M.H. and I have had a couple of things we kind of wanted to buy but were not willing to pay real money for. So when he came home from Mik's swim practice yesterday morning and mentioned he'd seen a bunch of garage sales going on, we decided to head out on the off-chance we'd get lucky.
We didn't find what we were hoping for, but we did get lucky. I got two cute necklaces and a bracelet for less than $10, plus eight rolls of barely-used wrapping paper for a quarter each. M.H. spent $2 on a drain snake and a stocking stuffer for next Christmas. Woo-hoo!
Then we went to Costco, where I spotted the item that had, in the past hour, morphed from something I kinda sorta wanted to something I really, really wanted: an ice cream maker. A new one was cheaper than I was expecting—about the cost of two trips to our favorite ice cream place, in fact. We were on a bargain high already, so I tossed it in the cart. Woo-hoo!
Our first creation today was a batch of strawberry sorbet. It has a ton of sugar and I'm not deluding myself that it's in any way good for anyone, but it was pretty tasty. There are lots of healthy-fat-and-low-sugar things that I can make with my new toy, of course, and that's the ultimate plan. But I wanted to make sure that at least the first batch went over really well before springing coconut-milk-and-avocado mint chocolate chip on anyone.
oooh, let me know how that is. We have an ice cream maker, but we rarely use it.
ReplyDeleteVery Berry Ice Cream
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½ packate frozen organic mixed berries
1c apple juice
1 banana
Variation: Peaches or nectarines instead of cantaloupe.
Strawberry Pineapple Sorbet
1-10 oz. bag frozen strawberries
½C orange juice or soy milk
4 slices dried pineapple, unsweetened and unsulphured
3 pitted dates
1c fresh strawberries, sliced
Blend all (except fresh strawberries) serve with sliced strawberries.
Banana Walnut Ice Cream
2 ripe bananas
1/3c vanilla soy milk
1/2 oz. walnuts
Blend to creamy.
Chocolate Cherry Ice Cream
½c vanilla soy, hemp or almond milk
1T natural cocoa powder
4 dates, pitted
1½c dark sweet frozen cherries
Blend all (except ½ the cherries) until smooth creamy. Add remaining cherries.
Variations: berries, bananas
Peach Freeze
1 ripe banana
3 peaches or nectarines, peeled and pitted
2 medjool dates or 4 deglet noor dates, pitted
¼c vanilla soy, hemp, or almond milk
1/8t. cinnamon
Blend all ingredients to creamy.
Cantaloupe Slush
1 cantaloupe, rind removed, seeded and cut into pieces
2c ice
6-8 medjool dates, pitted
Blend to smooth.
These were designed for a high speed blender, but I bet an ice cream maker would do a bang up job. Something to experiment with.
Yay! Thanks! I could do them in my food processor. I've used dates in place of sugar in a few other recipes, but hadn't thought to try it in ice cream.
ReplyDeleteIf you're going to do them in your food processor make sure the bananas are frozen.
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