Heavenly Recipes
Kim’s Homemade Ice Cream Story by Lawrence Chatagnier Photos by Maegan Martin
Kim Zeringue 24 • Bayou Catholic • Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux • August 2022
Kim Zeringue, a native Chackbay and a resident of Thibodaux, shares her grandmother’s recipe of homemade strawberry ice cream in this month’s heavenly recipes. Kim has been working as the receptionist at the Pastoral Center since May of this year. Kim and her husband Glenn have been married for 21 years and have five children, three girls and two boys. Three of their children still live at home. Kim says her husband does most of the cooking for family gatherings. “Glenn likes to boil seafood and grill. I learned how to cook from my mom. I usually cook many of the same meals that she cooked when I was growing up. Many of the meals are basic Cajun style foods.” Kim and her husband Glenn met while they were out with friends in Thibodaux. Glenn is a turnaround planner for CF industries in Donaldsonville. He has been working on the river for the past 25 years or so. This recipe has been passed down from Kim’s grandmother, Elise, to her mother Judy; and now Kim makes the homemade ice cream for her family. “I remember sitting on the ice cream maker while my mother would crank the handle of the maker. We used to make it often. The tub was packed with ice then draped with a large towel to keep it cold. Now I make the ice cream with an electric maker. We used to add cherry vanilla or crushed pineapple to the ice cream. Now we tend to stick to the original recipe.” Kim did not grow up in the city. “I grew up in a rural area. We grew up playing outside in the yard. We played until the streetlights would come on at night. I was an only child. I had a dog named Renee, a white poodle which we owned from the time I was four for about 14 years.” She has a fond memory of the day she got her pet poodle. “I used to look at the animals in the pet store at the
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