad would pile a bunch of us kids into the car and drive us to Nino D'Aversa Bakery for some Gelato.  We didn't wait for an ice cream truck because we lived on a main street that Ice Cream trucks couldn't stop on.   So when we wanted ice cream we either got it from the convenience or grocery store or we got the good stuff once in a while at the Bakery.  That was the fastest way to make a bunch of kids happy and quiet.  As long as we were stuffing our faces full of Gelato we were content.  I think that's still true to this day for me.  I think my all time favourite food is Italian Food because not only does it remind me of hanging out at my friends houses when I was a kid but it's made with simple, fresh ingredients that bring out the purest flavours of the foods.
Ice Cream or Gelato is still one of my favourite foods to this day.  
For this post I stopped into  
Nino D'Aversa Bakery to get a Gelato and contemplate why I love it so much and appreciate that the place I went to as a kid is still the same as it was as I was a kid.  They did a little expansion a few years ago but it's basically still the same.
When I was a kid i think I used to get the lemon and chocolate flavours, but now I have switched from chocolate to coffee flavoured.  This Gelato is pure flavour.  The lemon tastes like a freshed squeezed lemon with a bit of sugar and the coffee flavour just tastes like you put a cappuccino in the freezer.
It's interesting that so many years later my friend's daughter now works at another Nino D'Aversa location.  Her grandfather is the one who drove us to get the Gelato's all summer long.  I hope that one day she carries on the tradition of taking a bunch of kids there for Gelato.   I don't have any kids to take there but if I did I most certainly would.