Day 27

Day Twenty-seven and I still think ice cream is pretty heavenly. Truly. And now I'm on a new kick as I experiment with home-made ice creams. I like the idea they don't have any preservatives and are rich with flavor and have a good texture as well as being fairly simple to make. More than popping something in the micro or popping a top on an ice cream carton, but still fairly simple and the machine does all the churning.

A comment was made about the avocado ice cream. It's rather an acquired taste and grows on you. It's hard to explain how a slightly sweet, slightly peppery hot frozen dessert can be good. Well at first I thought I'll never make this again, but it was definitely better after freezing overnight and I got where I liked it better with each subsequent serving. I do want to experiment making it without the sugar--then I think it would really be excellent, though it may need the sugar for it to freeze correctly or something.

I stirred up the ingredients for the banana ice cream and it's chilling overnight and will churn tomorrow evening. The bananas in freezer worked great. The skins were dark brown when I pulled them out and I let them thaw a bit until slightly mush to the touch. Then they easily peeled and I popped them in a bowl and mushed them up and added it to the custard like mixture of
1-1/2 c. milk
2 eggs
2/3 c sugar
1-1/2 tbs. flour
pinch of salt
Be careful not to boil it or the eggs will start to scramble and who would want sweet scrambled eggs--perhaps those avocado ice cream lovers.
After the smooshed bananas (3 small or 2 large) are stirred in, add a tsp. vanilla extract and 1 c. of whipping cream.
Then it all chills overnight to be added to your favorite auto churn ice cream maker.
I'm going bananas to try it tomorrow--something to look forward to. I'm still excited when I discover a great new ice cream flavor, though right now I'm trying to be a bit economical and use up those partial containers in the deep freeze.

Four more days. Ya hear that all you who voted me to fall off the ice cream cart? I'm really going to do this! Is it ice cream history?

Speaking of history, I didn't realize July was National Ice Cream month until about mid-way through the month. Thank you for dialing me in--you know who you are? That makes it even cooler (no pun intended) to do the Ice Cream Diet during National Ice Cream month. It's also the International Year of the Potato--do they make potato ice cream? Guess one could try--perhaps adding a mashed potato mixture to an ice cream recipe. Perhaps my brain has gone in the deep freeze?

More frozen feats as the diet churns on . . .