Monday, April 5, 2010

I Scream!


It's warm and sunny out, which means the ice cream and icey stands are opening! But alas, if you are sticking with the paleo diet you will have a hard time finding an icey treat to eat out there that's not packed with tons of sugar.

Look no further.

Make your own one-ingredient ice cream at home. It's literally BANANAS. Apparently this is a recipe that is very popular with the vegans but I'm just now discovering it. I found it here. All you need to do is freeze chopped up bananas for a couple of hours. Then put them in a blender or food processor until you've made a creamy consistency. You can add whatever you like (peanut butter, vanilla, honey, cocoa powder, etc.) I put a spoon full of almond butter, vanilla extract, and walnuts in mine and it was so delicious. The picture above (not mine) is the result of re-freezing the blended frozen bananas and then taking a scooper to it to make it look even more like ice cream. This is something that you should enjoy fast because if you let it melt it will just become gooey bananas, which is delicious but no longer ice creamy.

Apparently this process also works with fruits like mamey and mango. I bet it would also work with avocado too. The key is the fat content in these fruits that make it that creamy consistency. To make it local, maybe you could use paw paw from the forest!

Try this. You will like it.