Desert Candy حلويات الصحراء: Day 9: Avocado Ice Cream. Attack of the big green monster, run, run for your lives!
Ahem, sorry about that. Obviously, ice cream making is going to my head. That big green blob in the picture up there? Let me explain. When I first got the idea to do an ice cream challenge, I immediately started brainstorming ideas. But then my friend Jesse heard I had an avocado ice cream recipe, and could he please, please come over and make it with me. But back to the ice cream. Avocado Ice CreamAn ice cream for avocado lovers, and an easy and tasty one at that. 3 medium avocados3/4 cup sugar1 cup (8 oz) sour cream1/2 cup heavy creama good squeeze of lime plus it's zestpinch salt 1.
Lighten up: For a lighter version, you can use half-and-half or whole milk in place of the heavy cream. Vegan Coconut Almond Chocolate Chip Ice Cream — Recipes from The Kitchn. I fondly remember the days when Ben & Jerry's made Coconut Almond Fudge ice cream by the pint — my parents would buy it and hide it towards the back of the freezer so we wouldn't know it was there, but I'd always manage to tuck into it quietly and slowly so they wouldn't notice.
When Ben & Jerry's discontinued it, I eventually discovered a natural foods brand made with coconut milk, but it just wasn't quite as velvety and delicious. So imagine my delight when I was at our local scoop shop here in Seattle the other day and stumbled across a Vegan Coconut Almond Chip ice cream that was spot-on. I devoured my cone, asked a lot of questions, and came home to experiment in our kitchen. Vegan Strawberry Swirl Ice Cream — Recipes from The Kitchn. We had a legitimate heat wave in Seattle last week — which, as you can probably guess, isn't all that common.
I didn't feel much like cooking, and instead found myself reaching for simple salads, popsicles, and sparkling water — with a few scoops of ice cream thrown in for good measure. That's how the idea for this recipe was born. We had sweet strawberries from the farmers market, and instead of going out for ice cream cones, we made our own and lingered in the backyard. How To Make Sorbet With Any Fruit — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn. When you have a glut of fresh summer fruit, sorbets are the answer.
You don't need a recipe — just a basic template to follow and a little creativity. Strawberry-peach sorbet? Mint-infused watermelon sorbet? Raspberry-rosé sorbet? Yes, let's make all of these this summer. Homemade Fruit Sorbet: Watch the Video Fruit + Sugar = Sorbet Sorbets are a simple combination of fresh fruit or fruit juice with sugar. The easiest way to add sugar is to make a simple sugar syrup.
Making Perfectly Smooth Sorbet Sugar plays a larger roll in the sorbet than just sweetening the fruit juice. How To Make Creamy Ice Cream with Just One Ingredient! — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn. A few years ago I shared my favorite magic trick in the kitchen: creamy ice cream made with just one ingredient.
Yes, that's right — just one ingredient, and no ice cream maker needed! What is this one magic ingredient that can be whipped into rich and silky ice cream, with no additional dairy, sweeteners, or ingredients needed whatsoever? Watch the Video! Error: Error loading playlist: No playable sources found The Magic of Bananas If you guessed BANANA, congratulations! "That's the sort of thing you discover," she sighed, "when all your friends are vegan, gluten-free, dairy-allergic, and you're on a no-added-sugar diet. " Her discovery, it turned out, was one that has been known for a long time in health food circles (although still magically new to us).
Lovely fruit popsicles for all seasons. Fruit Popsicles Popsicles are not just for summer.
Fruit popsicles are welcome even during cold winter. Get a set or two of popsicle molds from Walmart or the Dollar Store. Chop up your favorite colorful fruits into little cubes, put them into the mold and fill with juice. Best juice for this purpose: orange or pineapple. Gluten free magazine september 2014 by yum. gluten free magazine. Green Tea Coconut Popsicles. Creamy Lavender Honey. Strawberry Rose. Pineapple Mango Cayenne. Peach Melba. Citrus Espresso Chocolate Fudge. One Ingredient Grape Sorbet Recipe. Grape sorbet is a healthy, naturally sweet, and almost instant dessert made by blending frozen grapes.633 Ever since I was a little girl, frozen grapes have been one of my favorite desserts.
My girls love them now too. I was telling a friend the other day that grapes become incredibly sweet and the texture inside is like a little bite of sorbet. Then I started thinking... what if I blended these little sorbet bites into an ice cream-like treat! I wasn't sure this was actually going to work. 633 I tossed some of our frozen grapes in the food processor and blended away until there were not any more grape skin chunks. Healthy and Simple Coconut Ice Cream Recipe {Vegan} After we opened that coconut, we enjoyed some of the flesh plain, but got a little bored with it.
I threw some left over pieces in the food processor with some coconut milk, agave syrup, and stevia, and voila - I had a healthy ice cream recipe. How to make healthy popsicles.