So, I turned to my vegan friends - I have had many a very yummy recipe from them and now my ice cream craving was hard I was sent "banana icecream"
I sceptically tried it.....
you need:
around one large banana per portion
chop into discs and freeze for at least 2 hours ( I hear the longer they are in for the better) - I have tried it with overnight freezing and 5 hour freezing all worked well
freeze flat on trays - put into blender and whizz - in short bursts 30 seconds and stir and so on
you may need just a teaspoon of water if it goes to soup status you overwhizzed it pop back into freezer
you can keep this is the freezer when it's been whizzed it takes about 10 mins to get soft enough to eat.
I got a load of bananas on their sell by on Sunday so we sliced them up 5 trays worth good job we have a chest freezer!
this led us to talk about what different people eat like vegans vegetarians pescatarians etc and religions that don't allow certain things to be consumed.
I sceptically tried it.....
you need:around one large banana per portion
chop into discs and freeze for at least 2 hours ( I hear the longer they are in for the better) - I have tried it with overnight freezing and 5 hour freezing all worked well
freeze flat on trays - put into blender and whizz - in short bursts 30 seconds and stir and so on
you may need just a teaspoon of water if it goes to soup status you overwhizzed it pop back into freezer
you can keep this is the freezer when it's been whizzed it takes about 10 mins to get soft enough to eat.
I got a load of bananas on their sell by on Sunday so we sliced them up 5 trays worth good job we have a chest freezer!
this led us to talk about what different people eat like vegans vegetarians pescatarians etc and religions that don't allow certain things to be consumed.
Banana icecream is lovely, although i do add cream here, and I've made it with my homemade yoghurt too. Beautiful in smoothies too (use fruit juice tho instead of yoghurt).
ReplyDeletePlamil do lovely dairy free chocolate too, in fact it's their choclate spreed I buy because it actually tastes of chocolate and not sugar, like so many choccy spreads on the market.
hehe!!
ReplyDeleteplamil has soy in it... and guess what?
I found some great 9 bar seed bars topped with carob kids are in lurve!
not that they get a look in !
Was surprised M took to this so well D knows no different he's had real icecream once or twice C never has but she was made up - we have carnival day here soon so we'll put some of this in a little pot dust with carob and be able to eat ice cream while watching the floats go by !
I think for her feeling a little "normal" is making it easier so I never lie about the fact it's a substitute but if we're out I try to make things resemble their counterparts.